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restoring a cast iron dutch oven

Got a Dutch oven pot, which has gotten rusty. Not a little spot of rust, nor a bit of rust, but the "got left out in th...
6 comments posted 4yrs
posted by phamp
6 comments posted 4yrs posted by phamp

Handle model # HCW-135G

Handle for a WellSetting power feed
1 comments posted 4yrs
posted by Steve
1 comments posted 4yrs posted by Steve

Remnants of Jumbo

General Groves spent $12 million on Jumbo, a steel cylinder 10 feet in diameter and 25 feet long. Its walls were 14 inch...
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posted by bl
0 comments posted 4yrs posted by bl

Expanding drum for sanding inside of a pipe/tube?

If there is such a thing, what is it called? In other words, you can sand the inside of a pipe/tube, like for slightly i...
7 comments posted 4yrs
posted by always.look
7 comments posted 4yrs posted by always.look

Power feed blowup

A few weeks ago I was going to use my power feed on the mill to get a uniform travel speed for a MIG weld . Don't know...
11 comments posted 5yrs
posted by Snag_one
11 comments posted 5yrs posted by Snag_one

propane tank won't open (2025 Update)

On Thursday, July 1, 2021 at 8:04:04 PM UTC-4, snipped-for-privacy@ccanoemail.ca wrote in alt.home.repair: > > > > > >S...
4 comments posted 5yrs
posted by bruce2bowser
4 comments posted 5yrs posted by bruce2bowser

Re: 7018 fillet vertical down

I wish that didn't make the current in-employment demography run scared from me, here in Britain. "Post-industrial" see...
0 comments posted 5yrs
posted by muratlanne
0 comments posted 5yrs posted by muratlanne

Bendix gear end clamp

Hello Gents, I took the starter out of my John Deere 440. It's got some weird clamp thingie that holds the bendix gear...
26 comments posted 5yrs
posted by ggherold
26 comments posted 5yrs posted by ggherold

I Was Bad Today

I'm mounting a set of rails in the bed of my 3/4 ton truck for a removable goose neck or fifth wheel hitch. Either or....
3 comments posted 5yrs
posted by none
3 comments posted 5yrs posted by none

Pressed-together crankshafts

Just how strong are built-up crankshafts? They're common in very small engines, some of which seem rather highly stress...
58 comments posted 5yrs
posted by bp
58 comments posted 5yrs posted by bp