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Less than perfect online auction listing

I stopped by today to pick up a couple of things from a liquidation auction that was conducted online. While waiting fo...
2 comments posted 17yrs
posted by ignoramus10773
2 comments posted 17yrs posted by ignoramus10773

OT Somalia Pirates

What's your idea for dealing with the Somalia Pirate situation? I thought it would be good if the military could put th...
34 comments posted 17yrs
posted by regor
34 comments posted 17yrs posted by regor

Building the Stuart Victoria

Don't know if this is of interest, but here is a little metalworking project I've started and it was easier to share th...
9 comments posted 17yrs
posted by steve.withnell
9 comments posted 17yrs posted by steve.withnell

Space Power

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30198977/[ PG&E makes deal for space solar power Utility to buy orbit-generated electricity...
19 comments posted 17yrs
posted by Clhuprich
19 comments posted 17yrs posted by Clhuprich

Patents on the Blumlein Bridge

It took some futzing, but I figured out how to get copies of British (well, European) patents: Go to (for English). Ent...
3 comments posted 17yrs
posted by joegwinn
3 comments posted 17yrs posted by joegwinn

now here's an old tool to think about

I never would have known what this was for if I wasn't told - so you can copy the photo and amaze your friends http://c...
7 comments posted 17yrs
posted by nobody
7 comments posted 17yrs posted by nobody

fa: hydraulic pump adapter

these were available after WWII/Korea so that folks could buy surplus hydraulic pumps and use them productively in thei...
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posted by nobody
0 comments posted 17yrs posted by nobody

Bicycle pedal threads

Who's the idiot that made these things 9/16-20? Now I had to order a special tap to fix my sons bike. MSC does not even...
12 comments posted 17yrs
posted by rbraun333
12 comments posted 17yrs posted by rbraun333

comparable strenght of angle iron

I have sized 2 1/2 x 2 1/2 x 1/4" angle iron for a project, I wonder if an angle with a longer leg parallel to the load...
7 comments posted 17yrs
posted by granita3
7 comments posted 17yrs posted by granita3

2000 Dakota head gasket help

Well, been working on this v6 2000 3.9 l Dakota that my brother said overheated and started blowing white smoke. I have...
17 comments posted 17yrs
posted by dgilbert
17 comments posted 17yrs posted by dgilbert

Argon CO2 mixer

The recent thread on gas bottles prompts this question... I have a bottle of CO2 and another of Argon. And a bottle of...
3 comments posted 17yrs
posted by karltownsend.NOT
3 comments posted 17yrs posted by karltownsend.NOT

Macine Speed Formula / Ratio

I have seen posted here before a formula or ration for machining speed. I didn't understand it at the time, and still d...
4 comments posted 17yrs
posted by nospam
4 comments posted 17yrs posted by nospam

Precision Electronic Levels - The Blumlein Bridge

The standard high-precision way to use a three-plate differential capacitor movement transducer is a transformer ratio...
0 comments posted 17yrs
posted by joegwinn
0 comments posted 17yrs posted by joegwinn