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Yesterday, 05:17 PM

bborr01 replied to a thread OK, I'm "guilty" in General

Stan, I can't help you with an easy way but what I do is slosh some water with detergent in it on the floor and scrub it around with a stiff...

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Yesterday, 10:27 AM

bborr01 replied to a thread Ok CANADA, EXPLAIN this in General

The plant that I retired from had a huge Centac 4 stage compressor that would supply all the air needed to run a 40 acre factory. While it was being...

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05-22-2013, 12:31 PM

bborr01 replied to a thread My Apology to the forum! in General

Flylo, I missed the last posting about your health but we are all in this together. Sooner or later the guy who pm'ed you will have a health issue...

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05-22-2013, 12:09 PM

bborr01 replied to a thread the premiere fifth wheel camper in General

The video's in artful bodgers post show a guy hooking up a vw to a trailer and doing 360's. I wonder how long the wiring would last going from the...

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05-21-2013, 08:41 AM

bborr01 replied to a thread Semi OT - A Cool Demonstration; Why Magnesium Fires are so Dangerous in General

Boomer, Don't ever burn magnesium on a cement floor either. When I was an apprentice many years ago I had some magnesium to machine. One of the...

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05-19-2013, 08:51 PM

bborr01 replied to a thread OK. You won the $600M Powerball. Now what? in General

My wife and I were talking about how it would affect someone to win several hundred million $$. She told me that if she were to win something like...

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05-19-2013, 12:55 PM

bborr01 replied to a thread New Mill Is Home in General

Cebump, You got yourself a pretty nice machine. I have spent a lot of hours running one just like that one and the only downside that I recall was...

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05-19-2013, 12:50 PM

bborr01 replied to a thread happy birthday Al. in General

Happy Birthday Alistair. Is 62 considered around retirement age over where you live? Brian

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05-19-2013, 12:20 PM

bborr01 replied to a thread OK. You won the $600M Powerball. Now what? in General

There was no chance of me winning because I didn't buy any tickets. My thoughts are that most anyone , including myself, who would win that kind of...

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05-18-2013, 09:30 PM

bborr01 replied to a thread G power in General

Doubtful. Gravity is fine until you need to carry the weight back up to the top. Brian

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05-18-2013, 08:02 PM

bborr01 replied to a thread Raw material find for metro Detroiters in General

Ricky, Thanks for sharing that. Too bad for me that I didn't check in earlier because I just spent a couple of days in Detroit. Next time I will...

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05-16-2013, 06:31 AM

bborr01 replied to a thread The new Bligeport - first installment. in General

Bligeport sounds kind of familiar to me. Wasn't there a company in Connecticut that used to use a similar name on some milling machines? Maybe...

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05-10-2013, 09:00 AM

bborr01 replied to a thread 5 cylinder radial running in General

What a work of art. Thanks for sharing it. A picture is worth a thousand words. Any chance of a video of it running? Brian

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05-07-2013, 06:55 PM

bborr01 replied to a thread Found it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! in General

What is a #? Is that some kind of obsolete unit of measurement like an inch? Brian

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05-03-2013, 12:35 AM

bborr01 replied to a thread Endmill Geometry Question in General

Mike, That picture in your OP is the oddest looking end mill that I have seen in a while. Is it a left hand end mill? The end mill in post #20...

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05-02-2013, 11:57 PM

bborr01 replied to a thread Pages missing from Shop Made Tools thread? in General

There is one member in particular who had maybe dozens of posts that were "nice work" type of posts. I think he just liked having his handle show up...

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05-01-2013, 05:17 PM

bborr01 replied to a thread Evans posts in General

I would like to be the first to thank Evan for his generousity in sharing his vast knowledge of so many different subjects. I have learned a lot from...

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05-01-2013, 05:09 PM

bborr01 replied to a thread Shop Made Tools in General

Stern, That is one ugly block of steel there. A diamond in the rough you might say. One of my favorite things is taking an ugly block of material...

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05-01-2013, 05:02 PM

bborr01 replied to a thread Hacksaw for sale in General

Has the ban on "for sale" posts been lifted while I wasn't looking? Brian

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05-01-2013, 04:58 PM

bborr01 replied to a thread Tell me about a South Bend 13" lathe in General

Fine by me Eric. He was asking $1,800 with some tooling. The ad is gone so I assume he sold it. Brian

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04-30-2013, 11:55 PM

bborr01 replied to a thread Tell me about a South Bend 13" lathe in General

Tony, Is it in Michigan? A friend of mine has/had one for sale in Mi. edit: it is probably in flylo's hanger by now. Brian

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04-30-2013, 11:32 PM

bborr01 replied to a thread OT:Oh crap,that doesn't look good! in General

A friend took me flying in a Cessna 150 about 25 years ago shortly after he hot his private pilots license. He was practicing touch and go's and told...

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04-30-2013, 02:51 PM

bborr01 replied to a thread defogging a double-paned window in General

I sure wish this site had a "like" function sometimes. My cottage has a fogged up pane in the stationary side of a 6' sliding glass door.. Called...

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04-29-2013, 07:11 PM

bborr01 replied to a thread Shop Made Tools in General

Stern, I think it would be a good idea to look at some of the factory made qctp's and copy their design for the mounting system. You have an awful...

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04-27-2013, 09:44 PM

bborr01 replied to a thread Here is a Deal in General

That is flylo territory.

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04-25-2013, 06:44 PM

bborr01 replied to a thread Machine tapping in lathe in General

Brian, Why don't you just put the tap in the chuck that is in the tailstock and use the lathes power to tap? Just wondering. I have tapped a lot...

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04-22-2013, 05:11 PM

bborr01 replied to a thread How bad an idea is this VMC? in General

I would go for it. I just bought a similar size machine and paid quite a bit more for it. A good cnc repair person or yourself with some coaching can...

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04-22-2013, 08:34 AM

bborr01 replied to a thread Interesting mechanism at N.A.M.E.S. in General

Sounds like a governor to me. Brian

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04-21-2013, 11:40 AM

bborr01 replied to a thread OT: Help, Another computer problem. SpeedUpMyPC by uniblue in General

Here is where my puter is at this stage. I ran MS safety scan and it said my machine had 5 bad files. When it finished it just said that the files...

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