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factional HP gast vane pump

My new-old stock gast rotart vane pump just died. I though it broke a shear pin as only the motor was still spinning. I...
13 comments posted 9yrs
posted by presence
13 comments posted 9yrs posted by presence

Fun with scrap ( diamond coated stainless disks )

At the scrap yard they had a tri-wall container with a bunch of stainless s teel disks. 4.25 inches in diameter and 5 m...
8 comments posted 9yrs
posted by dcaster
8 comments posted 9yrs posted by dcaster

Lead Burning plates inside old lead acid cells

I have read quite a bit about lead burning, but it does not seem appropriat e for my requirement. From a previous life...
33 comments posted 9yrs
posted by georgewbell
33 comments posted 9yrs posted by georgewbell

Forming tap

I was rummaging through my tap collection and came across a couple of forming taps. I have no idea how they got there,...
16 comments posted 9yrs
posted by BobEngelhardt
16 comments posted 9yrs posted by BobEngelhardt

OT My third electric bike

Took so long to make. This might be the easiest to build electric bike there is, versus power and reliability. https://...
4 comments posted 9yrs
posted by always.look
4 comments posted 9yrs posted by always.look

Bridgeport Mill Making Knocking Or Clicking Noise

A friend of mine has a Bridgeport knee mill making a loud clicking or knock ing sound in the head. I could not find any...
14 comments posted 9yrs
posted by kujans0
14 comments posted 9yrs posted by kujans0

arrgh - forte agent issue

Greetings and salutations A heads up. There is a "Y2K" problem for agent users. Seems that Forte hard coded after the e...
0 comments posted 9yrs
posted by phamp
0 comments posted 9yrs posted by phamp

Microwave Outrage

I am pissed. Kellyanne Conway has just revealed the existance of Obammys shadow government secret microwave camera spyi...
23 comments posted 9yrs
posted by GummerAsch
23 comments posted 9yrs posted by GummerAsch

Off topic but of interest on rcm

I'll bet practically everybody who posts on rcm has an inkjet printer. I have refilled cartridges in the past with vari...
1 comments posted 9yrs
posted by etpm
1 comments posted 9yrs posted by etpm

External ballistics

Yes, I know this isn't strictly metalworking, but there are plenty of gun people here. A howitzer fires, with elevation...
15 comments posted 9yrs
posted by daveb
15 comments posted 9yrs posted by daveb

Work Clothes

I saw this on Gizmag this morning and thought it fit. Some of us are hard on clothing in the shop or work. Others are t...
84 comments posted 9yrs
posted by ljaques
84 comments posted 9yrs posted by ljaques

My Dalton Lathe

Hi, I?m trying to I.D. an old Dalton I just got. ( Oregon, March 2017) It has Dalton Six cast on it and the end plate s...
2 comments posted 9yrs
posted by TLouisJ
2 comments posted 9yrs posted by TLouisJ

Free NASA software

How did I ever get along without a 3D model of the Viking Lander or the Wide-Field Infrared Telescope? Ora calculating...
6 comments posted 9yrs
posted by edhuntress2
6 comments posted 9yrs posted by edhuntress2

OT: Well it was nice while it lasted

The past couple of weeks, the high signal to noise ratio on rcm was kind of eerie - thinking that Gummer had frozen to...
0 comments posted 9yrs
posted by rangerssuck
0 comments posted 9yrs posted by rangerssuck