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Half done hooking up compressor in the factory

I have decided that it is not proper to call my business location a warehouse. The proper name for it is factory, becau...
23 comments posted 15yrs
posted by ignoramus20811
23 comments posted 15yrs posted by ignoramus20811

Greenhouse?

I want to grow veggies in hydroponic shelf beds in a greenhouse, year round in my mild northern California climate. I'm...
8 comments posted 15yrs
posted by Winston
8 comments posted 15yrs posted by Winston

Free Agent?

So far I've just been killing threads that had any kinds of alt. or politics cross posing in them, There are simply too...
33 comments posted 15yrs
posted by cavelamb
33 comments posted 15yrs posted by cavelamb

Some metal questions

I have completed my hoisting apparatus to lift some pieces of Corten steel up to mount on a false face along the top of...
8 comments posted 15yrs
posted by pittmanpirate
8 comments posted 15yrs posted by pittmanpirate

Best Plastic for a Bench Block?

I help coach the MIT collegiate pistol team, but end up spending half my time doing gunsmithing. We have a whole raft o...
7 comments posted 15yrs
posted by gwhite
7 comments posted 15yrs posted by gwhite

Who needs thru-spindle coolant?

Awl -- Prototypers proly don't; shops lucky enough to be doing large runs surely benefit. The Q is: at what point in pr...
11 comments posted 15yrs
posted by fitcat
11 comments posted 15yrs posted by fitcat

Small Welding Thingy!

OK, I'm not sure of the proper title for this particular machine but I've seen them around and I'm hoping you can give...
6 comments posted 15yrs
posted by Gadgetfreak2000
6 comments posted 15yrs posted by Gadgetfreak2000

Source for 800-grit sandpaper

I've used scary-sharp method for years. I put half-sheets of wet-dry Si02 paper on 1/2" plate glass. BUT, I can't find...
9 comments posted 15yrs
posted by zzyzx__
9 comments posted 15yrs posted by zzyzx__

Bending copper tubing

I have some 3/8" copper tubing that I need to bend at a tight radius. Like 2". I have the spiral bender, and another ha...
24 comments posted 15yrs
posted by pittmanpirate
24 comments posted 15yrs posted by pittmanpirate

Quiz

Can you guess what this is? http://www.flickr.com/photos/27683124@N07/6224318497/in/photostream Michael Koblic, Campbell...
4 comments posted 15yrs
posted by mkoblic
4 comments posted 15yrs posted by mkoblic

Two things:

Is there a new flock of idiots migrating in here? No offense to the resident idiots. Does your server show lots of messa...
4 comments posted 15yrs
posted by pittmanpirate
4 comments posted 15yrs posted by pittmanpirate

Alloy question

At various markets people set up stalls selling an aluminium soldering (brazing) rod Which they demonstrate filling hol...
8 comments posted 15yrs
posted by haggisz
8 comments posted 15yrs posted by haggisz

Berg sidecutters

Does any one know whether the cutting edges on Berg side cutters are hardened right through so can be ground when worn?
1 comments posted 15yrs
posted by haggisz
1 comments posted 15yrs posted by haggisz

Solder question

I'm making a wort chiller. That's just a spiral of copper tubing to cool boiling hot beer brew to put into the fermente...
13 comments posted 15yrs
posted by pittmanpirate
13 comments posted 15yrs posted by pittmanpirate