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OT: do not call registry
The do not call registry expires next year. Here's the link to the website to reregister. Karl
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Request for help with extension-spring biasing problem (illustration drawing link provided)
Hello everyone, I would like to ask if anyone can please help me with the following problem. I have a small radial plate-cam and bearing housing (cam-housing) that is oscillated manually by hand via a...
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16 years ago
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Flattening silver wire
I've been making simple stuff for years, hammering away at 16-20 guage silver wire. I've got a neck injury now and every time I pick up the hammer, I set myself back about 2 months in my healing. I...
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My MOT spotwelder is in the DropBox
I did it as a pdf, using CutePDF to convert the html that I wrote in it. Thanks again, George, for the tip. I pdf'ed it as a single page to avoid all the white space that gets in when images occur at...
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16 years ago
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Ornamental ironwork
A photo ... Barry is an artist-craftsman in Huntsville who works with iron and steel. In this case, a gate is taking shape as he arc welds pieces together.
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16 years ago
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Be careful out there
Have a charged water hose and several fire extinguishers handy at all times when working in the shop. Having the walls and ceiling of the garage shop drywalled is a very good thing. Same with keeping...
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16 years ago
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1/2 X 8TPI Acme
Sometime in the future I will need to make a new crossfeed nut for my old Sheldon lathe. Didn't seem like a big deal until I realized that duplex taps are not available in 1/2"X8tpi Acme.Y'all have...
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Worklight holder
As I was surfing through the 7x10 lathe sites yesterday, I saw a neat-o trouble light holder on a lathe. It had a magnetic base, polycarbonate arms, and it used a troublelight in a clamp of some sort....
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What is it? CXCVIII
A new set has just been posted: As I mentioned a couple weeks ago, please don't send any email to the account that I use to post here on the newsgroups, it still doesn't receive any incoming mail,...
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need advice: fair value of a CNC?
So I'm contemplating dipping my toes into the CNC world for the first time: I found a late 80's Shizuoka STN mill with a Bandit2 controller. looks to be very well kept, and clean, low hours, and I was...
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16 years ago
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Ames #2 hardness checker
I picked up an Ames hardness tester on Ebay. It seems to check out okay (within +/-2 Rc on the Rc25 and Rc 65 calibration bars that came with it), but you have to turn the load knob pretty hard to get...
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16 years ago
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PC board drilling
I have a robotic vehicle control box that I farmed out to the EE boys. They designed it with some factory 'H' gate integrated circuits, the hole spacing is a weird as it can be. (IIRC its .150" C to...
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Thoughts on the CQ6128A / Grizzly G9972Z 11x26 lathe
http://www.gilanet.com/ohlandl/lathe/CQ6128A.html
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Compressor identification
A young fella at work brought in a compressor head that he picked up out of the junk. He wants advice and help on fixing. Good/excellent condition vertical 60 gallon tank. Old and heavy. The castings,...
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16 years ago
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FS Lathe chucks
I have the following for sale. They are located in San Francisco, CA. I don't want to get involved in shipping as they are heavy and I want the buyer inspect them prior to purchase. Frequently I...
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16 years ago
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