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[maple_leaf_eh]

Originally Posted by Alex Blair

Mike ..That is a nice little lathe ... back in the old days when we left an overseas military base we either took every thing home or destroyed it.

... Back in '70 we closed down our NATO commitment in Sardinia,Italy and we junked just about every thing.

One of our bigist losses besides our 104 rocket range and sea survival school in Sardinia was our lose of our only aircraft carrier..the Bonne Adventure..Thanks to our lap dog,commie loving,draft dodging Liberal prime Minister Piere Eliot Trude@u
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It was almost as bad as loosing the Avro Arrow back in '58 ...

So Alex, are you upset? Would you share with the rest of us why you feel this way? Go ahead. No one will judge.

[guyvapeur]

I acquired a lathe about 15 years ago..... I was not sure what I would build with it but I had had it with the job and was trying to remember what job I had ever held that I truly enjoyed. I remembered my first shop classes where I was introduced to a lathe..... I and remembered the wonderment the machine had left with me..... So....years later...... I bought one and to this day, I get a load of therapy while standing before the lathe. Yet tonight, I just finished up what could be best called a coupler to turn a 1925 railroad motor car lantern into a modern led.... spotlight... using the old casing.

Now as for Alex and the Bonnaventure.

Are you aware that the main lifeboat ( 1 of 2 I was told) from the Bonnaventure is sitting derilict in a junk yard West on Hwy 17.I believe it is Eds Salvage near Antrim????.... yup...It was last used for a Cadet program and then sold through Crown Assets.... Last time I saw it, it had been sitting open end up to the elements..... Now that would have been a worthy restoration.

Guy

[Bob Carriere]

If it is .....will get it for you Guy......

Bob