You want to hear something even worse, I paid for none of my machines. I bartered electronics I found and repaired at the Transfer Staation for most of my machine tools. I traded a 32" Sony Trinitron T.V. I had just found, and fixed for a 9" inch South bend Lathe, with all the collets. I fixed a 32" Mitsubishi T.V. (The last CRT TV they ever made0 for repair and$400 dollars for my $1500 dollar Miller TIG Econotig, plus foot pedal, and attachments. I have a grinding wheel that will grind your fingers off. It sharpens lawn mower blades like they were made from butter. I barter for everything, I always come out ahead, and the people I barter with have never complained. I won't even go into how many tractors I've got for just removing them, fixing them, then flipping for $400 bucks. I have the same tuube notching cutter that NASACAR frame makers use, it cost at the time over $800 dollars (20 years ago) I got it for $150 dollars, because I helped the owner fix a redirect he had on his website that was dropping his sales for a month. It's so heavy, what I paid him covered mostly the shipping! I did buy my M.I.G. welder, but I did some work with it a week later that paid for most of it.