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    Acronyms

    My fav in high school....BTBD
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    Damaged lathe Maple Creek SK $500

    I think that would be an excellent starting point for someone wanting to make rifle barrel machine...has enough starting points to make a worthwhile project.
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    Damaged lathe Maple Creek SK $500

    That whole shop would look right in place wrapped around mine...
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    all the torque in the world

    Ya gotta do what ya gotta do when big $hit needs worked on...rosebud torches and 4x torque multipliers can make things "snap" quite loudly when stuff finally moves.
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    Tips/Techniques Cutting High Strength Steel Forging

    from the photo and some of the post's . it apears to me that it cuts the same as any of the old style deep hole drills and they dont wonder much at all, they leave a centering dimple that is the last thing to be cut...the drill stays centered on that dimple and follow it through the cut.
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    Tales from the S-100 dark side.

    This entire thread reminds me why I still use "pencil & paper" and the "English" language :)
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    Sawmill

    My daught & sil have a comercial bought bandsaw mill that will cut 26" butt logs and as long as you want to make the track, I think they have only 6 grand total into it.
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    Tool Rotary table fixture plate

    My problem is the deep grass "protects" better than my "remember where its at" function. Good job with the rotors John, I have half a dozen in that long grass waiting for their # to come up in the "project" list. those big ol' break drums that Chicken will laying around make excellent...
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    Time for some fun

    awsome topic Susq. I can remember & relate to just about everything mentioned by everybody. Acouple nobody mentioned yet....writing very important phone #'s on cigarette packages When drunk in the bar & then forgetting & chucking them out the window on the way home. Spending 45 minutes to...
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    Parts washer solvent

    My parts washer for 50 yrs was me and a pail of some sort and a trip to the 1000 gal diesel tank or the 500 gal gas tank...to the diesel tank if removing baked on crud and then a splash in the gas to remove any of the oil residue. the front of my shop must have had 500 gal. of each tossed...
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