Some good therapy may help too! You got WAAY too much time on your hands, buddy!

Sir,
With your previous posts and attacks on, (Not just Steve), but what appeared to be an all out reprisal aimed at ALL who frequent this fine Forum, You are not helping your cause. A Man of Your age should know that when entering in to an AWS online forum, You will encounter Professionals. You Sir, do not strike me as a man who has the slightest idea of what it means to think before you speak. Be a Professional.
Respectfully, Jeffrey S. Grady Sr.  

>>Boy, I still bet it took a while to type all that. :-)

<snip-2 para of self-promo>

>>...telling me how terrible of a person I was & how little I knew about the machinery business in general for doing so."

citation, please? never said any such thing, or anthing remotely LIKE it. again, steve, you're "reading invisible things into things" that aren't really there.

meanwhile (just for fun, though :-) I'm still looking for a welder...

>>You need to understand that Myself, as well as all the other full time members of this site ( Many, who
>>came to my defense) see a great deal of individuals come on this site to sell, peddle or advertise items & >>services, with no real interest in the forum or organization itself.

I'm as interested as you are, steve. bit overly dramatic, maybe? OK, fine :-)

<snipped here -1.5 para self promo>

>>No one is really getting anywhere with that though, are they?

well, some of us are putting extra wear on our keyboards... :-)

>> Again, my sincerest apologies for coming across the wrong way, being the circumstances.

thank you steve. like I said earlier, you're probably a pretty good welder fixer/reseller under the circumstances.

>>There's nothing wrong with fixing some stuff up, turning it for a profit. Nothing at all. It's the guys that
>>cleverly do it under the radar, putting their permanent "garage sale" signs out, every single weekend,
>>making a handsome side profit & not carrying insurance, license or paying taxes every time they make a
>>sale like I do.

the stuff I'm selling (or wanting to, possibly trade) is part of a lifetime of tool collecting, upgrading, and rotataing in and out. now, that may or may *not* exactly "fit in" with your rigidly-defined set of "rightness rules" for what constitutes "fair use" of ones rented 1500 sq foot shop, and the attendant expenses, but, I'm not sure what to tell ya on that. other than, it's our lives, and I think those of us here (on earth, meaning: toolusers, generally) who happen to sell a tool every now and then don't have to answer to a self-proclaimed higher authority, regardless of what same self-ordained authority might "think" is good, or righteous. and the clincher: some of those (us) folks, I'm sure, are the very -same- folks BUYING your welders. you gonna go ahead and "rain on their parades" and besmirch what their (possible) motives, too, steve, when they sell that welder they got from YOU a year or so later? ...didn't think so

some of us (I'm sure I'm not the only one) buy machines, or tools, use them for a while (that 'while' varying in term length: could be weeks, could be decades), and then may HAVE to try to resell them when their purposes are over. and, yeah, I *might* buy a welder, have a heart attack, and TRY to sell it next week, maybe even here. by the pre-conceived 'set of rules' you seem fond of waving the flag about, though, that'd be non-kosher, totally unacceptable, and you might start rattling on about "what somebodys hidden motives are" or "how their e-mail address is strange" or some other bizarre stuff. UNLESS they also "asked your forgiveness" for posting it so soon, or also put in the post "heart attack-MUST SELL-sacrifice sale" column, or something. not at all clear why you feel you're "standing on the moral high ground", gotta tell ya. gets a bit tiring.

the way you live your life is NO more "noble" than mine, steve, ongoing self-promotion to the contrary. I've seen an awful lot of "holier than thou" types come and go in my day, and I find them, generally, suspect. they tend to rub me the wrong way. 

>>Once again, I have not, and am not, accusing you of being that kind of individual. I just call it like I see it,
>>if it looks to be the case though. Peace out, Dave. No hard feelings here. Hope you feel the same.
>>Respectfully, Steve Webber.

I do feel the same, of course, steve, yeah, no hard feelings. peace rings triumphantly throughout the land :-)

dave