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I have no skills to offer but would be a buyer!

Thomas A. Sult, MD
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On Jul 3, 2009, at 2:18 AM, engineer@clear.net.nz wrote:

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> A few years ago, when I and a couple of friends wanted each to own a
> gear hobbing machine, we cooperated. One made the casting patterns
> and saw them through the local foundry, another did the heavy
> machining and I did the small parts like feedscrews and their nuts.
> It occurs to me that several handy people could combine their skills
> to produce replica Bygraves slide rules. There will surely be
> someone who knows where to access tubing in which each size nests
> snuggly in the next largest size, someone else will know how to
> produce hard-wearing replica scales, another may be prepared to turn
> the bobbins at each end and I would volunteer to do small bits of
> metalwork. The results do not have to make profits, though a little
> would be nice. Since there seem to be very few surviving Bygraves
> calculators, one could at least have the satisfaction of owning a
> replica. The starting point of course would have to be accurate,
> dimensioned drawings of an original, preferably following the metric
> system, so the manufacturing consortium would not have to be
> confined to the USA.
>
> Any offers/takers?
>
>
> >

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