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[garyhlucas]

I helped the wife of a friend who passed away clean out his wood shop the past 2 weekends. We filled a 20 yard dumpster with junk and I took his collection...

[garyhlucas]

I have 4 patents and the first cost me $12K and was so poorly done by a rip-off attorney that the patent office allowed me to refile and get an extension....

[garyhlucas]

At my last job I eliminated pipe threads in every way possible. Flanged connections of all kinds, plastic and metal welds, O-ring sealed, hose clamped...

[garyhlucas]

I like Hitachi and Automation Direct. Automation Direct is a fabulous company to deal with for 25 years now. They used to sell Hitachi which is how I...

[garyhlucas]

Actually for this amount of power and speed a Baldor Boehm DC worm gear motor is about perfect. I have used hundreds of them running continuously for...

[garyhlucas]

I have programmed Clicks at my job. I don’t like the Clicks, they are too simplistic and are actually harder to program because of a very restricted...

[garyhlucas]

The Tesla battery burning produces far less energy than a car tank full of gasoline. However water is simply the wrong thing to use on a lithium fire...

[garyhlucas]

So place it on an angled surface and read it. Then turn it 180 degrees and compare to the first reading. Is it the same angle to the decimals displayed?...

[garyhlucas]

Drill a hole pattern on 3 Archimedies spirals and you probably could get the small clamping range to work fine. My mill has a surface plate for the table...

[garyhlucas]

I read fast not speed reading and I remember what I read. In third grade the teacher told my parents I was in danger of failing reading. She showed them...

[garyhlucas]

What would gasoline turn into sitting for 15 years? It will still be a hydrocarbon, it can’t turn into water.

[garyhlucas]

What is your laser and how many watts? I believe your sequence of cuts backwards. Even milling I’d do all the bolt holes first, then the inside and...