Thanks, Harvey! I've been a member here for several years, under one email address or another, though I don't actually have a SIEG mini-mill. My mini-mill is an Atlas horizontal mill. Larger than the SIEG, but not really large, for old American iron. A lot of the stuff you do on the Chinese mill can also be done on the Atlas,just rotated 90 degrees, and limited to an MT2 spindle for tooling. Barry seems to have decided to abandon the group. Do YOU mind if I save as much as I can on the groups.io Mini-Mills group I started? There are 28 of your members that have joined me there to try to make this work, so far. I understand being tired of something, and wanting to move on to other things, but there are people here like myself who value the work you guys did. I'm a long way from Tacoma, so I took a class in machining here in Oklahoma City, started about 4-1/2 years ago. I'm not likely to do this long enough to become a professional, but this and other groups like it kept me going through some pretty bad times, and I'd really like to keep it going. I'm not Barry, I'm not a professional machinist, but I've been keeping some other groups going at least limping along, and in a couple of cases, doing OK. And I'm not burned out on managing a group yet. I've also been a member of some groups that lost their owner, mostly the mini-lathe groups owned by JW Early, who died unexpectedly a few years back. The new group I started at https://groups.io/g/Mini-Mills already has two owners, including myself, and will shortly have at least a couple of moderators as well, so no one has to burn out trying to keep the group going.
Bill in OKC
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