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2/26/14, 9:24 PM   #39
Re: National lightning sprint meeting
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Originally Posted by TQ29m View Post
DAD, mine is a full size Bridgeport, little by no means, weighs 4k, I've had to use a wrecker when moving it from my shop at home, to our big shop up town, then 23 yrs later back home. At one time I had Davis, and a Peck, and Peck & Davis. Bob
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I have a little Bridge Port with 42" table. I never met Charlie Peck, but from what I understand he was a pretty good machinist also. His shop was somewhere down in the country, and my Dad described him as an upscale Al Davis. He messed with a bunch of Micro stuff back then and I had a 10 ci. Continental that Charlie had built and he had machine 2 billet rods for them. They were beautiful and when you tapped them they rang like a bell. Talking about Old time craftsmen like those guys were, today is more like telling a folk story. They just get better and better with age.

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