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Path: nntp.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Snag <Snag_one@msn.com> Newsgroups: rec.crafts.metalworking Subject: Re: Who's Working Today Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2025 15:12:17 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 40 Message-ID: <1049cik$htup$1@dont-email.me> References: <10496as$v063$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2025 20:12:06 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="1a388cb9d7a132b51ecb49ba0289e965"; logging-data="587737"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19ZMltmJatdjUc1l+4lAsqAyiyMfmMDbmw=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.9.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:EPNQ8kMXZZG6xmy5nuOAk6Ertwk= In-Reply-To: <10496as$v063$1@dont-email.me> Content-Language: en-US X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 250704-4, 7/4/2025), Outbound message On 7/4/2025 1:25 PM, Bob La Londe wrote: > I grew up in the desert 60 miles from town working in a country grocery > store. We only closed 3 days a year and the 4th of July was not one of > them. > > I promised myself when I started my own business I'd celebrate all the > holidays, and take real vacations. > > Here I am in the shop finishing second operations of a stack of molds so > I can get them shipped. Gravity cast lead molds, but one interesting > soft plastic mold I can't show anybody. > > Yesterday I got a call from a sinker maker (not one of his molds above), > who is a technically a quadriplegic. No use of his legs. Partial use > of one arm and very limited use of the other. He asked me to make a > couple custom molds for him, because making castings is his day job > every day. He casts a few tons of lead a month and wanted to expand his > offerings for his customers. I refused to put his order ahead of people > who paid first, but I am inspired to get those ahead of him done quicker > so I can get to his. I've had a friend or two tell me I am the most > driven person they have ever met (not so much anymore), but his refusal > to be literally held down by his limitations is inspiring. > > Happy 4th of July to my fellow Americans, and happy treason day to my > British friends and associates. > > I did a little weed eatin' this morning . Needed a trimmed place for the new tractor , since I'm about to tear into the front axle . Wore out bearings and leaking seals , I'll get it apart then order parts ... And while waiting for those parts I'll do some work on the JD 317 . It's got about 43 years of "stuff" sloshing around in the fuel tank and frequently blocking the fuel supply . Two or nine other things that need doing , we'll see which ones make the list . -- Snag We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that stupid people won't be offended.