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I can remember in the early 1980's, the west Texas area and eastern New Mexico was booming with machine shops on every street corner. Guys had shops stuffed in their barns out on the family farms and in garages at home as most of us have today. Then the oilfield went bust. All of the machinery went, who knows where. Used to be a machinery dealer in Odessa that advertized in one of the machinery magazines for many years trying to sell leftover stuff he had accumulated from the bust. One day, he was gone! There's a guy in Odessa that has a small shop that does work on the stuff he runs out in the field. His dad bought a brand new LeBlond NC lathe back around 1978 for a play toy. It had less than 4000 hours on it in 2005 when I visited the shop!