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[Dan Dubeau]

I was expecting that too, until I was smelting a bunch of different scrap down, and started preheating the regulator housings with a torch and they started...

[Dan Dubeau]

Great job. I've always wanted to build a fixture to do them on the surface grinder, but I don't do much woodworking anymore so haven't had enough need...

[Dan Dubeau]

While I don't know what specific alloy it is, Standard Propane BBQ regulators are a nice recastable alloy, and cheap/free easy to find. Most likely a...

[Dan Dubeau]

I have a few different arms and attachments for it, but this setup is my go-to for small holes/buttons and most other mill indicating needs....

[Dan Dubeau]

That's for aluminum ...

[Dan Dubeau]

Curt just lists them simply as a "forged alloy spring steel". Which usually translates to the cheapest **** we can buy to do the job. You...

[Dan Dubeau]

UV flashlight from the top, with a 3d printed screw on adapter bezel for a mason jar?

https://www.amazon.ca/Lepro-Flashlight-wavelength-

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[Dan Dubeau]

Thanks for sharing and good timing. I've had a couple Makita 18v packs go dead recently, and have though about trying to rebuild them. A few videos...

[Dan Dubeau]

I took the simple aluminum angle route too, just welded them together in a row, on a slight angle. Someday I'd like to build a more elegant solution,...

[Dan Dubeau]

I just meant the Prowler was for the rich boomers, not the PT. Apologies for the poorly worded sentence. The pt was absolutely a middle class people...

[Dan Dubeau]

For me? It's just a mediocre attempt to cash in on nostalgia by churning out a parts bin special with no special engineering etc. In...

[Dan Dubeau]

Boomers were the intended target market (according to some magazine articles I read about them back then, take that for what it's worth....), but were...

[Dan Dubeau]

Chevy's failed attempt at prying nostalgia money out of boomers wallets. Much like the HHR, The Pt cruiser, and the Prowler for the rich boomers....

[Dan Dubeau]

I never knew (or don't recall) his name, just searched the husbands name from the womans obituary from the post above mine. I did find the obituary odd,...

[Dan Dubeau]

If that is indeed flylo's wife, then I'm afraid he's no longer with us either.

https://www.starksfamilyfh.com/obituaries/nelson-christia

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[Dan Dubeau]

I just suffered through this tin of mints (I don't like mint) just for the case.....



Back in Nov we took a bunch of my Sons...

[Dan Dubeau]

3d printed plunger indicator holder for an axa toolpost

[Dan Dubeau]

I just call them 1/4" hex tap drivers. Something I made about 10 or so years ago. Hole in the end is sized to fit the tap shank, and the slot from...

[Dan Dubeau]

These are my favourite tap drivers. .

Bottom to top is 4-40, 6-32, 8-32, 10-24, 1/4-20. All work great in a 1/4" hex driver (not impact)...

[Dan Dubeau]

Don't bother with the kite, skip straight to model airplanes . Just kidding.

I remember making one when I was a kid that was made from...