Originally Posted by
Old Farang
On a more sadder note, a good friend here in Thailand passed away suddenly a couple of months ago. This bloke was a genius working with metal, and amongst other items, there is two small lathes, a milling machine with rows and rows of cutting tools along with its DRO and VFD drive. A drill press, band saw, air compressor and hundreds of hand tools. In a separate room is a vast quantity of bar stock, assorted screws nuts and bolts, spray cans of all sorts of stuff.
I have the sad task of trying to help his widow what to do with it all. Most of this stuff is imported, and although the milling machine is Chinese, it appears to be of good quality. I have yet to make a full inventory of it all and try and put a price on it. There is only a limited market here for this type of equipment, and although there is a small "club", most people interested are retired and on limited budgets.