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[Tobias-B]

May I pick through your trashbin?

t
lives for the mess.

[Tobias-B]

That's brilliant-
thanks for sharing it!

t...

[Tobias-B]

Hi Bob,
as a fellow HSMer with delusions of adequacy, I was going to suggest
-gasp-
trying to MAKE a holder.

t
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[Tobias-B]

'moose muffins;' heh.

I don't buy myself 'nice' things because I don't take 'collectible' care of things.

I use them. I take...

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JR, I been doin' it for decades.
Even welded caliper brackets to trailing arms.

One look at the forces involved in the hydraulics,...

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yeah, I have been meaning to fix the brake on the mill for ages.

And I hadn't given the lathe much thought- but fitting a disc
and...

[Tobias-B]

Kid will make 100 grand in the first year of his first job.

I think that's a pretty fair investment.

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[Tobias-B]

I have a couple of die grinders.

They're not... all that.

hee

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[Tobias-B]

This thread made me order one of those little die grinder doohickeys.

Because it looks fun.

Edit- it showed up, and it's about...

[Tobias-B]

I have made quite a few race car fittings like that
(never road car fittings, because liability)
by welding or silver brazing parts together....

[Tobias-B]

Silage is what goes into the cow.

Poop is what comes out the other end,

and then goes back onto fields to make more silage....

[Tobias-B]

That's one of those things that's easy-

once you see how someone else figured it out!

That's fantastic!

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[Tobias-B]

Seconded for the VFD braking-
if I had a foot brake, I'd use it, but as the brake on the Bridgeport's worn out,
and the lathe never had one,...

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at which point, we should all just back away slowly, and leave Doozer alone with his alloys.

hee.

t
keeps some brazing...

[Tobias-B]

Tim has it exactly right. The output shaft has no contact with oil, and relies on the
mesh between the output gears and counter shaft gears to...

[Tobias-B]

I have a long bolt silver- brazed to a tap to clean out the threads for the water pump on on Ferd smallblocks...

t...

[Tobias-B]

...and if you need something a bit bigger, the Ford Corporate 10.25/10.5's are really common in the junkyards these days...

hee
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[Tobias-B]

I just chuck up a centering pin and use the tip of that.

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[Tobias-B]

That Dremel cannot be an antique, as I still have mine from when I was- I mean, I am STILL a kid, dammit!

with the bearing, I can't see normal...

[Tobias-B]

Well, heck- I haven't looked in mine since about 2008 when I first dragged it home.

Sure enough, that's where all the gnomes come from!...