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Again with apologies to SS.... check THIS baby out. Very rare bird. It's a Dutch Hembrug AI.... got to see this over Xmas.... it belongs to my stepdad, who is of Dutch heritage and is an engineer with a fabrication shop. It'll be mine if I want it when he retires. It's roughly 17x60", 6500 lbs, and they are supposedly Swiss-built works of industrial art; very precise. Also a complete orphan machine.





I don't know if I'll have work warranting owning that machine or not. I think in that size range, I'd rather have one of the 17x60 or (!) 20x80 Webb/Wacheon machines. OTOH, I could hardly stand by and let such a rare and high quality machine get sold off for scrap or something!!