Thread: OMG its Cracked.

Many years ago i attended an auction at P/N Maryborough. [now Suttons]
It was an unbelievable sale.In all my years i have never seen stuff sold so abhorrently.
Under instructions from the new owners beautiful machinery walked out the door at lower than scrap value.The scrap metal dealers had a field day.Saw one semi trailer load all 30 plus tons leave there direct for Simms metal.Cost at hammer drop 250 dollars.
My save was a C,incinatti t/c grinder, a Churchill Cylindrical Grinder 5 tons. and a Tos cylindrical grinder ,plus a few pallet load of sundries.Cost wise I leave that entirely to your imagination.
On a pallet buried under all the heavy stuff was a camel back straight edge [ sob sob] sadly cracked and with its wooden protector.It is cracked in two places in the one plane and for some years now have contemplated its future.
being such is a precision item,can it be repaired and re scraped back to its form
Thought about the cold repair metal locking welding or just using it as a talking piece weeping as we speak is nearly 4 ft long and a crying shame.
Any ideas gents would be appreciated John. ps talking with the N z reps sent there to oversee they were devastated and never has been a follow up sale still heaps there in the rear of factory under cover.