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Any Flexible Shaft Gurus out there?
I'm looking for an item identical to the following: Item #:6426K203 It has to have 1/2" OD x 5/8" or so ends on it and approximately a 1/2" "shaft casing" so I can tie it to my existing device. Anyone...
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securing lead metal to wood with methacrylate adhesive?
I have a project that requires securing lead to plywood. Would a methacrylate adhesive be suitable for this? Thank you.
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AR-15 & M16 Bolt Carrier groups
It seems the bolt carrier group is the hard to get part for AR-15's currently. I have found old Colt M16 A1 parts kits, "good to excellent" minus lower receiver and barrel (plus missing auto-sear or...
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Build my own luber/sizer dies
After someone slapped me in the head..reminding me that I own a fair selection of pretty good machine tools...Ive decided to build my own lube/sizer dies, to fit the (4) RCBS/Lyman lubricators I own....
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Strange steel that is very hard to cut with a bandsaw
My small bandsaw with a Starrett blade works extremely well to cut regular steel. I have been cutting a lot of 4-6 inch rouds without a problem. Everything else, that looks funky, I test with a file...
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Rigid Conduit vs Regular Iron pipe
Can any one tell me what the difference between rigid conduit and iron pipe? inner finish threads on the pipe and in the fittings and any other significant differences. TIA CP
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How to build a file rack?
Im going through drawers and tool boxes and dug out my files. A good 75 or more of them, Mill files, knife files, rasps, half round, triangular, square, cant mill bastards etc etc Ive been keeping...
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Video of a cutting tool removing metal
Cool.
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any reasons not to use a flycutter as hole saw?
I've got one of these little things for size, the arbot is morse #1 and drawbolt is 1/4-20 Is there a reason NOT to use it as hole saw of sorts and cut holes in aluminum sheet that's just a tad under...
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What is it? Set 482
This week's set has been posted: Rob
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Astronomer
Margaret Campbell-Brown, an astronomer at Canada's University of Western Ontario, says that the Russian meteor was "56 feet (17 meters) across, weighed more than 700,000 tons and was moving about 18...
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The Ante of Design..... and whoyakidding's delusions....
Awl -- I thought the subthread with the semi-asstute-but-still-deluded Whoyakidding should get its own thread, cuz it's a really important topic, imo butt another facet of Le Pubic's Global...
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WTB upper half of a Clausing mill
I have a base, column, table etc. Missing is everything that sits on top of the column. I am looking for a milling head and the support pieces that I can adapt to this base. If I can find a head I can...
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sharpen a pencil sharpener?
The discussion about sharpening taps in the "old taps and dies, worth anything?" thread brings to mind a question of mine. I've got a couple of old planetary style pencil sharpeners which tend to chew...
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How much extra HP from burning nitro?
So I was wondering, from a post here about a bone stock engine running nitro methane instead of gasoline, how much extra horsepower could a stock engine produce just by changing fuels from gas to...
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