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[garyhlucas]

Small cable failure on the Arecibo Radio Telescope. A 3-1/2" diameter cable broke, and tore a 100 ft long piece out of the dish!

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Years ago I was working at a greenhouse and some dutch guys had a Metabo drill with a really slick attachment. It clamped to the collar behind the chuck...

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A Flemish eye is much stronger and is how they do crane slings. Split 3 of 7 strands out and weave them back together in the opposite direction. Harder...

[garyhlucas]

I believe in a supreme being because the universe is so wonderfully patterned to be just random chance. Whether that being gives a hoot for some biomass...

[garyhlucas]

I once made a pulsation damper for a pump from two 4" sch80 PVC pipe caps and a short piece of pipe. With 100 lbs of pressure against the pump the...

[garyhlucas]

What we are really lacking to beat this virus is leadership. Yes a very large percentage of the population needs to be led. Currently we are going in...

[garyhlucas]

I have the Titanium 170 dual voltage and on 220vac it welds very nicely. Used it for 0.035" flux core the other day and it had plenty of power welding...

[garyhlucas]

If the customer smiles when he hears the price you are too low. If he doesn't buy it you are too high. If he grumbles and buys it you re just right...

[garyhlucas]

Ground pin goes down so as the cord comes out the ground is the last conductor to open.

[garyhlucas]

Can you make a rocket engine with internal passages in one piece from an alloy like hastelloy? 3D printers can, in less time for a fraction of the cost....

[garyhlucas]

I have wanted a self driving car for a long time. I drive 20,000 to 35,000 miles a year, AND I admit to being a bad driver! Two problems, my mind and...

[garyhlucas]

My dad had one before we had oxyacetylene. We used it mostly for bending steel as it gets really hot.

[garyhlucas]

So I'll add something a bit newer. I wanted to try removing the rust from the INSIDE of my sailboat engine water cooled exhaust pipe. I could see it...

[garyhlucas]

I think your design is huge overkill when you mention the speed. I'd use rings cut from 4" copper pipe and put the bolts inside of the rings using...

[garyhlucas]

I think a spring that is compressed to a specific distance is the best tension gauge you can get for a small band saw. Springs all have load per unit...

[garyhlucas]

Just yesterday! M5-0.8 and 10-32 are both used for air fittings of the same type. Working on metric air parts and sure enough the ports were M5-0.8...

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By the way, I'd break it right off with a hammer, then vee it down to leaving just a thin root by the threads. The edges of a crack like that kind of...

[garyhlucas]

I'd say it is a grinder because it has a direct motor drive indicating the kind of spindle speed used for grinding. Might simply be missing the bellows...

[garyhlucas]

The 22 Hp max is feasible when running multiple motors none of which are larger than 7.5 hp. That is because multiple motors act like additional rotary...

[garyhlucas]

It's good to see Ford offering a sleeping arrangement in the new F150s. When you can't afford the house and the payments on your whiz bang new truck...