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Water line and temp

It has turned unusually cold here. I used that black poly line to run water line before it got cold. I tested the line,...
4 comments posted 16yrs
posted by stryped1
4 comments posted 16yrs posted by stryped1

Off to LA

See you lads in a few days..Im off to LA. "Ill be back. " Gunner "I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opin...
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posted by gunner
17 comments posted 16yrs posted by gunner

Engraving

Ok, some things are a whole lot more complicated than you would think. Engraving for example. The irregularities in thi...
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posted by none
7 comments posted 16yrs posted by none

Slick vise-jaw fixturing idear?

Awl -- Luckily, I found a set of jaws I had made, for milling multiple 5/8'ish round rods on their ends -- facing, tapp...
5 comments posted 16yrs
posted by UNfitcat
5 comments posted 16yrs posted by UNfitcat

New high strength steel

Carpenter Tech announced a patented high strength steel that does not contain Cobalt. In fact reading the data sheet, i...
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posted by dcaster
4 comments posted 16yrs posted by dcaster

Electrical questions

Ok...got the Larios Horizontal mill all painted and now its time to do the electrical..and am running into a snag... Th...
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posted by gunner
26 comments posted 16yrs posted by gunner

Anyone want to buy a Hardinge TFB?

Im pondering selling my Hardinge TFB. This is largely the same as a Hardinge tool room lathe, Turn/Face/Bore, but is in...
4 comments posted 16yrs
posted by gunner
4 comments posted 16yrs posted by gunner

Metal cutting chop saw basics

There's more to running a metal cutting (abrasive wheel) chop saw than just pulling the switch, as most of you know. Ju...
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posted by spaco
13 comments posted 16yrs posted by spaco

More mini lathe issues

I am trying to make my first real part. A replacement pivot pin for a lock blade knife. It's a cheap knife. I could hav...
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posted by nospam
29 comments posted 16yrs posted by nospam

more basic stamp IO

My winter project is a microcontroller to ventilate and water my greenhouse/high tunnel. Parallax has a sale on control...
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posted by karltownsend.NOT
35 comments posted 16yrs posted by karltownsend.NOT

Weird hex size

Hello. I have M3-threaded hex spacers with about 4.53 mm across flats. What could be the nominal size be ? It's way too...
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posted by cheney
4 comments posted 16yrs posted by cheney

graphic shows hardness zonal changes 1990 - 2006

http://www.arborday.org/media/mapchanges.cfm Don't know how true it is, but they are independent of the USA. Martin
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posted by lionslair
0 comments posted 16yrs posted by lionslair