[Rich Biebel]

Originally Posted by Paul Ceasrine

Rich B.

Charlie Cockey,,,,,a smooth talker,,,,,he was from Maryland.

The NEWAY carbide cutter set-up,,,,,,,,,about $1800 or so for the kit,,,,
worked great for the foreign head soft seats too,,,,,,

Charlie Cockey, one pressure salesman,,,,,,,,,his commision base for
NEWAY was 50%,,,,,,,,,,$900 per unit,,,,,,,,not too bad for those
early-to-mid 1980's salesman,,,,,,
My father threw him out,,,,,,,,but still bought one anyway,,,,,
They did serve a purpose,,,,,,

Sounds like Jack Vogel may have been to your shop too,,,,,
he was the rep for Winona, Storm-Vulcan, Rottler and Tobin-Arp,
Goodsen, K-Line and few other companies,,,,,,

Winona FG-5000 Flywheel Grinder,,,,,,,,,,,,,another great money maker
for the shop,,,,,,,

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The Neway seat cutter had one bad feature.....the cast iron chips that were made from cutting seats piled up and blocked your view of the seat and top cuts......So your natural reaction is to blow the chips away.....Even with S-G's (safety glasses) you often get one in an eye.......Lets see freshly cut cast iron and moisture.....and your eyes propensity for capturing foreign objects........Lets just say I visited the eye doctor a few times and at least one was real unpleasant.......

I wear better protection these days (Plastic goggles) when I have to roll around under a vehicle at work just to avoid the eye doctor visits....

The Neway was priced right about what you stated...and I figured that guy Charlie sold every machine shop he could find one.

The Serdi guys did not have that kind of success......the price for one of those was off the scale.....