Hi Ian !

Keep trying.  I subscribe to an agricultural newspaper called
Lancaster Farming.  It's a Pennsylvania publication, but it
lists want ads (both freebies (one per month, the rules say)
and paid ones.  It also lists all the farm (and some machinery)
auctions in the Northeast.  Every weekend there are about 500
such auctions.  It takes the patience of a saint to read all
the copy in the auction announcements, but one can get some
real gems that way ... cheap, if you've got the patience and
the nerve to know your (and your competitors') limits.

Ian McKinley wrote:
>
> At 07:42 PM 7/13/98 -0000, you wrote:
> >Hi OldTools!
> >
> >Not having posted any Q's yet and anxious do
> >    non-Normie acivities with machine-tool
> >         building, e.g. hand scraping and
> >         general restorations (make it work
> >         as good or better than new)
> >
> >George
> >
> >--
>
>      Hi George
>
>      I am also very interested in old machine tools, how they were
> built and how to restore or reproduce them. Unfortunately I have
> not found any that I could afford. :-(

> Welcome to the list.
>
>                            Ian
>
>