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OT: Credit Card charge

I recently sensed something was wrong with my cars suspension. We took the car into the local Kennesaw Georgia America'...
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posted by usenetreply
23 comments posted 15yrs posted by usenetreply

regrind mill table

My CNC mill is gettin' tired. It's got 11 thou backlash in X which is a ton on a CNC machine. I've only lived with it f...
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posted by karltownsend.NOT
4 comments posted 15yrs posted by karltownsend.NOT

Rust protecting 12L14

My second attempt to make that dog clutch, is to make it from a proper diameter 12L14 round bar. It seems to work a lit...
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posted by ignoramus562
12 comments posted 15yrs posted by ignoramus562

Peltiers

How much real cooling can you get with the cheap peltiers you find for sale on Ebay. My shop gets pretty hot in the sum...
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posted by alarm_wizard
21 comments posted 15yrs posted by alarm_wizard

Setting compound for 30 minute angle?

I'm trying to turn a front sight base that will fit a tapered barrel. After some hand-to-calculator fighting, I came ou...
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posted by ohland
19 comments posted 15yrs posted by ohland

End mills break when making a dog clutch

I am trying to make a dog clutch that mates with the knee crank and replaces the crank handle:...
44 comments posted 15yrs
posted by ignoramus17758
44 comments posted 15yrs posted by ignoramus17758

Gun Parts solvent/cleaning question

There's some gun people here, so thought I'd ask. Also, guns do have a slight metal content. I want to wash some gun pa...
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posted by pittmanpirate
9 comments posted 15yrs posted by pittmanpirate

Type of steel in large auger

I asked this in the welding group, but received zero answers. We have a 2' diameter earth auger that is over 7' long, a...
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posted by dgriff23
3 comments posted 15yrs posted by dgriff23

Ping Gunner: Rainy VietNam?

I thought you might be interested in these videos. Ben Livingston (interviewed in these videos by Alex Jones) was invol...
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posted by dav1936531
4 comments posted 15yrs posted by dav1936531

Weld filler chemical composition

Of inconel and hastelloy, which would be closer to plain ol' ordinary nichrome, like you'd use in a heating element? Tha...
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posted by richg
9 comments posted 15yrs posted by richg

computer terminology question

We went with a different ISP after our previous (current, but not yet disconnected) one had problems with rain, snow, b...
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posted by pittmanpirate
18 comments posted 15yrs posted by pittmanpirate

Started my AMP crimper collection

I wanted to be able to crimp AMP/Tyco Stratotherm connectors correctly but the new price of a 46447 crimper was scary s...
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posted by djb
6 comments posted 15yrs posted by djb

welding 303SS

So I gave it a try today and it worked out better than I had hoped. And I got some pics. Full directory: http://www.gis...
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posted by notme
2 comments posted 15yrs posted by notme