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[Mark Rand]

I've got no problem with welding cast irons. I either use 98%Ni rods or Inconel 82 wire (brilliant stuff), plus preheat and gentle cooling. The little...

[Mark Rand]

The bottled stuff may well be shellac based since it's soluble in ethanol.

[Mark Rand]

The White staining colours are useful when laying out lines on black mild steel or castings.

[Mark Rand]

It's a fine feed handle. There's a 30T worm wheel on the feedscrew and matching worm on the fine feed handle, so 3 1/3 thou per turn. The worm hinges...

[Mark Rand]

Be fair, lantern toolposts work very well on shapers!

[Mark Rand]

I had the same problem with the Bloody Oxygen Company (sic). I now use Hobbyweld, who do a cylinder deposit and bring it back when you want a refill or...

[Mark Rand]

I'm ashamed/proud to say that I spend far more time rebuilding machine tools than I do using them to make things, other than parts for the machine tools...

[Mark Rand]

Keep paying the renewal fees and you keep control of it. If someone else thinks they have a right to that name and you already have it registered then...

[Mark Rand]

Sorry, but you wouldn't start a thread about a "Zionist deburring tool" or a "Nazi CNC controller", so why did you use a gratuitous...