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Lacquer thinner is zylene, toluene, and acetone- I think I got that right- as such it works on a great variety of substances. It's also relatively mind...
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I don't remember which car- it had to be either the 58 Ford or the 61 Ford. The clock would drain the battery after a month or two if you didn't drive...
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Something which I've never heard a mechanic talk about, but which I've had direct experience with in my own vehicles and others is the wire that goes...
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Throwaway work surfaces from cardboard- one of my best uses for all that stuff. Corrugated cardboard is great for that. Hard to damage something by placing...
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That's interesting- I wonder if I can fit that into my cassette player to demag the heads-
One day I had a ferrite magnet from a speaker...
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Was that something that needed a catalyzer? I had a similar experience with a finish I used once. It had two expiry dates- and even without the catalyst...
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By the way, I have a friend who received a complementary letter from the Queen- or her office- regarding a song he wrote about Sir Norman Wisdom. I don't...
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Well, I agree with the Beatles- she's a pretty nice girl. Just think- if I could have made her mine way back then, I'd be soaking in hard-won British...
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I mentioned to a friend the other day that I had talked about the Queen. Up went her hand in the customary cupped shape and the slow swing back and forth....
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Don't make the mistake I did when trepanning. I had the cutter set for the diameter of the hole I was making, 6 inches I think it was. I had the piece...
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Somewhere I have a piece of square stock which I cross drilled and then drilled and tapped one end for a set screw. I used a single roller from a defunct...
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The Queen- OT
This is not political, though I realize that among us all there are going to be different points of view on her. I just recently put her as my background...
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In my workshop there's an outside corner. A workbench sits against the long wall there, and extends about 20 odd inches past the corner. In that extension...
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Well, now I understand why I have blue eyes- all those donuts. Actually, I love that song- thanks for posting it Paul....
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If you don't consider the cost of a hole saw of that size, then I think that's the way to do it. Drilling the swarf release holes makes a lot of difference....
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Pallets- we got a shipment of materials one day on a pallet made of mahogany. You can bet I kept that one.
I ordered some stuff one day from...
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I remember one of the world fair exhibits- it was a stampede of chuckwagons going around the room, 360 degrees of view screens basically. They had smell-o-vision-...
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What happens if you burn an old tool handle? Some of that stuff was really stinky already-...
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