hones: sintered-synthetic-ruby vs diamond

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I don't have any horror stories to share, but I do notice when working with hammer and chisel that the chips smoke when they fly off. That's enough of...

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more of a "why not?" - I have enough machining projects as it is

OpenSCAD also isn't drawing, you write code to create the object....

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I have long been suspicious about that site. Subscription ($) is required to post, but they will "volunteer" your content from a personal site...

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Has anyone tried 3D-printing a hose-extension (between the hose and the nozzle) with a coarse enough mesh to stop the strings?
My thinking is that...

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My parts are still in a box under the bench!
Can I use fighting with a 3D printer during an unusually humid summer as an excuse? Sure, I'll take...

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I am finding this discussion interesting because one of my back-burner projects is a new toolpost for the clapper on the shaper. I have been going back...

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ABS is known to delaminate so you might want to try PETG or reorienting the part in the slicer if it failed along layer lines - if you haven't tried that...

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I'm not sure "reasoning" even applies. I've had to work with a few electrical engineers over the past couple decades, and they seem to abhor...

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Oh yeah, those little white gooseneck lamps are great! I have one on the mill, one on the lathe, one on the grinder, one on the bandsaw, and a couple...

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What has always stopped me from making one of these cordless-drill-driven knee or compound power feeds is the worry that the battery will be dead right...

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I was thinking of all those "material/stock" responses today. I was in the vicinity of a metal supplier that has good prices on a pretty wide...

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Interesting. So what you're saying, baically, is that even though the toolpost is in compression (via the bolt from the nut to the compound t-nut), it...

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Well, they are the exact same abrasive in these sense that they are all aluminum oxide, as opposed to silicon carbide or CBN or diamond. Supposedly the...

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I wouldn't worry about the speed difference. That gets trotted out every once in awhile to prove a point, but for all of the languages in common use the...

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I have not used Perl or ActiveState in ... decade(s)?

My advice would be to switch to Python. I only use it at arm's length myself but it...

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Water, same as diamond. The ruby does not load up as fast as the diamond or ceramic hones/stones.

Ceramic: was referring to the Shaptons...

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I'm glad you did, despite all the back-and-forth. I thought the heat breaks were all a standard form factor - doesn't make sense to change them just to...

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Heat gun did the trick! About five minutes at the high/1000F setting, applied to the chuck jaws+allen wrench. Put it in low ("1"), changed to...

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This a follow-up to a post off in some random thread. The question is : how does a sintered-synthetic-ruby stone compare against a high-grit diamond hone?...

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Earlier this year, I picked up the large-model Snapmaker, which is rather pricey. The first prints were fine, but as soon as I started breaking out of...