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"  The Machinist  Reader: Pat Delany Hometown: Palestine, Texas Materials: $10,000 Time: Four years Result: A junkyard creation that could help developing nations develop faster. * See Multimachine Runners Up * Submit Your Own DIY Project   Talk about recycling: Pat Delany of Palestine, Texas, transformed two old car-engine blocks and a hodgepodge of other castaway auto and machine parts into a mini machine shop. The 1000-pound contraption serves as an end mill, horizontal mill, drill press, sander, grinder, sheetmetal spinner, and as a metal or wood lathe and saw. Switching functions is a simple matter of attaching various adapters to the spindle or, for the lathe chucks, just screwing them on. Delany recently used his invention -- a four-year labor of love -- to resurface a neighbor&amp;#039;s brake rotors. But the self-employed oil consultant envisions a grander goal for his tool of plenty: &amp;quot;People in developing countries could be trained to use this machine to repair farm machinery, auto parts and more.&amp;quot; Delany bought a number of components, but he says the whole system could be built from scavenged parts.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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