Oddly enough, I was at the local flea Sunday and a vendor had what he
called a "boroscope", an inspection scope with eyepiece and a 6' long fiber
optic piece for internal inspection of airplane wings, inside house walls
or anyplace else you could get an approximately #14 gauge wire into. It
even had the spot for an external light source. I never asked what he
wanted for it, but I should have since he was selling stuff cheap (I got a
2 foot 4 fold ruler in need of cleaning from him for 50 cents).

I may have to go back and get it this Sunday, since another guy is supposed
to be bringing a box of woodie molders now that I relieved him of the last
2 he had in his truck, along with a nice long Enderes paring chisel that is
actually not bent (hard to find long chisels that have not been used for
pry bars in these parts for some reason).

One of the local auction houses handles surplus auctions for Indiana
Universtiy School of Medicine, and they on occasion have some really neat
stuff such as dentist chairs and optometrists eye testers, but I have never
seen them sell an X-ray machines yet, just X-ray film developers. Silly
Nuclear Regulatory Commission won't let us have any fun...

Gary Maze

Who had to get to the flea market way early in the season to keep Steve
Lineback from pillaging it with impunity....

                                                                           
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Oh to be able to see the teeth of a saw with one half of the clarity with
which Paul's camera sees them, particularly as I have
several saws more than ready for resharpening and have been postponing the
evil day of serious squinting, spectacles with magnifiers
attached sliding in that which from my brow I eat my bread and the light
never being in the correct position for more than a minute.
Never being able to find the pencil mark from where one seeks to
re-commence the final filing after an interruption.

I await the day when the fleas will sell at bottom-feeder's prices the
equipment which enables a surgeon to view on a screen just
where his hands and tools are amongst the pipes of his patient.

Regards from Brisbane,

John Manners

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