Problem using steady rest

[Bob Engelhardt]

Yes. The refrigerant is heated in the evaporator and that heat is removed from/by the condenser....

[Bob Engelhardt]

I don't think that I have much choice: running the dehumidifier alone makes it too warm and running the AC alone, in a normally cool area, would not do...

[Bob Engelhardt]

That's what I was trying to replicate, since the good end didn't have a 0.700 surface, as well as nor being able to slide the steady over the armatur...

[Bob Engelhardt]

Why does it use less power (energy)? It's the same technology: compressor-condenser-evaporator. Inquiring, not challenging....

[Bob Engelhardt]

It depends! All the electrical energy and all the latent heat from the condensed water (quite a bit) is turned into room heat. Unless we're quibbling...

[Bob Engelhardt]

Got it....

[Bob Engelhardt]

Dunno ... sorry ... above my pay grade ...

[Bob Engelhardt]

I just finished rehabbing a motor whose output shaft was very corroded. So corroded that I built it up with weld and turned it to size. To set it up...

[Bob Engelhardt]

I don't know how that works either. I'd guess that it would require that the evaporator temperature be kept above the dew point. If that's how it's...

[Bob Engelhardt]

I don't think so. If the only heat put into the room was the electrical part then there would be no heat pumps. Heat pumps output more heat than the...

[Bob Engelhardt]

I run a dehumidifier in my shop. It's a small shop and a small dehumidifier. The downside for me is that a dehumidifier is also a heater. In that all...

[Bob Engelhardt]

The $0.35 per lb that you mentioned before sounds cheap until you realize that 9', 1500lb piece was $525! Big machines need big budgets....

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Amazon has dozens of pin punch sets, with prices ranging over an order of magnitude. I picked 3, each with 8 pieces, 4" long. Tapered shank, knurled...

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Those are home medical oxygen tanks

[Bob Engelhardt]

$1.24 a pound, I think. See my comment on YT....

[Bob Engelhardt]

A hard connection isn't necessary.

Re the basket: besides the shielding, a basket isn't a good idea because the parts would be laying on...

[Bob Engelhardt]

"Currently unavailable" - you might be responsible for a run on them Is there another one you favor, or are they all the same?...

[Bob Engelhardt]

Here's a close up of the protected threads. Nothing suspicious, that I see.


And the name on the frame isn't eaten away (as much):...

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I found this beefy 6" C-clamp at the dump. "A bit" rusty, though, so I put it in the muriatic acid bucket. And forgot about it until...

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That's funny, but plausible. There is a market, I guess, for them. Here's a kickstarter who has $36,000 of pledges for them at $25 each:
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