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What is the biggest conspiracy in USA?
The answer is, it is the "Santa conspiracy". Very wide ranging. i
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Cutting teeth in a ratchet wheel
The wheel is 36" dia., .3125" thick and has a 14" hole in the center and six equidistant mounting holes .375 dia. 1" from center hole. There needs to be 118 teeth that are 3/8" deep and have a leg of...
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Slightly OT: Spot the deliberate mistake
I thought of selling some of my stuff on eBay (fixed price=free till tomorrow) so I did some research on the competition. Needless to say there is an awful lot of crap out there including some...
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OT: Help! Dust in my varnish!
Problem, part A: I'm making a birthday present for SWMBO, which includes a nice wooden part which I'm varnishing. For whatever reason -- and contrary to my experience using this stuff on earlier...
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How to make a small clean hole?
A coworker bought a view camera, and while searching for glass wants to take some pinhole pictures. I ran through the formula, and the pinhole needs to be about .025". I have, somewhere, PCB drill...
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OT: Walmart Deters Shoplifting
I saw some idiot in a supermarket try to escape with stolen shrimp. The employees blocked his exit and the police tased him. I like to see employees going that extra mile- although the company...
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When to give up on the 4x6 horz'l bandsaw?
Awl -- How do you know when to junk it, and just get another one? I've had two main problems: Blade tracking (jumping off the wheels), and wildly non-vertical cuts. Now, I know the blade tracking can...
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Making welding tables
A couple months ago, I discovered that "welding tables", meaning sturdy tables with thick steel tops 3/8 to 1 inch, are very hot selling items, desired by many people and easy to sell. Right now I...
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Any Erector Set folks out there?
Seems that fewer and fewer kids are learning about building things with toys that use real nuts and bolts these days. I think that's too bad. I just gathered up my own small collection of Gilbert...
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The Price of Aluminum
You want news: for these questions.
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Interesting article on bringing manufacturing back to America
" Thomas Mayor, a senior adviser with Booz & Company who specializes in manufacturing strategy, says that in industry after industry, he is seeing the same kind of reassessment GE has made. When asked...
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What is it? Set 469
Today's set has been posted: Rob
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OT Microwave Schematics
I have a defective out of warranty GE Microwave. Model WES1452SP1SS Serial MS900938B. I am looking for the factory repair manual, if it exists. Does anyone have this document or can you point me to a...
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Tax the rich guy
Las Vegas Sands Corp. (LVS), the casino company led by billionaire Sheldon Adelson, voted a special dividend (LVS) that will pay its controlling shareholder about $1.2 billion before an expected...
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How to attach a rod to a grass trimmer crankshaft?
I sloppily removed the clutch contraption, apparently without functional damage to the grass trimmer. I need to attach a 1/4 inch aluminum rod to that threaded bolt sticking out from the crankshaft....
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