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fender supports
OK guys, I have a question for you metal gurus. I am building a replica of a Briggs and Stratton or Smith Flyer. It uses 20 inch wheels (Bicycle) and bike fenders. I would like to mount the fenders...
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Glue Solvent - 3 Second Hole Shot - Yeah, I Acquired Another One
Short (only 45 seconds) video: real metal working content. I did some metal working on this one for the previous owner, but don't have any planned for myself right now. Not a lot of metalworking...
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5 months ago
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Rhythmic vibration at certain speeds
And for a while now I thought it was a worn rubber bushing on the rear axle lateral stabilizer rod because when I turned left it got worse but on right curves it disappeared . But today I did some...
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Bending C Channel - Tips, Tricks, Simple and Elegant, Complex but Cheap?
I need to make a couple boat trailers... Of course I can pie slice and weld, but I'd prefer to bend. Professional trailer members are bent (well except the really small stuff or the really big stuff)....
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5 months ago
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wood stove overnight - thx snag
Hi there Think thread was something like "electic" - lost it. Anyway - Snag; thanks for commenting about large log which will just fit in the stove for keeping in a fire overnight. I asked about that...
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Learn something new all the time
At the second hand store another customer was buying lathe equipment so I asked him about trouble I'd had parting and he told me to set the blade about 0.020" below center instead of trying to exactly...
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Today's Metal Working Content
I've been working on a dead man's boat for a while now. Before he died he asked me to take it away. I might have told the back story here before so I'll try to make it short. My buddy Gary tried to...
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Electrical
In my process of adding an EV charging station I had wanted to add another 20 amp 220V outlet for occasional use of other 220V equipment in the garage. (band saw, radial arm saw, non business CNC...
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6 months ago
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Acetylene leak, BOOM!
Hi, Interesting news article on the power of leaking acetylene😬 OTTAWA COUNTY, MI – Police believe a leaking cutting torch stored in a vehicle’s trunk caused an explosion early Wednesday...
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6 months ago
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Honing cylinders
Interested in details. Jim W. responded on thread "Re: Oldies but goodies Re: deburring inside drilled tubing?" " When I was hunting for low cost used components to build my bucket loader the owner of...
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Every Man in The Room Thinks He's The Smartest Man In The Room
I first heard this from one of those talking heads on the radio. Well, it was radio. I guess it could have been a talking butt hole. It can say with 100% certainty. Anyway, as I recall it they were...
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6 months ago
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Lifting Don's well cover
Hi Don, I had great plans for you to be a new government official after The Cull. But I hadn't seen any sign of you for years prior to my recent move, so I was kinda hoping you'd preceded me here. Oh...
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simple shop made hydraulics?
Anyone here ever made simple shop-made hydraulics? I do have a pretty decent lathe (Enterprise 1550) and I'm a not-half-bad home shop machinist after decades of very slow learning whilst creating lots...
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6 months ago
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I feel better -
- after learning that the crawling in rust and sweating over stuck bolts that I'm doing under the old car is worth $160 an hour.
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how you knew beam deflect vs stress
Jim - lost previous thread. You used that formulation for beam deflection in relation to beam *stress*... For a "simple beam" (like a plank bridging two points) deflection = sigma.L^2 / 6.E.H sigma =...
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