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bottom drops out of scrap market
Morning All Just come back from the scrappy - with most of the scrap that I took :o( I have been expecting the prices paid for scrap to drop for some time but had a real shock this morning. I had a...
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"British Standard Shelving"
Anyone know of a good source of second hand "Britsh Standard Shelving" - the sort with pressed angle uprights with holes every 2", and folded steel shelves. All the stuff I'm being offered, and the...
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DIN 41612 Connectors
I know this is the wrong group but........ I have a load of DIN 41612 Connectors to get rid of. 32 64 and 96 way board and backplane. If anyone has a need they can have them for carriage cost. I am in...
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Today
Today, amongst other things, I fitted paired thrust bearings to the top and cross slides of my lathe. Cross-slide now has
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Sensible ideas for excess steel plate
I have about 100 lengths of 80mm X 6mm BMS flat, all about a metre long, which is now redundant due the customer going bust. Rather than scrap it, any sensible ideas of what could be made from it are...
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Old poster re-appears....
G'day Gentlefolk, I bring you greetings from about 5 years ago, which may well be the last time I posted on this group. I made the mistake of moving house in 2002 - getting the workshop back together...
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Mig brazing
or, I suppose, more correctly, bronze welding. I see there are supplies of silicon bronze in mig reels. Anyone tried it? with what results? specifically, does it have special gas or machine...
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OT. Hypothetical explosive related legal question
Ignore this if you don't feel happy with the subject, but I know that we have one or two people that have relevant knowledge or views. This is one that has been causing me some considerable disquiet...
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Mig Welding Cast Iron
Anyone on here ever tried mig welding cast iron using stainless wire and pure argon gas? Had a search on Google and some say it can be done with good results but others say you are just waisting your...
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anyone here use 16c collets?
All Looking for a source of reasonable priced 16C collets if they exist. Bought a couple from Hardinge the other week, nothing special 20 & 35mm round and kind of shocked at the price! (£160 for the...
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Evolution Fury 2 chop saw
JS mentioned to me that these have been on special offer at Aldi for 90 squid - last weekend's special offer, but my local Aldi still had a stack of them (one less now...) These are the saws that we...
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Slightly OT - in need of small metering pump
As usual google groups not working again .. your posts not there yet you are limiting yourself serverly in search with it being 12 volt . if you can get an inverter in there search ebay with terms...
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Slightly OT - in need of small metering pump
I'm trying to locate a source for a fluid metering pump; needs to be 12V DC (or lower) powered, suitable for about 0.25ml/min maximum. Most likely type would be solenoid operated with a single stroke...
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Chronos Little Hogger sets questions
Hi, I've recently ordered a set of 3 of the Chronos Little Hogger insert type end mills shown at and wondered if anyone here has used them and what they think ? I see they have 3 different types of...
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on the subject of stainless...
been doing a bit of stainless work recently - am I right in thinking that cutting speeds need to be a lot slower than ordinary steel? drilling at what I thought was "quite slow" resulted in...
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