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Cutting aluminum

I need a little help. I have to cut about 200 "slugs" of 1" round aluminum bars stock. I'm using my "new" to me band sa...
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posted by gjpostma
14 comments posted 20yrs posted by gjpostma

Roughing strategy

Hello all, I am starting to notice the time it takes to square blocks for some of the larger parts that I makes. Large...
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posted by bschwab
14 comments posted 20yrs posted by bschwab

Hone out an air motor?

Rebuilding my little CP (735H) impact. After getting it apart I found some rather bad rust inside the bore and it had a...
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posted by DoNotSpamthegoat4
5 comments posted 20yrs posted by DoNotSpamthegoat4

These are good prices for VFDs

Greetings All, One of the industry publications I recieve is Indrustrial Equipment News (IEN). Looking through it this...
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posted by etpm
1 comments posted 20yrs posted by etpm

Help with internal threads for 5c collet holder

I am making a 5c collet holder. I am at the point that I want to thread the holder for the collets. One set of instruct...
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posted by heyjude076
4 comments posted 20yrs posted by heyjude076

Myford ML7 Backgear Unjammed

Thank you for all who replied to my earlier thread "Myford ML7 Backgear jammed". With the assistance of an experienced...
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posted by imaperson
0 comments posted 20yrs posted by imaperson

Miike Quinn Electronics - out of business

Any craftsman that has spent any time in on the east side of the San Francisco bay knows about Mike Quinn Electronics....
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posted by jstewart
13 comments posted 20yrs posted by jstewart

VFD and 3 phase motor for the 4x6 HF bandsaw

I hope to be getting a Grizzly square column mill here before too long, and it has a three phase motor, which will nece...
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posted by cmciver
3 comments posted 20yrs posted by cmciver

Valve guide bushing material

Trying to repair a damaged air cooled motorcycle cylinder head. With largest oversized (O.D.) valve guides, still unabl...
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posted by lwmullis
10 comments posted 20yrs posted by lwmullis

Prevent shaft from sliding

Hi, I am a newbie to all this stuff. I have a bearing and a shaft like this: | | | bbb bbb bbb | | | the | is the shaft...
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posted by srandm
14 comments posted 20yrs posted by srandm

Sharpening clipper blades

What's the secret? I have a Whall clipper to do the Schnauzers and the blades are about $20 new so, I figured I could s...
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posted by tom(nospam)
11 comments posted 20yrs posted by tom(nospam)

Far China Culture & Antique

FarChina.com, a summary of chinese history, a introduction of chinese culture, a discussion of Chinese handcrafs, a sour...
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posted by ggdance
2 comments posted 20yrs posted by ggdance

L-Tec 350 Tig/stick welder manualneeded

I recently acquired this beast. came with a dozen photocopied pages out of an ops manual. Anyone have a full service man...
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posted by bjchaucer
8 comments posted 20yrs posted by bjchaucer

Atlas Benchmill from Craigslist

No association with seller, etc http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/tls/134921017.html Located in NW Wisconsin according...
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posted by cyberzl1
0 comments posted 20yrs posted by cyberzl1

I invented a new tool (maybe)

The other day I wanted to bend some 3/16 copper tubing to a 1/4" radius. I don't have a tubing bender so I turned down...
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posted by engineman1
10 comments posted 20yrs posted by engineman1