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[Bob Engelhardt]

My luck is such that if I had done this, immediately after finishing & filling the tank, there would be a very small dripping leak from the tank!!!...

[Bob Engelhardt]

Right! The melting point of copper being 2000°F, it's going to be radiating intensely before it melts....

[Bob Engelhardt]

Aaah ... makes perfect sense, thanks. My DIL has a Cricut and is eager to make panel labels for me. I just didn't "get" how lettering worke...

[Bob Engelhardt]

If you wanted to make a lettered label with Cricut, would each letter be cut separately?

[Bob Engelhardt]

The consumer ones have a pop-off valve that returns water to the stream. They commonly corrode & become dysfunctional. When it happened to mine,...

[Bob Engelhardt]

Today I did an experiment to see how far an anvil from a small telescoping bore gauge could fly. The anvil weighed 0.7g and the compressed spring exerted...

[Bob Engelhardt]

There is if you go "the other direction", as you suggested....

[Bob Engelhardt]

Not necessarily - i.e., if had to stay underwater or if crossing some countries wasn't feasible.

But I was replying to the 15 HUNDRED miles...

[Bob Engelhardt]

15 THOUSAND miles?...

[Bob Engelhardt]

Do you know, or can you measure, the cross section area of the strips? You'd then know the current density & you could do a sanity check on the strips'...

[Bob Engelhardt]

I installed our new washing machine. Getting it into place was a challenge here: if only that opening had been 1/2" wider:

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[Bob Engelhardt]

That is SO cool!! When a typical HSM'er thinks "laser cutter", THAT is what he imagines. Laser cutters have to be one of the greatest disconnects...

[Bob Engelhardt]

I dunno ... the 2 SHCS's look like they are for locking the tool holder into this gizmo. I.e., like 2 tiny pistons. That doesn't make sense for being...

[Bob Engelhardt]

I don't remember him, so I went & read a number of his posts. There was nothing there that suggested that he was headed for a banning....

[Bob Engelhardt]

Oh, no ... private is not fine. I want to see it, too....

[Bob Engelhardt]

$15 now. Is that one that you have, or just a random example of the tool?...

[Bob Engelhardt]

I'm with JT. In the specific Aliexpress example posted by MrWhoopee, it would take me an extraordinary amount of time to make that. It's fairly precise...

[Bob Engelhardt]

Here's the only thing that I found - a video of one in operation. A couple of stills of it, but no how-to:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_G

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[Bob Engelhardt]

Weirdly, the OP has been replying to some questions by PM!...

[Bob Engelhardt]

The audio of the Air Boss directing the planes has been released. Here's blancolirio's take on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFgbDIM8M5s Spoiler:...