Cleaning off dried up WD40

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Looking good Brian. I am looking forward to your comments on trying the TIG welding. I have done a lot of stick welding but never tried TIG. I have seen...

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OK, I have cleaned the neoprene cover and finished my lunch so here are the results.
The WD40 worked pretty well with a bit of elbow grease....

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Stand by fellows, I will try some of these suggestions today and let you know. Keep in mind a lot of you in North America have half a day in before we...

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There has been a lot of discussion about WD40 on here from time to time but I haven't seen and can't find anything about cleaning off dried up WD40....

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I have some square sockets which I mainly used for square headed pipe plugs. They came from Snap-On. They also make sockets for the plugs that have a...

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Paul - No, it is nothing like that. If you can picture a one inch thick disc mounted on the end of a shaft so it can rotate freely but not move back and...

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I guess you could call it a mandrel. I hesitated to do that because the disc actually rotates on it rather than being fixed to it. By the way in his...

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It is in William Harris's book The Steam Donkey Engine. The book is copyrighted so I cannot scan the drawing and put it out here. If con get a look at...

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Brian - There is drawing in the book I have for a steam donkey to make an internal steady rest that is held in the tail stock of the lathe. Basically...

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Looking at the link in post #3 all the metric collets also use a metric thread on the drawbar so this will be something to consider also.

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Pretty husky looking crankshaft. Good job Brian.

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This brings back another old memory. When was in vocational school taking up heavy duty mechanic I needed a project to work on. I had an old winch but...

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What I have been doing to shorten mainly the threaded end of small machine screws and most of these have had socket heads is -
I get a piece of...

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Some while back I read somewhere, maybe here that a carbide burr made a pretty good deburring tool. I bought a ball end burr and made a handle out of...

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aostling - your story about New Zealand brings back a memory. I had sailed there from Canada and a bunch of Canadians were in Whangarie. There was a country...

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As long as you are not using the spray cans of WD40 which uses propane as a propellant your probably OK. I made myself a cyclone bucket from a 5 gallon...

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On the piece of brass that can't be found. I have done that more times than I care to admit. As we say around here, put it away in a safe place never...

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After reading the above post I went to my account and found that there is a DST option. I selected to automatically track GST changes and presto the time...

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Thanks for the input. You have convinced me not to spend my money on a tap extractor as I will probably be disappointed. I have had a lot of experience...

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Does anyone have experience with Walton tap extractors ? I was thinking of trying one. First time in quite a while I broke a 6-32 tap off yesterday. ...