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Cleaning an HVLP gun

I picked up a used Campbell Hausfeld HV2500 2-stage turbine and HVLP gun, but without manuals. I've never owned this ty...
4 comments posted 17yrs
posted by GeoLane at PTD dot NET
4 comments posted 17yrs posted by GeoLane at PTD dot NET

No metal content - Interesting morning

I had a call this morning from one of those prerecorded robots. I started to just hang up, but listened long enough to...
7 comments posted 17yrs
posted by dgriff23
7 comments posted 17yrs posted by dgriff23

Electric water heater settings

OK, I feel inadequate...I can't find a water temp. setting on my Rheem water heater, Do I need to start taking things a...
19 comments posted 17yrs
posted by Buerste
19 comments posted 17yrs posted by Buerste

Vise jaw deflection

Awl -- Proly could calc this on a program called BeamBoy, but I'd have to dig it up, and re-figger how to use it, etc....
12 comments posted 17yrs
posted by UNfitcat
12 comments posted 17yrs posted by UNfitcat

OT: Got snookered by the teevee ad

While crusin' channels one recent evening and not finding much, I tripped on a fishin' show which turned out to be an i...
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posted by dforeman
30 comments posted 17yrs posted by dforeman

Refining lead

Does anybody know if there is any kind of easy way to refine lead, take wheel weights and get them to nearly pure lead....
9 comments posted 17yrs
posted by ms_smith11
9 comments posted 17yrs posted by ms_smith11

OT: Spectacles

A few months back there was an RCM thread about eyeglasses in which more than one of you mentioned good sources for ine...
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posted by warnerf
10 comments posted 17yrs posted by warnerf

Got Kasenit?

Hello all, wondering if anyone out there has some Kasenit they'd like to sell me? I guess I could just buy some but......
21 comments posted 17yrs
posted by prfesser
21 comments posted 17yrs posted by prfesser

OT Dow @ Jul 1 betting pool

This is a reminder of bids entered, for Dow at close of Jul 1, 2009. Bids cannot be added or altered any longer. SteveB...
9 comments posted 17yrs
posted by ignoramus21372
9 comments posted 17yrs posted by ignoramus21372

Precision Electronic Levels - The Germans Arrive

As mentioned before, I was able to read the German-language book on electronic levels well enough to tell that the book...
21 comments posted 17yrs
posted by joegwinn
21 comments posted 17yrs posted by joegwinn

Which methond is better

There are two local machine shops that can work my cast cylinder heads. Both will mill them if warped for 30 bucks a pi...
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posted by dgilbert
2 comments posted 17yrs posted by dgilbert

What is it? Set 279

Might be another difficult set, there are three that I need assistance figuring out: http://55tools.blogspot.com/ Rob
66 comments posted 17yrs
posted by rhvp65
66 comments posted 17yrs posted by rhvp65

Interesting metalworking

--Just put up some photos of cannons, etc, from last weekend's cannon shoot. Tales to tell, but not here, heh. http://w...
5 comments posted 17yrs
posted by steamer
5 comments posted 17yrs posted by steamer

Russian made Wall-E

Very fun pictures. http://digg.com/d1oDci
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posted by ignoramus14359
12 comments posted 17yrs posted by ignoramus14359

OT- Taskbar

I have Win XP - SP2. Somewhere along the line I must have clicked the wrong place, now my taskbar has 2 tiers. I have t...
11 comments posted 17yrs
posted by engineman1
11 comments posted 17yrs posted by engineman1