I broke my own business rule and decided to invest time and money into “me too” products in my The Hobbyist Machine Store. A “me too” product is a non proprietary item purchased at dealer discount and then offered for sale near the retail “street” price which is always less than the factory price. The problem is I am just one of many other “dealers”, including the factory that sells the exact same product. So...
Continue reading...Hot Serving Cart
I just posted a report about this cart over in The Hobbyist Workshop website. It is going to become a useful tool when I begin casting non ferrous metals using the lost wax process I and my daughter took a course last fall to discover how wax carving and lost wax casting is done. I will soon be doing it here in my shop. I will have a vacuum casting table setting on the hard...
Continue reading...Unstabled – TEDEX
The poor TEDEX horse is about dead. I keep beating on (uh… my brain) trying to get her back up on her feet so she can run again. But when I open the stable for awhile, all the nag will attract is a hoard of flies. That’s a rather crude simile, but it is, what it is. I’ll probably be arrested by the SPCA police (They have TV shows on the subject now.) since in today’s sensitive culture, animals...
Continue reading...Black Vulture
I was working in my garage on Sunday and noticed a Black Vulture chowing down on some road kill rabbit at the front of my house, near my driveway. It’s not everyday I see a Black Vulture (No it is NOT a Turkey Vulture) in my neighborhood. I have seen them several times while driving in the countryside. They are much larger than a crow and the grey head gives away that it is a...
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