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Strange drill breakage
OK, I've busted a few drills in my time, even a couple of 5/8". But to break an almost new Nachi 7/16" by dropping it on the floor from waist level is clearly a new one on me. I've spouted my love of...
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OT Crime drop attributed to lead-free gasoline
"Has the Clean Air Act done more to fight crime than any other policy in American history? That is the claim of a new environmental theory of criminal behavior. In the early 1990s, a surge in the...
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Possible contamination
Beware of the post, today's date, "rotary engine -- what's the name". It, or one of the respondents gave my PC a case of diarrhea. The problem seemed to occur when reading the post by spaco. Bob...
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freeze proofing
I need to set up a quick and easy way to protect a dishwasher, a clothes washer and a water softener from freezing... My first plan is to solder a Tee and two valves in the water line near each unit....
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Very thick leather? (1/4 in thick)
I have a couple of leather belts made from some very thick leather. They are about 1/4" thick. (from a screw machine shop) What animals do they come from? I do not think that cows have skin that...
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Tried running the quincy compressor
I hooked it up to my phase converter, which provider 17.5 horsepower of idler capacity. (also finally changed plugs and connectors from some 120/208 weirdness to 250/3p/20A standard plugs of which I...
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Wanted: Plastic casting expert
We are making plastic prototypes that are computer grown. There are 3 components less than 7" in diameter. Our need is to mold them in hard white PU and replicate about 50 additional prototypes. Can...
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More is less
I heard this on the radio today about a test on monkeys. They had two stations set up. At the first station the monkey would first get one cookie and the second time he would get two. The third time...
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Bridgeport question
Is there anything that would create and overly tight condition where the feed arm is really, really tight and hard to depress to get the tooling to move. I tried another machine the other day and it...
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wheel mount for B & S 824 techmaster?
Anyone know what the taper is to mount the wheel on a Brown and Sharpe 824 Techmaster? I just bought the machine and would like to get a spare wheel mount. The machine has a diamond wheel on it that I...
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Quincy 10 HP compressor and VFD
Depending on the unloader system, it may be entirely pneumatic time delay, or hydraulic. Especially if hydraulic, it will not be at a specific time. The first start of the day will take longer. Just...
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Mechanical Aptitude Test
Was posted in But doesn't seem to have migrated over here yet... scored a 430... I've got the unfair advantage over some of you of being trained here on the job... But never had schooling in most of...
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Union Millwrights
What a idiot! ***** If brains were cotton. You would not have enough cotton in your head to make a kotex for a gnats ass! ***** Union definition: A combination so formed, especially an alliance or...
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3D-Taster hints
I just got my older 3D Taster (one dial pointer only) and I'd like to find someone that uses one... I rotate the dial so that it's up and down?
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Machining instruction
I don't recall seeing this posted. ============== Welcome to the Virtual Machine Shop machine tool training and instruction online supported by you! Lathes, Milling Machines, CNC, CAD/CAM, Metallurgy,...
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