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OT latest eBay shakeup

Control and profits. Under recent changes, sellers may only accept PayPal payments (PayPal being part of eBay's company...
35 comments posted 17yrs
posted by wb_wildbill
35 comments posted 17yrs posted by wb_wildbill

Saw Blades And HSS References

I'm wondering if someone can disprove or absolutely confirm that saw blades do not consist of HSS. The term Bimetal or...
38 comments posted 17yrs
posted by wb_wildbill
38 comments posted 17yrs posted by wb_wildbill

working with high speed steel

so I have a tooling project that involves a bit of reworked HSS jointer knife. I want to make a wood bodied spokeshave...
24 comments posted 17yrs
posted by bridgerfafc
24 comments posted 17yrs posted by bridgerfafc

Soluble coolant and freezing temp

I am worried about coolant freezing in my cold saw, accidentally. This is northern Illinois, so temperatures of 0 to -5...
16 comments posted 17yrs
posted by ignoramus13690
16 comments posted 17yrs posted by ignoramus13690

More Home Invasions / 911

Don't you guys be so hard on the poor little old home invaders, they're just Christmas shopping! ;-) Errr... Maybe they...
5 comments posted 17yrs
posted by arp
5 comments posted 17yrs posted by arp

Target Acquired !

Just had an interesting conversation with a former coworker and friend . The local property management businesses are s...
3 comments posted 17yrs
posted by snagone
3 comments posted 17yrs posted by snagone

OT: rock polishers

My sister in law told me her son would like a rock tumbler. Great, easy Christmas gift. I start looking and 100+ bucks...
15 comments posted 17yrs
posted by clutch
15 comments posted 17yrs posted by clutch

Automotive Welding

Any precautions I need to take before doing a repair in the bed of a 2007 pickup truck? Is it necessary to disconnect th...
15 comments posted 17yrs
posted by nospam
15 comments posted 17yrs posted by nospam

Springy steel

I'm envisioning a gadget I can see a use for.... It would be made from spring steel, say coat-hanger diameter, in s spe...
19 comments posted 17yrs
posted by wb8foz
19 comments posted 17yrs posted by wb8foz

OT: Amero Hint?

I watched a portion of Weekly Business Review or something like that this evening. They had three guests on there and a...
68 comments posted 17yrs
posted by arp
68 comments posted 17yrs posted by arp

Surface table

I'm looking at getting some sort of surface table for doing measurements and layout in my home hobby shop (so cost is a...
20 comments posted 17yrs
posted by paul
20 comments posted 17yrs posted by paul

Bandsaw vs cold saw

I'm probably going to open a question that sounds like the 'red states vs blue states' but I gotta ask: I deal with a U...
13 comments posted 17yrs
posted by spamless
13 comments posted 17yrs posted by spamless

Rhodes vertical shaper

I just got my own Xmas present. http://cgi.ebay.com:80/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=350125796308 By chance, does anyo...
9 comments posted 17yrs
posted by karltownsend.NOT
9 comments posted 17yrs posted by karltownsend.NOT

16 inch gun details

Some additional details of the 16 inch guns previously discussed, including both a breakdown of the gun and ballistic c...
4 comments posted 17yrs
posted by decypher.address
4 comments posted 17yrs posted by decypher.address

What is it? Set 260

I haven't had any luck in identifying the large metal ring in number 1473, maybe someone here will recognize it. http://...
47 comments posted 17yrs
posted by rhvp65
47 comments posted 17yrs posted by rhvp65