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Clausing 5914 - Tool-slide saga
What!? You are making cutoffs with 12 x 12 mm bits!? You don't have to wonder if there is chatter, noise and vibration. 4mm wide for a 50mm deep cut is OK, but the bit has do be *considerably* higher....
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Clausing 5914 VariDrive Wobble - 1st update
After some careful hi-spotting and filing of the bunged-up end of the motor shaft, the pulley now slides onto the motor shaft properly, so I put it all back together, this time with the setscrews...
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Beloit Bridgeport
mill with Digital Readouts - $1500 What a shock! Metalworking machinery in Beloit.. Too damn big to get down my basement steps... http://madison.craigslist.org/tls/510936318.htmlBridgeport
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Top-coating cold galvanizing rustoleum
Project is a trailer to haul coal (take THAT arabs). I'm using hot rolled angle and once I get everything welded up and clean off the mill scale, I was going to use Rustoleum cold galvanizing spray...
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forklift questions
I am starting to look for a forklift for around the shop. There's one on ebay that has brakes that do not work, are they hard or very expensive to fix? I know nothing about forklifts. Item number:...
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Special Deburring Tools?
Does anyone know of a manufacturer other than Cogsdill or E-Z Burr that makes deburring tools that will do both sides of a "hole" with one pass. The tools we know about now are these: line is that if...
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16 years ago
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Thoughts on the CQ6128A / Grizzly G9972Z 11x26 lathe
http://www.gilanet.com/ohlandl/lathe/CQ6128A.html
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Brake for small windmill?
I've volunteered to help an artist, who wants to place a number of small vertical rotor windmills in a seaside park, on top of picnic sheds. (He has permission!) The rotors will be about 6 ft...
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16 years ago
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Hass 5C indexer repair service?
Got a client with a Hass 5C indexer that keeps blowing fuses. According to the sticker inside..it was bult in 1985. Apparently Hass no longer supports this product, and the client is desperate to get...
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16 years ago
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JD-455 fix follow-up
Here's the upshot on the John Deere 455 with the non-func tranny. Check out the hydraulic schematic on if you're interested in seeing the logic; chase down through the service links until you find the...
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bond UHMW to SS
I need to bond a small stip of UHMW plastic to 304 stainless steel. How? Karl
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Reed Prentice on Craigslist (Taunton MA) $300
Boston area Craigslist {posted Wed): "I have a metal lathe I do not know much about it. It's a reed prentice maybe from 1940/ 1950. it is very heavy duty. It will take a piece of stock about 44" long...
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seal a water leak
I'm still spending my life tending to a traveling irrigator... Man, a real rain sure would be nice. I have a double collar and overcenter clamp to provide a quick connect on the four inch hose to my...
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Hardening with mercury?
I read this over at practicalmachinist. Sounds like a good application for a Cole drill. It isn't a good idea, and unsafe as hell, but somtimes in an emergency a friend of a friend's uncle once...
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Charmilles EDM Model E110 wiring
I have a Charmilles Model E110 and received the unit with all the wires disconnected. Some of them are obvious where they go but there are two wires tha I cnnot figure out where they go. There is a...
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FS: DAMA Optic Lens Grinding Machine Instruction Manual
for sale: DAMA Instruction manual in english for the FS-100 & FS-100-Micro optic lens grinding machines; factory original. exploded views & electrical schematics are still in German but easily...
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1kg Steel Melting Furnace on eBay
For those of you who might be interested, we just listed a new small steel melting induction furnace (1kg capacity, fast melt) on eBay, item # 200115158055. This unit can be run using household power....
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Gingery Books Review
Would anybody here be an owner of one of Dave Gingery's workshop from scrap series of books and be willing to write a review of it in exchange for a link to their site, maybe some xtra traffc, and...
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Lost wax vs lost foam
Hi folks, I'm undergraduating in materials engineering and I have some questions. I hope someone can help ;-) What are the advantages of lost foam when compared to lost wax? Can the lost foam process...
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telescoping tubing load question
I'm building an I-beam gantry. It's not an A-frame; rather, it is the kind with one vertical leg on each end. It will be adjustable for height. I'm planning to use 4x4x.180" wall square steel tube for...
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