Thanks for sharing the story. I was thinking that maybe a good course of action would have been to find some guy like the one you mention here and see if they w

Thanks for sharing the story. I was thinking that maybe a good course of action would have been to find some guy like the one you mention here and see if they were interested in being beta testers/consultants in exchange for getting the machine for free. My dad and I are kind of like you and that guy, by the way. He's the shop guy with no schooling but almost half a century of experience building stuff, and I'm the one who knows all the math and computer stuff... ;-)