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07:59 PM
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How to not get sued for machine work?
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Not so good for lawyers!;)
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I find that explanation somewhat ingenious.:rolleyes:
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Yesterday,
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Reamer advice please!
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Thanks everyone. dfw5914 I am thinking of making a tool somewhat like that by brazing a bit of HSS on the end of another, smaller, pipe which...
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Yesterday,
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I could buy (medical) drugs from anywhere they are available in the world, why cant you?
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Yesterday,
04:39 AM
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I don't think there is any doubt about how the drug and medical countries would respond as several countries have been operating national health...
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06-16-2013,
07:21 PM
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Reamer advice please!
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Thanks guys, Bob, I don't really want to experiment with a reamer! I have had good results boring and honing shorter lengths of this stuff and it...
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06-16-2013,
06:52 PM
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220V splice
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Only at the ends of long rural lines, most voltages were 230V to 240V. Electricity has not changed in 50 years and much of the work done then is...
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06-16-2013,
06:43 PM
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When I did my electrical wiring registration examinations in 1965(?) we had to make soldered joints.
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06-16-2013,
06:40 PM
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Reamer advice please!
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I have some 1" water pipe that I would like to machine the inside to take a piston. I need about 250mm (10") of stroke on one end of a pipe twice...
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06-16-2013,
04:20 PM
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I assume the 12 quid is a 'social security' payment collected along with taxes? That would be an indication of the true cost of medical...
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06-16-2013,
03:30 PM
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Sorry to hear Gert is a bit crook and I am pleased to hear she is being taken care of.
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06-15-2013,
04:42 PM
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OT: Female Russian Snipers of WWII
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Would that have been the war that ended in 1809?
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06-15-2013,
03:26 PM
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I am well aware where it comes from and I am also aware of where it does not go which is all the bloat and profit taking of a commercialized health...
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06-15-2013,
05:20 AM
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I am sorry to hear you have to pay so much for medical treatment. I had three years of treatment for cancer and it cost me just the $30 for the...
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06-14-2013,
03:36 PM
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Maybe he is a keen herb gardener....http://www.rollitup.org/general-marijuana-growing/297672-burning-propane-co2-generation.html
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06-14-2013,
03:28 PM
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Propane conversion
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Maybe this would be interesting? http://home.howstuffworks.com/mosquito-magnet2.htm
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06-14-2013,
03:24 PM
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Propane conversion
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This calls for an experiment... Put the oxidant etc in a short length of pipe with a cap on one end and a wooden(?) plug jammed in the other,...
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06-14-2013,
03:03 AM
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Sharpening shear cutters and combs?
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If he is shearing sheep in Australia he may well be a Kiwi, especially as that was a Kiwi style wide comb he was grinding!
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06-14-2013,
02:28 AM
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Machining to tolerance. What is yer Tolerance?
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If it is too big at the start I just take metal off until it is too small.
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06-14-2013,
01:37 AM
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Sharpening shear cutters and combs?
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Do you think so, he didn't really say much! ;) ;)
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06-14-2013,
12:20 AM
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Sharpening shear cutters and combs?
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I thought he was going to grind that comb clean away!;)
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06-13-2013,
04:22 PM
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What materials can withstand temperatures of 100 degrees F?
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100F, hot enough to melt butter, just.
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06-11-2013,
11:29 PM
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OT End of an era, maybe.
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"Our" C47/DC3 maybe due to retirement... http://www.southerndc3.co.nz/history .. rumour has it that she will be out of the air at the end...
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06-11-2013,
03:24 PM
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Poor man's DRO revisited!
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I am not really the clever, I made a mistake and put the scale end-for-end through the sensor head which lead to very strange operation of the...
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06-10-2013,
03:03 PM
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How to not get sued for machine work?
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If you do honest work you wont be sued, provided you live in New Zealand. (See...
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06-10-2013,
06:02 AM
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The idea sounds interesting but I would have to think about where the torque reaction was to be taken. If the person holding the barrow handles is...
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06-10-2013,
01:54 AM
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Sharpening shear cutters and combs?
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Times have changed! When we were kids we used to cycle around the local farms asking if we could salvage the wool from sheep that had died! Filthy...
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06-09-2013,
03:47 PM
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What's in the box ??
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Custom made lathe? That could be interesting....
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06-09-2013,
03:36 PM
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Sharpening shear cutters and combs?
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500 sheep a day and that water was piping hot! Coopers "Little Wonder" portable shearing plant, 1920? It is mounted a little low being on...
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06-09-2013,
03:10 PM
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Sharpening shear cutters and combs?
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Yes, more cutters than combs and as the cutters are sharpened the teeth get shorter so sort the cutters and use the thinnest one when a new comb goes...
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