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If nothing else, fit a tube straight down to a covered but vented 5 gallon (or equivalent metric) pail so that the grinding junk falls there rather than on the floor. Even a little computer fan,...

Yep, one of my few smart moves in high school, I "passed" typing class with a D minus. I just couldn't get my speed up much past 17 wpm, and i even tried hard.

Into the Navy, before I made...

PayPal should have worked for me - even in my nibbling around the edges manner of using it. If it had, I would have been another satisfied customer, or at least content that things were working the...

Following up here.

I called the vendor and made arrangements to send a check. He was apologetic about the PayPal behavior but could offer no explanation as to why such things happen.

The...

So..
I go to order a product. The Merchant uses PayPal for handling his transactions. I don't have a PayPal account and don't want one, so I enter my credit card info and it gets rejected. No way...

How many is a "few"?

A fellow needed his piano tuned, and asked around for a reference for a good tuner. Several people provided glowing references for one Luigi Oppernockitti, an expert of some renown.
Surprised that...

The McDonalds Big Mac:
"Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions, on a sesame seed bun"

Excellent points Evan, I have no disagreement.

The best we PCa victims can do is keep questioning the "conventional wisdom" that is being pushed these days, and suggest that our friends get an...

As long as I'm on this horse, I'll ride a little further. There has been controversy about PSA testing. The test itself is inexpensive and a pretty good diagnostic tool. The problem arises when...

A subject fraught with contorversy, even among those of us affected.

PCa (abbreviation for Prostate Cancer) comes in various flavors. For the low-grade stuff, and sufficiently advanced age,...

Thanks, A.K. I perfer to avoid irrational optimism. I would rather be pleasantly surprised than bitterly dissapointed. While the statistical probability of a good outcome is still in my favor, the...

An excerpt from a technical report I submitted at work today:

I probably should have posted this in the Jokes & Stories thread, but got tired of going back pages and pages to find it.

Use it or loose it? I perfer to flatter myself and think I used it up - mostly.:) I would have thought I had a few miles left on it when I turned it in.:(

Uh, no. I wonder if that doc had his own walnut removed to satisfy his theory.

I kinda know how she feels, but in a different way.

I recently got my PSA tested again - uncertain results. Supposed to be less than .1 for somebody in my situation, but came back at exactly .1...

One photo of the guy preparing to test his wooden-rotored helicoptor, surrounded by onlookers gave me the shivers. Mass decapitations?

Yep, you suck.;) You have Shop Wench and we have SWMBO.

Gad, these men have been in the shop too long... Or need to get back to working.

What does a brilliant man come to when forced to rest? See post #1 above. Even with his candle dimmed, he can...

Another thought:
Think you have it hard? read The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind. Do a web search. Genuine Third World.

This thread looks like it will have a short shelf life. Nonetheless, all good points made.

From a hobby machinist point of view, I don't see the effects of government too much in the hobby,...

Another vote for Delrin gears. I visited a gear manufacturer who makes bazillions of injection molded Delrin gears fo all sizes. THey were doing a research project and showed me a test fixture...

For the more parsimonious among us:
What would be the effect of "rotating the tires," swapping a bearing with a groove worn in the outer race with one of the side bearings, provided that the...

I am in somewhat of a quandary here. Doing an article where I will be making details to bolt onto a machine made with metric fasteners and obvious round number metric dimensions. (bolt spacing &...

Where I live, and in many other areas in the US, everybody knows what a mile is. Our major roads are laid out on a grid a mile square. The City of Detroit and other areas even label some roads by...