Nice big shop! hope you fill it with fine tools fine wood work and fine cars.

Here's a tool scare story for you and Mike.Back in the sixties till mid seventies I was half owner of a machine shop. We had a contract to sharpen cutting tools for the Goodyear conveyer Belt plant in Marysville Ohio.The plant manager told my partener (he had worked there at one time) that the contract for the wooden spools that all their belts were shipped on was up for bid. We bid and got the contract which was a big contract.

We took in a third person built a pole building on his small farm and started buying industrial wood working equiptment.One tool we bought at auction was a very old five station sticker with a cabnet full of moulding cutters. As it was so old that it was flat belt driven we converted it to seperate 3 phase ele. motors for the three stations we needed and the power feed.

The spools were built from yellow pine 2x8's radiused at one edge each with a tounge and gruve so when four were air nailed together the spool had rounded coners and a square hole in the center for the belt winder shaft to fit into.

We machined cutters out of high speed steel and went into production (We bought Southern Yellow pine by the train car load).Yellow pine which the contract called for is hell on tools and we found that buy speeding up the cutters we got a better cut and they stayed sharp longer. The problem was that this old stricker was not made for the rough use we were giving it and would throw cutters! a pound of sharp tool steel coming off at high RPM's is no joke they went through the metal siding of the building like it was paper and we would find them a hundred yards out in the field.At the time being young we paid it little mind as it was a very strong money maker and we stayed out of the path of the flying tools which pretty much went in one direction...........

William Rogers.......