Re: [CR]Re: Bilam and shaping machine

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Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 12:30:32 -0800
From: "Chuck Schmidt" <chuckschmidt@earthlink.net>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR]Re: Bilam and shaping machine
References: <20040520.152247.3748.124.richardsachs@juno.com>


I'm with you Richie. When I saw Hetchins in the local shops here in Southern California in the mid 1970s and they told me the lugs were "cut and filed by hand" I wasn't buying it!

Chuck Schmidt South Pasadena, Southern California

Richard M Sachs wrote:
>
> no matter what he meant, i'm still leaning toward the
> facts in flash's 3 part account of hetchins: that - for the
> most part - the fleur-de-lisssss (?) and little geegaws
> were applied by mechanical means, meaning <not>
> lovingly cut & sculpted by the hands of an arteeeste.
> e-RICHIE
> aka Richard M Sachs
> chester, ct
>
> StuartMX4@aol.com writes:
> > Surely, a shaping machine is the correct term for what is more
> > commonly called a shaper. It is used to machine flat surfaces by the
> > reciprocating action of a tool rather than the rotating action of a
> milling
> > cutter, and it could not cut out shapes. It must have been a slip of
> the
> > tongue. What could he have meant, please, all you engineers out there?
> > Stuart Tallack in Sussex