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OT Where can I buy a bolt for a Mosin Nagant

One with a bent handle would be good, but even a straight handle bolt would be great. Looked in google and did not find...
21 comments posted 15yrs
posted by ignoramus21149
21 comments posted 15yrs posted by ignoramus21149

Sunday scores

Huot index with 8 USA HSS Silver and Deming drill bits, 1/2" shank, 9/16 to 1". All new except 3/4", which is almost ne...
14 comments posted 15yrs
posted by ignoramus24898
14 comments posted 15yrs posted by ignoramus24898

wring out a lot of wire

I pulled to the old servo drives out of my Matsurra bed mill and got all the wire run cables separated as much as possi...
27 comments posted 15yrs
posted by karltownsend.NOT
27 comments posted 15yrs posted by karltownsend.NOT

Drilling and tapping 200+ 3/8" holes in 3/4" aluminum

I bought a couple of 3/4" thick aluminum fixture plates. http://igor.chudov.com/tmp/Fixture-Plate.jpg It was a local sa...
50 comments posted 15yrs
posted by ignoramus24898
50 comments posted 15yrs posted by ignoramus24898

Repairing a mainspring

This is in an old camera actually. There's a spring that is 'charged' by winding the camera and flips up the viewfinder...
5 comments posted 15yrs
posted by Paul
5 comments posted 15yrs posted by Paul

OT: Inexpensive eyeglasses

Got my new prescription, all details, etc. Unfortunately for me, Zenni does not do prism. Any other recommendations?
6 comments posted 15yrs
posted by fusion640
6 comments posted 15yrs posted by fusion640

New machine shop in Seattle area

Found this story this morning. This guy may have too much money. Wonder if he has ever even operated any of the equipme...
17 comments posted 15yrs
posted by co_farmer
17 comments posted 15yrs posted by co_farmer

Sunday score

Every day I look here and wish I lived in a country with Harbor Freight stores, scrap merchants and used machinery deal...
8 comments posted 15yrs
posted by invalid
8 comments posted 15yrs posted by invalid

Question about ring rollers

Using a cheap ring roller (which I have not purchased at this point) such as http://www.harborfreight.com/tubing-roller...
7 comments posted 15yrs
posted by fgsdfgrr
7 comments posted 15yrs posted by fgsdfgrr

fa: anyone use Pelican Stealthlites?

I found a small pile of the now discontinued Xenon lamp cartridges for the rechargeable StealthLite - offering them chea...
0 comments posted 15yrs
posted by nobody
0 comments posted 15yrs posted by nobody

Old link v-belt disassembly

I am rehabbing an old Sears/AMT radial drill press. I have some old (~50 year) link style V-belts that would seem to be...
2 comments posted 15yrs
posted by mungedkevin
2 comments posted 15yrs posted by mungedkevin

Millrite MVI drawbar

Recently, I noticed the drawbar on my Millrite vertical mill was beginning to feel soft when I tightened it. This MVI h...
2 comments posted 15yrs
posted by joegwinn
2 comments posted 15yrs posted by joegwinn

PCB Micro drills and micro end mills"

eBay is full of those: http://shop.ebay.com/?_nkw=%22micro+drill%22+carbide or similar tiny carbide end mills. My quest...
11 comments posted 15yrs
posted by ignoramus10035
11 comments posted 15yrs posted by ignoramus10035

Making an alloy

Ive a friend that is making a replica of the Iron age Battersea shield, found in the river Thames in Victorian times. N...
8 comments posted 15yrs
posted by ted.frater
8 comments posted 15yrs posted by ted.frater