Now a week or so later. I went by for the after-scrounge. Someone had moved the remaining six rounds so they were partly concealed, but I got all six...
So I picked up this old 10" 1hp bench grinder. Its nameplate says it was made by Dayton. Fine, Dayton used to make quality bench grinders back in the...
I picked up a small cast iron surface plate today. It's old. Patinaed but not pitted, it will clean up perfectly. I wished I'd had one like this in a...
I can tell you for sure that I would not make that with two gears. Two gears are fine for sheet metal but if you want to roll e.g. 1/4x1" strap with...
Some time ago, scrounging aluminum, I picked up an old clam tube. They use these digging for razor clams on the Washington coast. It's entirely made...
Have you ever taken apart a squirrel cage electric motor? I have, and for a long time I wondered how the fan blades work. They have no helical angle...
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