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Damn! How heavy was THAT lathe?! ...

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Yup. Got suckered into buying one of those recently. Seemed such a great idea.....until just like you prophesised it grabs hold of the lathe or the...

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Ah, I see. As they were moving in the shot, they looked more like grind stones - at least on a small screen. Familiar concept but haven't seen any like...

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...and they said that the youth of today are good for nothing!
Like the term tilt-a-whirl. Ironically the type I've just replaced with a toolmakers...

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Nice. Had to Google what the hell it was (I'm in the UK) but the method was interesting with the vertical grinding. Are those off the shelf grinding...

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Got a little time in the shop. Had one of those days where as soon as you put something down, it disappears. Enjoyed some time exclaiming "Ohh...

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Willy Hey, it's shiny and got a point both on it and to it.... that's gotta be machining. Sounds like it may not need to be all that sensitive but if...

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You can't do that RB211! You've made something helpful and useful outside the workshop! It'll give (some of) the rest of us a bad name! ....or...

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That's an easy one. You just let your wife decide whether each item needs to be kept or binned. You'll soon have a clear shop! ...

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Sounds like a job for a rattle-can to me. That's how I end up with black grass for a while
Like the decorative fluting....

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My neighbor gifted me some sort of drain clearing contraption for just this purpose. It's a metal coil (spring but with no gaps) for a few metres and...

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Thanks Baz. I do have two 120's, yes. They won't fit in the A position though as anything larger than 60 will hit the spacer on the drive gear. I've...

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Well, I had a few moments to slap some change gears on spindles. Used the Sharpie trick again and got full coverage - or the whole bar turned green. Not...

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"Real life" sucks sometimes. Hope you get some shop time soon.

I got a few minutes and made some progress but forgot to move half...

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I was thinking to just set the compound parallel with the ways and use that to move the cutter by 3mm between each start (not each pass). I think the...

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Afternoon all. Just wanted to say I'm still here and haven't forgotten this - don't want to seem like I'm asking for help and then either not listening...

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plunger I'll prefix this with the obligatory "I'm not a qualified electrician but..." my understanding is that if the case could conduct, it...

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PDQ from that depth. A buoyant emergency ascent at worst so a second or two. It's mainly a function of time at depth that causes the problem as nitrogen...

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I stand corrected. My only experience is with dive cylinders. I know enough to know that a mismatched thread is a sign to stop though!...

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Attended a birthday party where at least one of the participants was lucky to be alive. Turns out the shortly before I got there they were trying to...