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Oh That's Annoying as Frack! (on topic)

Its on topic. Every mill under power in the shop (except the no name mill drill) uses air for something. The new air dr...
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OT: The Weather

Its been 109-115F thee last couple weeks. Temps stayed under 106 the last few days, and its only 102 right now. On a dr...
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mining and mineral thread

Success a few days ago, after more than a month of "chafing", trying to find the right thing to do: http://weldsmith.co...
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Oops. Times 2

1TB Micro SD cards are about $5664 dollars per ounce. Roughly 28.34 grams per ounce times 2 since its a half gram. OOPS!...
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OT: Value of THINGS

Before tax and other fees: A 1TB micro SD card weighs about 0.5 grams and costs about $100. That is $2834 dollars per o...
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OT: Paranoid Superstition

I feel sometimes like as soon as I say something positive about a vendor or a customer things are going to go badly on...
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For Snag - And Any Airgun Junky

I picked up a refurbished Hatsan Bullmaster in .25 caliber. Its less powerful than either of my other .25 air rifles, b...
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Unplanned Upgrade

Yesterday I was using an air drill on the work bench on my CNC machine room. I stage blanks on that bench and do some m...
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Saved a wad today

The PTO clutch on my old JD 317 died recently , and today I got around to figuring out why . The rivets that hold the c...
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Who's Working Today

I grew up in the desert 60 miles from town working in a country grocery store. We only closed 3 days a year and the 4th...
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Harbor Freight Vs McMaster Carr - FRL

FRL - Common abbreviation for Filter Regular Lubricator. The top of the L on the FRL for the power draw bar on my South...
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Compression test and break-in oil

I decided just for giggles to do a compression test on the motor I just pulled from my log splitter . Got around 50 PSI...
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I Set it One Fire

I was aggressively pushing a 3/8 HSS drill though a piece of 304 SS round bar and I set the light cutting oil I was usi...
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MOP steel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eglin_steelYield is around 200,000 PSI, exceeding a Grade 8 bolt at 150,000 PSI. It accom...
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Precision ?

I have to replace the engine on my log splitter* ... fortunately I happen to have a suitable engine on hand for the rep...
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