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OT: in-line skate brake

This is preliminary, but wondering why I haven't already tried implementing this braking method. The brake is like a Ra...
6 comments posted 18yrs
posted by jdoe
6 comments posted 18yrs posted by jdoe

Alva F Allen BT2 2 Ton Punch Press

Hoping for a long shot here. I am rebuilding a little Allen BT2 punch press and found that one of the bearing caps is b...
1 comments posted 18yrs
posted by mlogical
1 comments posted 18yrs posted by mlogical

Best stencil material

The roadside signs announcing my business need replacing... With a huge laborious effort, I now have the sign as an Aut...
7 comments posted 18yrs
posted by karltownsend.NOT
7 comments posted 18yrs posted by karltownsend.NOT

Yes another sharpening ends of end mill question

I bought one of those enco fixtures, http://www.use-enco.com/CGI/INSRIT?PMAKA=287-6840&PMPXNO=949927&PARTPG=INLMK3 Toni...
3 comments posted 18yrs
posted by clutch
3 comments posted 18yrs posted by clutch

round vs square tubing

What are the advantages and disadvantages of using square and round tubing? Which one has more strength and rigidity? Wh...
10 comments posted 18yrs
posted by moreairguns
10 comments posted 18yrs posted by moreairguns

Hand soap--roll yer own

Quite by accident I discovered a really good cleaner for greasy hands--- one squirt Lava (w/pumice) plus one squirt Che...
13 comments posted 18yrs
posted by wassbiplane
13 comments posted 18yrs posted by wassbiplane

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...
10 comments posted 18yrs
posted by lhartswick
10 comments posted 18yrs posted by lhartswick

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 a...
8 comments posted 18yrs
posted by trampasjack
8 comments posted 18yrs posted by trampasjack

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...
5 comments posted 18yrs
posted by grant
5 comments posted 18yrs posted by grant

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 fi...
27 comments posted 18yrs
posted by KB1DAL
27 comments posted 18yrs posted by KB1DAL

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...
30 comments posted 18yrs
posted by huntres23
30 comments posted 18yrs posted by huntres23

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...
40 comments posted 18yrs
posted by ivan
40 comments posted 18yrs posted by ivan