Tarbender - that was so nice - I can understand why you do miss your DH
boston 1954 - gotta love him for the thought - but it is kind of in the "Thanks, but you REALLY shouldn't" category.
Is there another machine you might want as a backup? Maybe you could point him that way - or ask him if you could start a "super machine" fund ?
(And actually use it for that someday)