Welcome to the darkside of higher education my friend!!! Long hours, frustration, driving home at 2:00am wound up from a long day. To wound up to sleep, a bottle of whiskey and some jalepeno cheese helps some nights! :] Not so much the next morning... My throatless shear is not bolted down yet either. I been pulling up every folder I can scrounge for a foot operated stand for the shrinker stretchers. Bought this used pair, look like HF returns, off of Taddswholesale on evilbay. Cost me $52.75 total for the pair. Half what I paid for one new one. Can't decide if I will return the new one or just sit on it till I've mapped out what bodies and dies work the best. I got 90% of the stand mapped out in my mind. even have the steel. Should get started tomorrow night, unless one more thing comes up... -- Mark Price Morgantown, WV 1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5 2004 Grand Cherokee Laredo, 4.7L, Quadratrac II " I realize that death is inevitable. I just don't want to be around when it happens! " -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx> > I can't even find the time to bolt our throatless shear to a table! > First class is in two weeks and I'm not prepared. I'm student and staff > and teaching this quarter. I dread it. Found the lathe has a bum > carriage screw, curriculum rewrites, and two of my classes end at 10pm > then I have an hour ride home. _______________________________________________ Amc-list mailing list Amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://splatter.wps.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/amc-list