The grand total for the Old Lumens lathe project is
$3863.08!
Astonishing!! I still am amazed at the tremendous repose of the kind hearts that make up this forum. More than a thousand dollars over our goal was raised.
In addition to that I have a few other statistics you may be interested in.
Total dollar amount of fees charged at this end was only $23.19.
Funds were received from countless states and countries in seven different currencies including:
USD
CAD
EUR
AUD
SEK
NOK
NZD
Finally a total of one hundred thirty four individual payments were sent in total.
It has been my great honor and privilege to serve as proxy for this event. Thank you all so much for your kindness to Justin and you patience though these past days.
What a great total amount collected, thanks VOB for being the middle man :-)
This started as helping someone out, but our investment is already being more than returned in the form of OL's new permanent lathe thread, I will be enjoying that for years to come!
So good to hear. I think all the vendors that helped should reveal themselves. There will be a time when we are deciding which vendor to purchase something from, and this will definitely tip the scales.
While that sounds like a wonderful idea, I’d hate to push someone to reveal him/her self who may prefer to remain anonymous. Besides, the good vendors are the good vendors. We should support them whether they contributed specifically to this fund or not. But, most of the truly good ones probably did contribute, is the feeling I got from VOB’s post.
Fantastic! Thanks so much to everyone for their kindness and generosity toward a very deserving member. And many thanks to VOB too for running the campaign, I know he really bent over backwards to make this all work out.
By the way, VOB and Justin asked me to do an audit of VOB's handling of the funds just to assure our members that the funds were managed correctly. I ran through a PDF of VOB's PayPal account status with a fine-toothed comb, and there was only a small discrepancy of $3.14, which is probably related to international currency conversion complications. VOB did a fantastic job running all of this, and we just wanted to let everyone know that all of their generous donations reached the intended recipient.
Justin is the only lucky soul I know that can win a decent lottery payoff without ever buying a ticket!
Nice job everybody, Justin is having a blast (well, more or less) getting the lathe ready to go to work and the lathe itself is an impressive looking piece of equipment! The 10 x 22 size looks to be a great choice, he should be able to do a lot with this… really looking forward to seeing the procession here.
Justin very generously gifted to me the smaller drill press he was working with previously, which was in turn a gift to him from the forum or an individual here. I have cut my first copper with it and it works splendidly! And so yes, I’ve seen the lathe in Justin’s “shop” and it looks right at home there.
Thanks DavidEF for the mental nudge!
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