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[boslab]

I can’t pull start anything anymore, perhaps start with a drill or impact wrench?
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[boslab]

Use a flow cup, fill time to empty gives the viscosity, I’d guess 30 seconds for milk, but can’t remember exactly, it was 30 for the paint in work...

[boslab]

Very nice work, I’d like to see a video of the cutting myself, and the machine. my dad bought an Ariel I remember something he swapped for a thing...

[boslab]

I cut a shoulder in a bank to build a garage, in doing I cut through lots of mole burrows, I was standing admiring my handywork when at about 2” of...

[boslab]

My first experience with a carbon arc torch was quite funny, I merely struck the arc with EW9 goggles on, couple of hours later felt my nose stinging,...

[boslab]

Don’t understand, the calibrated engraved dial should spin with moderate pressure, the unusual star wheel solid fixed connection to leadscrew, that’s...

[boslab]

Not what you asked but how about an autopippete, slurp and squirt into the engraved letter ( done it with a syringe a bit, blunt needle)
you can...

[boslab]

You have a hell of a nice shop, I remember putting the optical rotary table on a sip, it was big, very big and cost more than my house at the time...

[boslab]

I find that fascinating, wonder where the hot water feed to divers suits is?, generally when I feel a warm sensation below the waist it’s a bad sign,...

[boslab]

Perhaps someone’s idea of a drill that can drill holes using polar coordinates as opposed to Cartesian, though I fail to see it’s use without 360...

[boslab]

Think you did a wonderful job, lovely machine, might be small but has a surprising capacity, saying that I’ve seen some fairly difficult jobs done on...

[boslab]

Set a tube, centre the tube, drop ball in tube, ball at TDC
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[boslab]

Also known as SG iron, bendy, machines ok, is ductile about 60000 psi ( though seen higher and lower) ideal for what you propose
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[boslab]

Silicon bronze is fairly ubiquitous for brazing,
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[boslab]

Try using motorcycle sprockets, cheap and available in a range of sizes
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[boslab]

I saw leonardo da Vinci’s “ cartoons” in an art gallery in London, he drew a roller chain ( better than I could) hundreds of years ago, it looked...

[boslab]

You could use a serpentine belt tensioner off a cam belt, like an Audi A4/A6, basically a sprung jockey wheel on the back of the belt, zero swing excavators...

[boslab]

We had a workshop bridge that had a shaft across the bridge to couple the drive aka trolley wheels, it had a drop chain to operate, as the wheels were...

[boslab]

Perhaps under pressure the drill bowed giving a tapered hole,
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[boslab]

I had a big box of saw wax under a bench in a lock up near an old canal, it certainly attracted the rats, I opened the door and under the bench was moving,...