Martin Castings Group Buy Interest?

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I'm going to call on @ErichKeane who has a Gear Hobber project thread going now and recently purchased a Martin Casting Kit. He mentioned that there may be opportunities for group buys if there was enough interest. Not a lot of details, but I think these discussions should start with those where interest may exist. I thought of this group and just want to put it out there.

Any interest?
 
Doesn't Martin's castings sell a die grinder kit?
 
Dhal22 said:
Doesn't Martin's castings sell a die grinder kit?
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His castings come in 3 big categories of interest.

First is scraping projects/angle plates/camelback straightedges:https://www.martinmodel.com/collections/machining-scraping-project-castings

SECOND is model engines, mostly gas powered hit/miss ones: https://www.martinmodel.com/collections/model-engine-casting-sets

THIRD, and most interesting to me, are the machine tool casting kits: https://www.martinmodel.com/pages/machine-tools-kits-castings

On the 3rd lists is a really cool Quorn kit, a hand-powered-shaper, the gear hobber, and a Die Filer that is really nice and a reasonably interesting/easy starter project.
 
I don't think I ever got a response on my die filer kit inquiries.
 
Dhal22 said:
I don't think I ever got a response on my die filer kit inquiries.
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He's only so-so on email unfortunately, but is a nice guy on the phone. You might find more luck that way.
 
So judging from this month old post there was not a lot of interest in a group buy.

So much for my idea of local group buy with bulk freight shipping
 
So I chatted with Gary yesterday; seems like cast iron prices are going up, and so are his prices in a bit :(

ALSO: if anyone was considering building his Quorn, apparently he is down to his last 3 sets, and probably won't be getting anymore done.

So if you were wanting to build that cool tool grinder, you ought to act soon!
 
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Woops, that was supposed to be Quorn! Apparently phone auto correct got me :)
 
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