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| BillH | Machine Shop Burnt | ||
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Well, Saturday sucked, more for a friend of mine and his brother than me. He call this week and told their machine shop was totaled in a fire. The did "save" some machines but those will need to be totally torn down and rebuilt. All the welding equipment, Tig, Plasma cutters,etc-gone.
They had hundreds of car manuals, 1940's & up-gone. They had a lot of friends helping yesterday. I spent 7 hours spraying oven cleaner and power washing machines down. Attach file:  IMGP0720.jpg (0.00 KB) IMGP0719.jpg (0.00 KB) IMGP0721.jpg (0.00 KB) IMGP0722.jpg (0.00 KB) IMGP0723.jpg (0.00 KB) IMGP0724.jpg (0.00 KB) |
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Posted on: 2010/5/2 13:08
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| TommyT-Bone | Re: Machine Shop Burnt | ||
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Insured loss or dreams up in smoke? Sorry to hear this. Either way, it still sucks.
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Posted on: 2010/5/2 13:13
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| BillH | Re: Machine Shop Burnt | ||
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I didn't even ask, just went to work. Obviously, no one was in a happy mood but everyone had a "grim determination" look on his face. And these 2 guys are hard workers, they built the building themselves. They'll do it again. |
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Posted on: 2010/5/2 13:20
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| Vetron87 | Re: Machine Shop Burnt | ||
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American Spirit is alive and well!!! Sorry for their loss! Build it bigger and better!!
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Posted on: 2010/5/2 14:53
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| Aboatguy | Re: Machine Shop Burnt | ||
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I wish them luck in a speedy and complete rebuild....
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Posted on: 2010/5/2 16:12
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| pianoguy | Re: Machine Shop Burnt | ||
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Man, that sucks! But good on ya for helping out - I'm sure they were very grateful.
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Posted on: 2010/5/2 17:06
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| Matatk | Re: Machine Shop Burnt | ||
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Terrible loss for them. Cause of fire known yet?
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Posted on: 2010/5/2 18:30
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| X-FIRE | Re: Machine Shop Burnt | ||
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Man that sucks!!! Hope they can rebuild and make it bigger and better...Glad you could help them out BillH..
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| RickAnthony | Re: Machine Shop Burnt | ||
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Where is this at? Sorry to hear/see this... I hope they recover soon..
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Posted on: 2010/5/3 13:09
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| BillH | Re: Machine Shop Burnt | ||
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About 30 miles south of Carson City, Nv., hour's drive for me. |
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Posted on: 2010/5/3 14:19
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| biggrizzly | Re: Machine Shop Burnt | ||
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When bad things happen to good people hopefully the carma will come around and help them out!
What a shame to build a nice business and then have it burn up around you. I worked in a maching shop when I was younger and I know how expensive that stuff can be. Repairs will not be easy or possible either withought complete remanufacture of a lot of stuff. I wish them luck. |
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Posted on: 2010/5/3 14:35
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| BillH | Re: Machine Shop Burnt | ||
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Luckly, one thing Steve does is restore machine tools. He did a ground up on an old tooling grinder that was junk when he got it and brand new when he finished. A few of the machines like one of the Bridgeports I worked on came out rebuildable, all the slides and bearings feel Ok. But all the wiring, belts and anything plastic will need to be replaced. Some of the other machines are toast including 5 welders. |
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Posted on: 2010/5/3 16:33
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| vetteblondie | Re: Machine Shop Burnt | ||
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That's horrible!
Sorry to hear.... |
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Posted on: 2010/5/4 3:32
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