Ye Olde Chip in the Eye

[The Metal Butcher]

Interesting thread. My thoughts would be: no flames, no compressed gas, no pneumatics.. We're machinists, what machinists do best is exotic materials...

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Oh jeeze. I guess I'm glad I didn't go to the ER.



I'll have to look for one of those. I don't do a lot of overhead work though...

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A MAGNET! Never once did that cross my mind. While I don't begrudge letting the doc do it, I might could have saved much of the weekend with a magnet...

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So I got a chip in my eye, when I was not wearing PPE. But there's a catch:

Last Friday, I was welding up some cracks in a backhoe boom in...

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I do like my indexable handle. It's a bit wobbly, but not bad.

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I never could figure out a Carolina 7x13. Spent days messing with it, not much of any look. Replaced it with a 6x6 powerhack saw. Cut's a little slower,...

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I think solder would be a good solution too. Solder is strong as hell. Try ripping plumbing pipes apart. Never going to happen.

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Hindsight is 20-20, but the best way to have done that IMO would have been with a shrink fit and a shoulder.

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A friend was telling me he needed to change his oil soon after swinging by one evening because the low pressure light came on. I went "WHAT!?!"...

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No, you're missing a key point. Not only is he stacking focus, he is stitching images to make a larger photo. You're familiar with panoramas right? You...

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I can. "FOLKS look at this amazing new superglue workholding."

*Workholding fails*

2 days later.

"FOLKS...

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Nope! The conventional way is to do exactly what you want to do. Lens adjustments are much to coarse at that DOF. They sell commercial products like you...

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They're smoking the good stuff. $1200 for a DP barely suited for woodworking?

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I've been following along on instagram. Really good stuff man. I'm happy to see gear shaping still alive and well in the US....

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What size shaft and belt? I have some from a broken drill press, around the 10" class.

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Something is wrong. I use a 10" Rockwell, 1hp, 3 phase, and my maximum cut on simi-tough steel (unknown grade) is about 0.050 on 1.5" stock,...

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5" Center hole is ideal. Otherwise you waste expensive material. It's easy to deal with. I whipped up these washers on the lathe, they work perfectly....

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Close, but not exactly - it takes you to the last post. The button on the far LEFT takes you to the first unread post....

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School work, lit the first fire of the season, and had a nice evening with friends on my Friday.

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Well the way I do it is to let the clutch out just enough to turn it over then jab it back in, not to let the car pull away after starting. All I need...