Ceilidh ... "okyouaskedforit"

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"okyouaskedforit"

Hi,I bought the RT Blanking System (without the screwpress) from Rio Grande in late '85 or early'86. I have a jewelry background and was looking for a faster way to make parts . As a lot of you know , the Rio equipment is rather lame(some credit due for the screwpress which is weak but pretty functional on small flat blanks) so I had to build a decent saw , drawing on my vast (to me) experience in high school machine shop (picture Beavis and Butthead at a bandsaw). I got good at sawing dies and started doing it for a few locals and the rest, as they say, is history.
Then one day some guy named Lee (by the way he looks SEVENTY- or EIGHTY four (This is the "roast" page,right?)
called and sort of helped me pull my head out of the sand about sharing stuff. That's just not done much here in the cutthroat jewelry manufacturing culture of Albuq. N.M.
After my homemade press disasters gave out I gave in and got a B.D. and now I have 2 25 ton electrics that I use to blank out parts for people. I've made over 10,000 plain blanking dies for around 700 people and am not slowing down. I use a supermodified B.D. saw guide and lots of sawblades.
Last summer I started working with a huge manufacturer of

Fri Jun 18