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    Today, 11:18 AM
    So, I've got some holes - 1/4" up to 3/8" - in sheet steel - gauge 18 to 22 say, and I want to fill them. I may want to redrill overlapping the...
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    Today, 10:55 AM
    rohart replied to a thread My assistant weldor! in General
    I showed this to my younger (16) daughter. She turned up her nose and said, "You wish ! Maybe my sister." You're a lucky man she's showing...
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    Today, 10:52 AM
    rohart replied to a thread My Apology to the forum! in General
    I am catching myself beavering away in my workshop, not saying anything about it, and when I do get round to following the forum, writing some bitchy...
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    05-19-2013, 03:21 PM
    rohart replied to a thread HSM-Built Steel Guitar in General
    I'm surprised he painted a MS guitar - I didn't notice that in the video. I'd have thought that the whole point of using steel for a guitar is so you...
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    05-19-2013, 03:12 PM
    rohart replied to a thread happy birthday Al. in General
    Happy Birthday. Just think - if only you'd been English, you could have sat back and enjoyed the cricket today !
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    05-18-2013, 04:42 PM
    rohart replied to a thread HSM-Built Steel Guitar in General
    I don't mean to denigrate a discussion of the how tuning versus temperature implications of stringed musical intruments vary with the metals used for...
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    05-18-2013, 01:05 PM
    I agree - this is a very mean trick to play on the rest of us.
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    05-17-2013, 06:06 PM
    The tip shouldn't be spherical for most applications. A teardrop shape is better, as it tries to keep the reading linear as the deflected angle...
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    05-17-2013, 05:59 PM
    Besides, strictly speaking you're not really UK mainland, are you ? And goodness knows what you are up there, if Farage is anything to go by ! (It...
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    05-17-2013, 05:51 PM
    rohart replied to a thread HSM-Built Steel Guitar in General
    Since when has common sense been a major factor in members of this forum deciding what they should spend their time making ? That said, a steel...
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    05-16-2013, 02:32 PM
    The guy's had a long hard struggle, and to cap it all he finds he'd made a silly mistake. He fixes his error, slams some fix-it welds together, and...
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    05-15-2013, 04:29 PM
    Yes to the above - MT3 only after using an adaptor. My Bantam's the smallest of the range, and it takes an MT4 in the head and MT3 in the tail. ...
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    05-15-2013, 03:57 PM
    rohart replied to a thread Quick change toolposts in General
    What I like about the Dickson is you almost throw a holder at it, turn a wrench, and off you go. What I don't like is the cost of the holders. I've...
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    05-15-2013, 03:44 PM
    rohart replied to a thread Light on welding helmet? in General
    I'm interested to hear that 500W does the trick. I tried 300W in a reflector, 18" from the workpiece, not to see the puddle better, but to see the...
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    05-13-2013, 03:35 PM
    I think the sheep will be a bit uncomfortable with all those sticky-up bits all over the table. Still, plenty of scope for tying it down, I suppose.
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    05-13-2013, 03:21 PM
    I thought the best of the bunch was the microlight that ended up crashing. A couple of nice little engines, and the right basic shape. Unfortunately,...
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    05-09-2013, 03:30 PM
    One point that hasn't been mentioned is that I think you should use a rotor that is the same size as the one the calipers and the associated pads...
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    05-09-2013, 03:10 PM
    rohart replied to a thread Firefox update a bust? in General
    Alright, caveBob - Opera, eh ? I'll give it a go. FF sure was the business for a few years. Guess they just got a bunch of go-getting senior...
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    05-08-2013, 11:37 PM
    rohart replied to a thread Thermal Imaging in General
    Vince - thanks for a very interesting shakedown of your subject. Apart from anything else, your comments are going to result in my revising the...
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    05-08-2013, 11:13 PM
    rohart replied to a thread Firefox update a bust? in General
    I'm still on FF 3.24, under XP SP4. As soon as I saw FF going to versions 4, 5, 6 etc I knew they'd gone loopy. Reinventing a time honoured method...
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    05-05-2013, 03:45 PM
    rohart replied to a thread Metric Fixation in General
    I didn't take your post as a full frontal attack - but it inspired some thoughts, and there you go. One the subject of the Keats fixture, I...
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    05-05-2013, 02:31 PM
    rohart replied to a thread Metric Fixation in General
    Forest - if we'd developed with six finders on each hand, the world would have been a better place, I agree. Twelve is a much better choice of number...
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    05-04-2013, 03:58 PM
    rohart replied to a thread Metal Thickness vs Gauge in General
    As well as all this gauge stuff, I get annoyed when something is quoted as 25mm, when they really mean 25 sq mm, or 25 mm2. They other day I was...
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    05-04-2013, 03:51 PM
    rohart replied to a thread [ot] Fire... in General
    Come on - there are plenty of Off Topic discussions - there's no need to jump down this guys throat just because he wants to get something off his...
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    05-01-2013, 10:10 AM
    You might be best buying a sine-wave generator and possibly a small amp. Any analyser isn't going to know which part of the sound needs to be...
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    04-30-2013, 03:37 PM
    In XP in the taskbar menu there's an option called Cascade Windows. This tells explorer, which is in charge of the screen, to resize all of the...
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    04-30-2013, 03:21 PM
    When people get hot under the collar about metric, and say they use imperial wrenches unless forced not to, I wonder if they use AF or Whitworth...
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    04-30-2013, 02:38 PM
    With version 3.10 thru 3.24 Firefox could fail to close. It did give you a warning, then close itself. You have stopped the process in Task...
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    04-30-2013, 12:44 PM
    There's a satirical magazine in Britain called Private Eye that runs a feature where you send in two photos of personalities - sometimes one is a...
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    04-30-2013, 10:35 AM
    I don't know about plastic fittings, but in the UK we get by with a straight 1/2" to 15mm joint, and 1/2" glands to go in 15mm compression joints. ...
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