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As part of a thread over on PM, there was discussion of a PM-sponsored chatroom. That got shot down, so I threw my own together real quick.
Everybody's welcome. This is meant for the more experienced crowd, home shop and professional alike, but nobody's going to get kicked because they do what they do on a 3-in-1 versus a horizontal boring mill.
nobody's going to get kicked because they do what they do on a 3-in-1 versus a horizontal boring mill.
You either misinterpreted what I said, or I wasn't clear enough. I don't have anything against Chinese gauge blocks or equipment in general. I do think keeping the discussion limited to cheap gauge blocks alone, to the exclusion of the 4500 dollar set, is not what PM is about.
I didn't respond to you on PM because I think both sides of the argument are getting ridiculous, and I couldn't fully agree with what was being said by either side by the time things got started. We have plenty of cheapy sets at work, and I don't think that's ridiculous.
Anyway, lazlo, I think you'd be a great person in the chat. Stop by sometime!
I put one on at the homemodelmachinist site but it does not get used much.
I like building sites so I make sure and add video embedding, our own gallery to host pictures and video. A video game arcade, a member map and a downloads/uploads section.
If a person is going to build a site they may as well add all the bells and whistles.
you really are full of surprises and are a breath of fresh air.
You seem to have a knack of seeing a niche or an opportunity.
P'raps you are an Engineering entrepreneur in the making!!
But yes, if it is a "go-er" you can count me in.
I like the rules you've made.
What's a go-er, and thanks for the compliment!
Many of the people who stopped by expressed great interest in continuing to show up, so hopefully enough people will decide to stay in the next week or so. My big fear is it just tapering off from lack of new people coming in after the threads fall off the forums.
I lapsed into the local (OZ) vernacular.
A "go-er" is something or someone who "gets up and goes" instead of just sitting around either doing nothing useful or talking or getting in the way etc.
Also has some connotations for some "young ladies" - often referred to a being " a bit of a go-er" or "a real go-er!!" I'll leave that to your imagination.
Is part of the OZ vernacular.