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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 decid...
6 comments posted 13yrs
posted by gunnerasch
6 comments posted 13yrs posted by gunnerasch

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...
16 comments posted 13yrs
posted by ignoramus9672
16 comments posted 13yrs posted by ignoramus9672

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...
38 comments posted 13yrs
posted by pilgrim
38 comments posted 13yrs posted by pilgrim

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...
106 comments posted 13yrs
posted by gunnerasch
106 comments posted 13yrs posted by gunnerasch

Video of a cutting tool removing metal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=mRuSYQ5Npek#! Cool.
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posted by spamTHISbrp
1 comments posted 13yrs posted by spamTHISbrp

any reasons not to use a flycutter as hole saw?

I've got one of these little things http://www.sherline.com/images/3052pic.jpg for size, the arbot is morse #1 and draw...
18 comments posted 13yrs
posted by presence
18 comments posted 13yrs posted by presence

What is it? Set 482

http://55tools.blogspot.com/ Rob
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posted by rhvp65
12 comments posted 13yrs posted by rhvp65

Astronomer

http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/27/world/europe/russia-meteor/?hpt=hp_t2 Margaret Campbell-Brown, an astronomer at Canada's...
29 comments posted 13yrs
posted by ignoramus15027
29 comments posted 13yrs posted by ignoramus15027

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...
12 comments posted 13yrs
posted by burkheimer
12 comments posted 13yrs posted by burkheimer

sharpen a pencil sharpener?

The discussion about sharpening taps in the "old taps and dies, worth anything?" thread brings to mind a question of mi...
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posted by *
14 comments posted 13yrs posted by *

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 extr...
95 comments posted 13yrs
posted by etpm
95 comments posted 13yrs posted by etpm

Stages of a proposal

I went to one of my regular, but occasional customers, last week. They have a CNC machine, the fluid cooler isn't worki...
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posted by cayoung61***scamblock
0 comments posted 13yrs posted by cayoung61***scamblock

Hammer ID marks?

Ive been cleaning up my tools, putting new handles on the (rather large) number of hammer heads Ive aquired over the la...
4 comments posted 13yrs
posted by gunnerasch
4 comments posted 13yrs posted by gunnerasch

How to set up a frequently used bandsaw

I am foreseeing a project that will see a lot of bandsawing. Right now my setup has a bandsaw, a T shaped support on on...
8 comments posted 13yrs
posted by ignoramus11077
8 comments posted 13yrs posted by ignoramus11077