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Request for material recommendation for a Titanium grade or similar lightweight material with high yield strength
Hi everyone, I need to machine two small parts. One part requires a yield strength of 100,000 PSI and one part requires a yield strength of 200,000 PSI. It's probably best to machine the parts from...
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Hydraulic oil and condensation
If there's a better group to take this question, point me the way. If not, some of you guys have experience with hydraulics. When I bought my Grasshopper commercial mower with a hydraulic drive 6...
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Best paint color for a Wilton machinist vise
I am going to repaint a couple of Wilton machinist vises (400 and 500 series bullet vises) What color would you say be the best? grey (as in galvanizing paint) or red on top of it?
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Basic 3D & CAD programs
Hi All I am looking for a 3D or CAD program that is relatively simple to use. I=92ve used 3D Max and obtain some good results, creating figures moving camera positions etc. However I want to design...
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Clausing Compound
Would anyone happen to know if a compound from a 12" Clausing 5900 might by chance fit a 13" Clausing 1300? I need a cross slide for my 1300 and I have seen a few for 5900's come and go on ebay....
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Guide to selecting a MIG Welder
http://snipr.com/MIGwelder
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Turning acrylic/plexiglass rod on a lathe
Hello, I know this is not specifically metal related, but we have some acrylic rod that we are trying to machine using a lathe. The problem with acrylic is that it melts as the bit is cutting into it....
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FOR SALE: Vintage Shop Tools
Hello, y'all. I hope I'm not violating etiquette by posting this, but since I'm not much of a metalworker, I don't hang out here. Anyway, I've put a few items of interest to metal-heads* up for...
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Rolls Royce mini lathe
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6" cut-off wheel in a bench grinder
I have to cut 2 perfectly matching slots in a 5 mm thick flat semicircular piece of steel, each 15 mm by 5mm. As per suggestion on another thread I doubled up on the hacksaw blades. This gave me only...
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electric stun fish
I seem to remember a guy getting in trouble for fishin' crappie with electricity... I've got a large koi pond that has way too may fish. Many of them are not desirable color. (Offspring tend to revert...
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Pipe benders
This is another tool I have no experience with, I have not even seen in real life. I came across a few as "other items sold on EBay". The concept intrigued me as, in future, I will have a need to bend...
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A different kind of metal forming
I intend to learn a new skill and shape aluminum panels to make a motorcycle fairing. I have seen a skilled pro make them, and have aquirred a beating bag and have an antique hand-held English wheel....
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Metal Forming
Hello, I would like to start making brackets and other metal items. Would anyone have any links or books on metal forming and the tools needed? I would like to know how how they form complex forms...
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Ryobi BGH827 8" bench grinder vibration - postscript
I had an idea on how to get around the problem of drunken threads - a spherical-seat washer, which would allow the wheel to be clamped uniformly despite the cockeyed nuts. Thew was not space for a...
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