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Baldor L1410T motor capacitors

Our Baldor compressor motors have three caps, not two. The oil-filled phase shift cap is 30uf at 500V The start capacit...
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posted by lloydspinsidemindspring.com
0 comments posted 14yrs posted by lloydspinsidemindspring.com

Church of John Moses Browning

Unbeatable Browning November 15, 2011: This year, while excavating the site of the World War II crash of a British Spit...
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posted by LEFTARD TROLLS ARE DESPERATE
1 comments posted 14yrs posted by LEFTARD TROLLS ARE DESPERATE

Forklift Tire Press

I didn't know how they changed forklift tires, but seeing this item on the local Craigslist, I thought some of you migh...
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posted by GeoLane at PTD dot NET
7 comments posted 14yrs posted by GeoLane at PTD dot NET

Repaired Harbor Freight digital caliper

I have two Harbor Freight digital calipers, item #47257, and I've had=20 problems with one of them especially, where th...
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posted by paul
83 comments posted 14yrs posted by paul

Straightening Metal

I have a metal bracket that is rusted and bent. I will need to restore it by first straightening it out and then sandin...
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posted by Searcher7
4 comments posted 14yrs posted by Searcher7

This is testing? Set 415

Rob posted this set Thursday: http://55tools.blogspot.com/ Burns
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posted by burns4
8 comments posted 14yrs posted by burns4

Hand Made Mini V12 Engine

Pretty nice bit of machining skill. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=fd8_1321653527 Looks like the engine lacks ignition a...
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posted by dav1936531
3 comments posted 14yrs posted by dav1936531

Advance commercial vacuums

http://www.sweeperland.com/pdf/advance-awd315320.pdf Are those any better than Shop-vacs? thanks
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posted by ignoramus14796
2 comments posted 14yrs posted by ignoramus14796

What is this?

A flatness gauge? http://boss-proxy.chudov.com/tmp/tmp-0477.jpg.html
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posted by ignoramus4881
11 comments posted 14yrs posted by ignoramus4881

No rigid tapping afterall on the Fadal

Oops! I looked inside the Fadal and the spindle drive says on it that it is for rigid tapping. So I asked the guy I'm b...
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posted by etpm
10 comments posted 14yrs posted by etpm

Moon Disks

So, I'm kinda thinking it'd be cool to make some moon disks, like this http://www.mooneyesusa.com/shop/product.php?prod...
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posted by tim
18 comments posted 14yrs posted by tim

Speaking of Snap Rings -- Music Wire

Same reasons as for my annealing post: I'm trying to do a nicer job of mounting wheels on model airplanes. Given a piec...
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posted by tim
20 comments posted 14yrs posted by tim

Annealing music wire

I'm building model airplanes. Nearly everyone bends up their landing gear out of music wire (0.9% carbon, low alloy, ha...
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posted by tim
23 comments posted 14yrs posted by tim