I was on HJ Epsteins site the other day and learned a few things I didn't know about grooved rules (the kind used by both machinists, and woodworkers with tri square heads. According to the guys a HJE, for a number of years the only companies producing grooved rules were Starrett and PEC. So for decades HJE has sold PEC factory seconds of PEC grooved rules that had the brand ground off of them. 

So, the big news is that PEC was bought out by another company and will discontinue selling factory seconds grooved rules. Upon learning that news HJE found and bought thousands of grooved rules since they will not have an ongoing supplier in the near future.  They said they will have 17 various types of grooved rules available online  within the next few weeks. Of course the resource I spoke of in my thread about purchasing several seconds grooved rules from the yardstore will likely run out of their inventory fairly quickly too since they are selling PEC seconds too.

The big news to me was that PEC used to produce their grooved rules for many other brands except for Starrett. So, with Starrett absorbed by another company, and now the same thing happening only a couple of months later, it is feasible that the availability of either of these brands as USA made might be in question.

That looks fantastic! Gonna get me one of those to add to my goodie pile! 

Another thing to consider is that the MSM is controlled by a small group of people who have an agenda to push. We're only getting the information that they want us to see.

Probably no one there to monitor the site on a regular basis.

That's what I thought.  I wonder if something happened to Frank?

Just for fun, here's a picture of the monster. Fortunately it does have cab doors to slam a hand in.