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What is it? Set 372

Just posted this week's set: http://55tools.blogspot.com/2011/01/set-372.html Rob

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posted by rhvp65

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Progress report for today

http://www.flickr.com/photos/deserttraveler/ What I got done before the wind hit. Steve

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posted by pittmanpirate

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Opinions about end mill quality

I just won a pair of new Duramill 5/32" five flute end mils( ULT-50156) online. I paid $9.61 & shipping. The OEM prices...

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posted by mike.terrell

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Routing Power Steering Hydraulics without getting Hosed

Pursuant to getting "burban*" running (http://www.ccwebster.net/robintim/Burban.jpg,http://www.ccwebster.net/robintim/)...

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posted by tim

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O-Ring groove question Caution! Metalworking content! ;-)

The machinist called me over and asked me to help him design an o-ring groove. We looked up a chart at http://www.parke...

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posted by richg

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Knee Automation - Iggy

I was thinking about your comments on knee automation and had this thought. Do you really need to CNC control the knee...

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posted by onebikenut

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More on Steppers (Servos rule steppers drool types need not respond LOL)

I stopped by today to visit a buddy I haven't seen in a couple years to buy a motorcycle trailer. He's been out of stat...

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posted by onebikenut

9 comments posted 15yrs posted by onebikenut

Toronto area tool supplier plug

A new guy getting started in Richmond Hill.. reasonable quality mostly Chinese stuff (though some of the end mills I bo...

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posted by speffSNIP

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Shop Food Haute Cuisine

It's too cold today (-20°C) to run across to the canteen to get something for morning break. So we split a banana lengt...

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posted by snell-p

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Spoolgunning aluminum

I haven't been on RCM for ages...glad to see it's still alive. I'm working on a project in aluminum angle and I've been...

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Made an actual real world part with my cheap China tools yesterday

Ok, nothing special. A buddy of mine had a broken plastic bushing in the top of his seat pedestal on his bass boat. I t...

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posted by nospam

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Neat project

--Looks like the Swiss have gotten past the cuckoo clock fixation! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vcsg-TImc9o --It's pre...

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posted by steamer

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Buck Ajust-Tru disassembly?

The patient is a badly abused 5" 3 jaw bought yesterday at Cabin Fever. The scroll/jaws are frozen. What is the procedur...

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posted by mungedkevin

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Painting cast aluminum parts

So today I left the 15th annual Cabin Fever Expo in York, PA lightheaded because of the engine exhaust fumes but not em...

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posted by info_at_air-space_dot_us

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Cummins throttle

We got a Cummins marine diesel 6.0 liter model 450C in our boat... The throttle quit idling down, stays a couple hundre...

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posted by karltownsend.NOT

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