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[Arcane]

A few years back I had to make an end mill extension in order to get the clearance needed to elongate the pushrod guide holes on a pair of SB Chevy head....

[Arcane]

Just Google plastics and elastomers identification charts.

[Arcane]

Engine hoists are NOT cherry pickers.

[Arcane]

I wonder if they had these sort of arguments back when they were using cubits?

[Arcane]

A couple of websites showed these to be from $20 to $35 dollars. Pretty expensive but I found mine in the surplus section of Princess...

[Arcane]

I've had a couple of grease gun needles and there was a difference between the gauges of them. The first one I had was thinner than the one that replaced...

[Arcane]

Years ago when they built the Canadian Light Source here in town they commissioned a local machine shop to build the leveling blocks needed to adjust...

[Arcane]

I have a tool manufactured specifically for that purpose. It's a rectangular block of hardened steel with an angled V groove at one end that works as...

[Arcane]

I was wondering when someone was going to mention metric time....

[Arcane]

I agree with Jerry's line of thinking on this. It's a very common recommendation to drain air tanks daily to prevent them from rusting out but does...

[Arcane]

I'm surprised you don't have any LDPE or HDPE kicking around to do a test with....

[Arcane]

One area where I think metric would be a vast improvement over imperial is in measurement of volume.

[Arcane]

Every since I started to use Rust Check on the rim/tire interface, I have never had a slow leak. A couple of punctures, yes, but the incessant slow rim...

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Thanks Toolguy. That's definitely one possibility I would never have thought of.

The company is quite an old company. https://epe.lac-...

[Arcane]

briuz, that's very impressive.

[Arcane]

One time I made my own radius gauge to make an custom anvil so a friend could use it to help smooth out the corner of an oil pan that had been dinged...

[Arcane]

It's not the Chinese who are importing very low quality merchandise for resale...it's your North American companies who are doing that and it's t...

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I have a couple of sets, one has internal and external radii from 1/32' to 1/4" by 64ths but it's missing the 1/32 external radius gauge which I...

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I was reading where they discovered a source of a GRB and it was 12 billion light years away! I absolutely can not conceive just how powerful the explosion...