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Help with poem
Something today triggered a line from a poem read as a kid MANY years ago. " The puffin had a muffin, the Owl a little fowl, and Griffin for his tiffen ate the Puffin and the Owl" OK ! What is the...
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welding
I am restoring a toyota land cruiser , and I have to weld some bodi panel patches. I have a small bench wire feed and am not informed on welding light metal .any sugestions would be a big help...
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keeping sheet metal roll rolls from rusting?
I am nearly done restoring an old sheet metal roll. I chucked up the rolls in the lathe and used 3M pads to remove the oxide so they are once again clean and shiny looking. But they're just steel, and...
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New ISP to read RCM?
Verizon is downgrading my dial-up service so I'm looking for another ISP in southern NH, preferably one that doesn't fill my computer with spyware or charge my credit card until the next Ice Age. I...
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New/old steel body panels
An article in the Nov. 25th recent issue of the NYT, "Rust-Free Reality: Creating an All-New Classic," talks about the growing business of supplying low-volume steel body panels to the restoration...
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Using my lathe today
Not exactly for metal. Christmas is coming along and its time to grind pounds and pounds of poppy seeds. (Iggy probably knows what this is about). Use to take about 3 hours by hand and using the lathe...
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My review of Harbor Freight's 93977 Ratcheting Crimper
I normally use my Craftsman combined plier/cutter/stripper/bolt-cutter/ crimper to crimp the yellow lugs from the home centers for 10-12 gauge wire. Although a trusty tool, it doesn't crimp very well....
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new steel mill
Our company just completed installing a huge allotment of equipment at the first greenfield mill start up built in along time there is a video of it at we build the ducting that removes the fumes from...
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RCM Challenge
I figure there is enough expertise in this group to successfully tackle this challenge... Now all it takes is money! The latest version of the X Prize is backed by Google: $20 million to the first...
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Why square head set screws?
I can see that square heads could be torqued tighter than socket/allen heads, but why not just use a hex head? The question is prompted by my having to remove a square head screw from the hub of a...
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Haas HL-1
I was wandering around the shops this afternoon. We have an early 90's Haas VL-1 with very low hours, original controls, very little tooling, no bar feeder. We rarely use it but it takes up a lot of...
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Ping Ned Simmons
Paid in full with some interest, via Paypal. Check your email for confirmation. Gunner
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Crafstman Oxy/Acet welding tip
I have a Craftsman torch that's about 12 years old and need a few new welding tips. Sears doesn't carry them and can't find anything online. Does anyone know who made these and if something from...
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Using newspapers to heat the shop
According to a GOOGLE search the BTU value of one pound of newsprint paper is around 8,000 BTU's compared to 20,000 BTU's for one pound of gasoline. I subscribe to three papers and at the end of a...
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OT: Green Washing
Awl- Apropos of the tumblers/washers threads, and previous posts on the win-win-win-win scenario with frontloader washers, I saw a fairly stunning Bosch ad for their front loaders: They have calc'd,...
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