Went to visit Mike and Justin at Conestoga USA in Pottstown yesterday. As an old time machine tool inspector it was a real treat to see the big changes made in the 25 years I have been away from machine shop work. The kind of things we used to dream about doing are now routine procedures ....... The new digital age, like science fiction but it is all real.
Thanks to Mike and Justin for the tour of their great shop and also for the several cartons of parts and machine bits they donated to my expanding inventory of "art supplies". The first time Mike saw one of my "love machines" (he saw No.21 titled
"Big Sister") he smiled and remarked....."You don't see many of these anymore". The wonderful goodies I hauled away insure that No.22 will have that same mix of old and new that make my machines do what they do.
And thanks in advance to Justin who has taken on the task of locating the wheels that will allow the oversize No. 22 to be moved about without the help of a half dozen big strong guys. I moved the piece and set it up on horses yesterday and it was more like moving a piano than shuffling art work around the studio.
Looking ahead the weather for the next several days is predicted to be almost Spring like and I hope that by Monday the frame of No 22 will be finished and building the "works" of the machine can begin.
Once again.........thanks to the great guys at Conestoga.
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