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Has anybody contacted Southwestern Industries to confirm that they have a new TAD product planned?

I've had good luck with Wera too. Wiha as well. Neither cheap, but I'd rather cry once.

Too bad the guy that needs help is in Kansas ;)

The last time I tried that the PO refused the shipment because it had advertisements in it, even the magazine was 100+ years old and nothing in it was still available new.

HSMAdvisor is another feed & speed calculator that is available and I find it much easier to use and more reliable than GWizard. It also has a mobile version (FSAdvisor) which is handy at the machine if there is no computer nearby. https://hsmadvisor.com/

My 3rd edition in hard copy and (I believe) purchased directly from Bob Shores definitely had the copyright notice that I quoted in Post #25. If your downloaded copy did not have this notice, then perhaps the original scanner intentionally skipped that page in the book.

Agreed, thanks for following up.

I just meant that contacting the publisher could be difficult if Bob self-published.

I have the 1997, rd. edition copy of the book, purchased from Bob Shores himself at NAMES (I believe). So far as I can tell, there is no ISBN number for it. No publisher either, so perhaps it was self-published. There is a page stating: "All rights reserved. No part of this book may be...

It seems to me that in cases like this it is incumbent upon the community to make a diligent attempt to contact the heirs of copyright holders before publically posting or linking to downloadable versions of copyrighted material, both books and model designs. Conjecture from the Internet...

Is the book still under copyright, perhaps held by Bob's heirs?

Some decent deals can be found on Ebay for tri-mike bore gauges, though you will need a known good ring gage to verify it.

That's really too bad. I looked forward to attending the show for many years.

Brian, Thanks for the added info and I'm glad to see that you've been so successful with Mach4. Is there a hobby-level version available for sale?

Is that confirmed now? It would be a shame, if true.

I never actually got around to trying it out. I was at (possibly the last) CNC Workshop near Detroit several years ago and one of the featured speakers was the guy responsible from Mach 4 (Brian Barker?). Comments that I overheard from the attendees at the time indicated that Mach 4 was still...

I was required to inspect the compressor tank at work annually. Even small pressure vessels on research equipement also required annual inspection. I've never inspected the tanks on any of my 3 personal air compressors but might do so with a small camera on a tether one of these days.

I never hand write any substantial amount of G-code. I often use the MDI square up rough stock, though. Tormach uses PathPiot, a variant of Linux CNC, and that has a pretty useful set of Wizards, or conversational routines to write code snippets. I usually use SprutCAM to create programs for...

I'm probably another outlier here. I've had used a Tormach PCNC 1100 for 15+ years and realized this year that I hadn't used my Clausing 8520 at all in several years so I sold it, complete with Kurt 3-in vise, Servo (brand) power feed, and Shooting Star 3-axis DRO at the beginning of the year...

Has Mach4 matured enough to be reliable for most users? Perhaps 5 years ago or more it seemed to have problems in development.