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Machine Abuse

Ran into this 6 min. video and personally I wouldn't do this to a vertical mill. Cutting refractory clay and lining up a...
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posted by SW
2 comments posted 15yrs posted by SW

OT: House wiring ideas needed

My brother bought a house 2 years ago, and remodeled the basement. Older house, no ground wires on the overhead lights....
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posted by fusion640
43 comments posted 15yrs posted by fusion640

Q about Lab Volt 5300 CNC lathe

Anyone familiar with this? http://dallas.craigslist.org/mdf/tls/2126003075.html Is it obsolete? Is it capable of doing...
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posted by burkheimer
9 comments posted 15yrs posted by burkheimer

What is it? Set 368

I need some help with two of them this week: http://55tools.blogspot.com/2010/12/set-368.html Rob
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posted by rhvp65
13 comments posted 15yrs posted by rhvp65

It Makes a Fine Drill Press

Well, I got the major problems fixed with the little mill/drill. It's now got a universal draw bar, and adaptors for bo...
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posted by onebikenut
3 comments posted 15yrs posted by onebikenut

Metal content- making pierced tin lanterns

This shows how a more or less simple thing can become a big deal. http://www.spaco.org/Blacksmithing/TinLantern/PiercedT...
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posted by spaco
4 comments posted 15yrs posted by spaco

Your Fave BBQ Design / Tweaks You'd Make?

Hello All, I'm prompted to post this because of the earlier thread here [ Son's BBQ Pit Project ] by a dad whose son ma...
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posted by Hiyah
5 comments posted 15yrs posted by Hiyah

Can anyone ID this Detroit Diesel?

http://igor.chudov.com/tmp/Detroit-Diesel.jpg What attracted me to it was that the air intake (or exhaust) on the turbo...
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posted by ignoramus1592
56 comments posted 15yrs posted by ignoramus1592

Can this be used as a 5th axis?

anyone would have an idea how hard is it to fit a servo motor to this one http://igor.chudov.com/tmp/small-rotary-table....
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posted by ignoramus1592
11 comments posted 15yrs posted by ignoramus1592

Repulsion Induction motor

I've got a ~ 50 year old Wagner 5 hp repulsion induction motor that's been sitting around forever. I decided to put it...
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posted by msmith5242
4 comments posted 15yrs posted by msmith5242

Antenna tower hinge

I have an antenna tower in concrete behind my garage that has my local tv station antenna. It is a big yagi type antenn...
33 comments posted 15yrs
posted by stryped1
33 comments posted 15yrs posted by stryped1