⏣ General Metalworking

Feed Mini Lathe

As with many such "inexpensive" products the manual and documentation has the basic safety stuff to try and mitigate li...

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posted by none

4 comments posted 16yrs posted by none

Flex Shaft

Is there a halfway decent flax shaft tool out there? What kinda price range. I recently used my flex tools to turn some...

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posted by nospam

7 comments posted 16yrs posted by nospam

A holiday visit project

A bit of metal content: http://members.goldengate.net/dforeman/chandelier/

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posted by dforeman

16 comments posted 16yrs posted by dforeman

insulating underground pipe

There are places where my water line are slightly above the frost zone. i could not help it as there were lots of obstr...

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posted by stryped1

4 comments posted 16yrs posted by stryped1

Followup: We have rotation

Went out to the shop today with my trusty Fluke 12, I saw up to 300Vac out there. WTF. Checked each side of the centert...

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posted by clutch

3 comments posted 16yrs posted by clutch

Cool Metal Working Video: Building The Worlds Largest Truck

This video is about 43 minutes long, but is well worth watching. It shows the construction process involved in building...

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posted by dav1936531

8 comments posted 16yrs posted by dav1936531

Polishing aluminum

I need to make a set of the mounting channels for a neo-angle shower stall. I have the doors and the side channels, jus...

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posted by spamless

4 comments posted 16yrs posted by spamless

First Thing I Ever Turned

Ok, I am ridiculously satisfied with myself at the moment. I took a perfectly good stainless steel bolt and turned it i...

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posted by nospam

18 comments posted 16yrs posted by nospam

OT: For those that like heavy metal (gun related)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TC2xTCb_GU If you like guns, take a listen, if you don't. Don't waste your time. Wes

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posted by clutch

6 comments posted 16yrs posted by clutch

Hobart Beta Mig

Got a Hobart 250 amp Beta Mig from Craigs list for 100 bucks. Owner had two, and didn't know why this one stopped worki...

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posted by msmith5242

6 comments posted 16yrs posted by msmith5242

Extending lathe spindle

I was thinking with sadness about my Clausing lathe. It is a totally great lathe, but 4-5 inches near the chuck are ver...

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posted by ignoramus27446

13 comments posted 16yrs posted by ignoramus27446

WTB 2" Aluminum 6" diameter

I need two pieces of aluminum 2" thick and 6" in diameter...or a piece(s) I can get that size out of. If you have any;...

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posted by aasberry

10 comments posted 16yrs posted by aasberry

Machining a square section O ring groove

I need to machine a round billet of stainless steel on its flat face with a square section groove to take an O ring. Th...

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posted by nospam

5 comments posted 16yrs posted by nospam

masonry drill warning

rec.crafts.metalworking masonry drill warning Anyone know why a 1/4 masonry drill has a warning "don't use on a drill pr...

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posted by ht

18 comments posted 16yrs posted by ht

Oil viscosities

LMS recommends Mobil 1 for lubricating mini-mills. I picked up a bottle of 5W-30 and have been using it. I noticed that...

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posted by mkoblic

9 comments posted 16yrs posted by mkoblic