At  Wednesday 01:22 AM 6/9/99 , Paul Womack wrote:
>A welcome new addition, Mr Shelton spake thus:
>
>>
>> I still have the pow$r tools, but now look for hand tool alternatives
>whenever> possible.
>
>Does this statement offer a high-level test of the single minded galoot?
>Is the real, no-turning back stage when, having acquired many
>hand tools, you start to SELL your p*w*r tools?
>
>Anyone claim to qualify?
>
>       BugBear.
>       (who didnt' have that many hand p*w*r tools to sell,
>       and still has all 3)
>

A couple of years ago, I recall another galoot claiming to have converted
their t*bles*w into a lapping table.  Don't 'member exactly who it was,
though...

Speaking for myself, my p*w*r jointer sits in an inaccesible corner of the
shop.  Haven't even plugged it in in over a year.   Besides being less
dangerous, hand jointing is lots more fun, there's no limit to the
dimensions of stock that can be worked, and I find I can do a better job &
quicker than I ever was able to do with the tailed finger shortener.

My first inspiration to "unplug  the monster" was fellow galoot Ernie
Fisch, whose jointer is similarly indisposed.

Gerry Kmack / Cave Creek, AZ