Yep I agree.. I'd much rather see some one local keep the thing, move it to their basement and do things on the side rather then letting the next guy bid who's job it is to cart that tool to chille or some where in south america to have some one run it for a buck an hour..hehe
That way when we have to start buiding tanks again we will not have to go to south america to do it..hehe
I think a lot of the dificulty is in the tool moving area. Moving heavy objects is both hard to do (for an individual) and expencive to pay for. Assuming you are not moving it to chille where you will make up the moving expence in the first hours pay difference..hehe
Lot of great opertunity for tooling and stuff at auctions, With my machine I got some 20+ ericson chucks, and also ended up with a cabinet full of end mills and taps for ~100 bucks. Not sure what I'm going to do with the taps but pretty sure I will never have to buy another tap for the better half of my life.
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