[Tubejunke]

Well, depending on your financial status in life, you could just acquire all of the machinery and possibly data from a defunct corporation and make your own shop in CA. I am sure that the machinery is scattered all over the country and there should be enough ex-employees of the trade floating around to gain the hands on knowledge that would be a great asset for such a venture. I saw a TV show recently that talked about a company that has a huge inventory of old factory machinery of all types and conditions. They are like Harry Poster in that they sell 'as found', 'repaired', or 'retrofitted'. Of course, this idea is NOT a "get rich quick" scheme at all. Actually it would be just the opposite! Someone would just have to have the capital, time, and love of the hobby to do the work for people at a reasonable cost.