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Best Image Posting Site (2025 Update)

Is there a go-to website for posting pics/diagrams of projects for the other here to view? I used to use Photobucket, b...

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posted by jamesjaddah1755

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Flood Coolant on the Lathe (2025 Update)

Who uses flood coolant on their manual lathe? Do you get sprayed when using it? Do you waste a lot of coolant. I was tu...

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posted by none

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Looking for washing machine for sheet metal

I need to wash the sheet metal blanks before the stamping process, because the part will be exposed parts in sunroofs....

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posted by Manuel

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Need perfect radius

Greetings. I am making a lamp for my living room. I will use a 45 pound plate for the base and some 1/2" rebar for the...

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posted by powersupplyguy

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Forge test

alloy steel up to heat . This is a piece of stock that is very similar (if not the actual alloy) to 4130/4140 steel , i...

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posted by snag_one

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Wannabe Forger

make it out of aluminum as the plans call out , I want to make mine out of some 4140-type steel I acquired several year...

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posted by snag_one

5 comments posted 7yrs posted by snag_one

Airco welder manual

I have a Erico 300 amp AC Series S Bumblebee model 3ADTS-24 stock number 13 55-0351 serial number 72-634920 welding ran...

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posted by maddhatter3326

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Drilling and Pinning Tall Molds

I make a lot of molds that are hinged. I remove 1/4 inch of material leaving a 1/4" tall, by 1/2" wide radius boss at o...

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posted by none

4 comments posted 7yrs posted by none

Mexican food

Got free Chorizo, a *Free Friday Download* goody, from Ralphs. After reading the ingredients on the wrapper, yesterday...

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posted by 789456123

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High performance dry lubricant

I watched a webinar on Molykote's new dry lubricant yesterday. It's quite a n advance. Although it's oriented towards p...

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posted by edhuntress2

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Shrink Fit Tool Holders

I've been wondering if shrink fit tool holders are single use. You heat up the tool holder drop the tool in and let it...

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posted by none

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losing colors after waxing a heat-patina on steel

Hi there- I'm very new to metalworking and am just finishing my first big project, a city skyline silhouetted offset fr...

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posted by arjunsharma33

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Pot Repair

Hello all, I have a friend that has a large baked porcelain pot used for the canning process. Dimensions about 18" Diam...

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posted by somewhere

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using hammers with strap wrenches

This is more a physics than a metalworking question. I'm wanting to unscrew the fan clutch and fan from the water pump...

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posted by bp

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Great shop tip for us old farts

Well, I find myself more unstable on my feet now so I need to be careful! I have big "C"- clamps tightened on the edges...

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posted by mars

19 comments posted 7yrs posted by mars