I am going to be off the air for a few days(meaning I am not sure when I will be back on.) I going back into the hospital for a surgical debridement of one of my surgical wounds. And, be put back on intravenous antibiotic IV therapy, I couple of nasty bugs growing in the wound, Providencia rettgeri and Pseudomonas aeruginosa. I hope I come home with what’s left of my foot intact.
David Richards, who owns The Old Steam Powered Machine Shop has suffered some health setbacks and is not only closing shop, he is selling everything off.
I have literally watched dozens of his Youtube videos and personally corresponded with him.
He has recorded EIGHTY NINE YouTube videos if you would care to go watch any of them.
He is a walking encyclopedia of not only antique steam engines but engine machining and building plus running a steam powered machine shop that he designed, built and ran by himself for many years.
It’s a fully functional machine shop run off a steam engine with a boiler lit up all in one building, set up just like you stepped back into the 1920’s.
It is heartbreaking but time marches on.
He is hoping some foundation or museum with deep pockets buys the entire collection and moves it somewhere.
I wish him the best of luck.
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