Bridgeport impeccably maintained for sale.

Garwood said:

I send my 3 germ buckets (kids) to the petri dish (schools) to maintain our viral defense through continuous improvement!

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"The Glazed Donut Monsters".....

Anyone got a mill for sale around here? I still like my ought-six vintage Pentax DSLR

I saw a YouTube video from I think Business Insider on why the Hassleblad digital were much better than other DSLR. Was very interesting.
I think the same thing applies to cell phone cameras. You folks are all talking like they are all the same in quality of image. They are VASTLY different depending on phone type and age.

As an example I have been rocking my Samsung S8+ for almost 7 years. The pictures are great, no complaints. I finally traded it in for Christmas to one that better fit my needs. I got a Samsung Z fold 4. The picture quality is staggeringly better. I don't know how to describe these things but the pictures all look like they are professionally lighted and balanced. It's amazing.

These are resized so they lose a lot of detail but I swung by the beach on the way home from Xmas ride. My old ones never had lighting like that.

Ask $2500.00 and see who bites, if they offer a bit less and your happy go for it.

About the Stanley tools, that doesn't say a lot about measuring, & a machinist with
bent fingers means I'm out because my fingers all 8 of them are still attached and work
as they were made to do & on the hi side I also have 2 thumbs still attached.

Gulf war ?puts your machinist at about 30 years old & only 2 people capable of making belt feeders

Do you think us old fuddy duddy machinists are actually have that much ignorance in us.

Fell off the wagon, sounds like you better go put him back up in the old buck board then
and continue with your plan of making AR parts.

Jaxian said:

I saw a YouTube video from I think Business Insider on why the Hassleblad digital were much better than other DSLR. Was very interesting.
I think the same thing applies to cell phone cameras. You folks are all talking like they are all the same in quality of image. They are VASTLY different depending on phone type and age.

As an example I have been rocking my Samsung S8+ for almost 7 years. The pictures are great, no complaints. I finally traded it in for Christmas to one that better fit my needs. I got a Samsung Z fold 4. The picture quality is staggeringly better. I don't know how to describe these things but the pictures all look like they are professionally lighted and balanced. It's amazing.

These are resized so they lose a lot of detail but I swung by the beach on the way home from Xmas ride. My old ones never had lighting like that.

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Those pictures look terrible. They are cell phone pictures. Notice how everything is kinda all in sorta-focus at once? Except the deck railing- That looks great. You can see the deck railing real clear. Is that what you wanted to remember about that view?

Seriously, take a DSLR with you for a day and use it. Take like .6 seconds to manually focus the thing and snap. I certainly hope you can tell the difference.

I use a Samsung S20+. Camera is not impressive at all. It's supposed to be, but it isn't.

Garwood said:

Those pictures look terrible.

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Well they are resized in Microsoft Paint from 5000 x XXXX to 1440 x fit on the message board so it destroyed the resolution that is why I mentioned it. I meant look at the color treatment and such. They look vastly better unmodified of course. I do realize that posting them here would ruin the clarity but I was talking about the exposure and colors. How the whole image was composed or, not sure of the word.

Also I pulled my motorcycle to the curb whipped out the phone, took those pictures and rode off. Not doing that with a $5k DSLR. Nor would I have wanted it around my neck for a few hours of riding in the mountains on a cold day.

My personal opinion is that 99% of the time the picture quality improvement of a DSLR over a good phone camera is not only pointless but also invisible to anyone who isn't a photographer.

I do get that a DSLR is unquestionably better. That was what that Hasselblad video thing was about. How people pay vastly more for one of those because a normal DSLR just can't match it when you know what to look for. I am just saying at this point most people don't need and can't see the difference for "normal" pictures.

Jaxian said:

I do get that a DSLR is unquestionably better. That was what that Hasselblad video thing was about.

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Hasselblad pah, quiche-eating squareheads ! Get a man's camera, made in Rochester !


(Sling one of these babies around for a day and you won't need to go to the gym that week

here's the manual in case you just found grandpa's up in the attic :


Seriously, these are pretty nice and kinda fun. And a good toy for all you jingoists with Toyota pickups ...

Also, can anyone identify the machine on page 22 ? Some sort of jig bore with a big rotary table ?

EmanuelGoldstein said:

Also, can anyone identify the machine on page 22 ? Some sort of jig bore with a big rotary table ?

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It's a SIP #4 it's an early one probably from the 1930's. Its old enough the it has two spindles (1 high speed and 1 low speed.) it has a PD5 rotary table sitting on it (600 mm)

You can tell by everything laying on the machine it's a staged photo.

SIP6A said:

It's a SIP #4 it's an early one probably from the 1930's. Its old enough the it has two spindles (1 high speed and 1 low speed.) it has a PD5 rotary table sitting on it (600 mm)

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Cool Camera came out in the 40's so 30's makes sense, was pretty new then. Smaller than yours I guess ?

SIP6A said:

You can tell by everything laying on the machine it's a staged photo.

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Well yeah but it's at Kodak, I bet they had one and took the camera back there for some nifty photos .... the rest of their plant would be fun to see. I wonder what they made these on ?

I don't have $2,500 just to look, so I will bow out and let the deep pockets inspect it. However, the comment about owning Stanley tools triggered a memory so I have to bow out with a quick video from AvE.

SIP6A said:

It's a SIP #4 it's an early one probably from the 1930's. Its old enough the it has two spindles (1 high speed and 1 low speed.) it has a PD5 rotary table sitting on it (600 mm)

You can tell by everything laying on the machine it's a staged photo.

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I worked on a similar #4 but it was a later machine. It came to the UK in the later years of the 1939-45 War. The company was doing war work for the Royal Navy and the Admiralty paid for it.
Regards Tyrone.