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    Indexing Dividing Head, 6 inch, 3 Jaw Chuck, $425, Calgary, AB

    ya, I think you've got me for about $900 or so.....:D
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    Aluminum surface finish from needle scaler

    That looks great!. Much more of a sand cast appearance than my attempts. What shape tips did you settle on for that?
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    Whelp, there goes the neighborhood.

    I always think that one of these days I'll actually get a season ahead, but it's always reactive maintenance on "in season" junk lol.
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    Whelp, there goes the neighborhood.

    Looks great. You're getting pretty good at that. When you're done there, you wanna come over and do some patch work on my mower deck?
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    Aluminum surface finish from needle scaler

    After sitting in a forklift safety training class (theory and regs) for 7 hours today, and traffic on the way home I couldn't wait to play around a bit when I finally got here...... My needle scaler is just a princess auto cheapy. I stopped on the way home tonight to see if I could pick up...
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    Surface Grinder, Little Britain, Ont, Auction

    There is also a Grill chuck arbor for that perfectly centered rotisserie Chicken. https://hibid.com/lot/193904569/spindle-for-shaper-and-grill-chuck-arbor?ref=catalog Also note that the tailstock for the rotary table is a separate auction if you're bidding on it. Would be a shame to have them...
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    First send cut send trial project - welding coupon bend test rig

    Amazing post. Thank you for taking the time to write it and offer some insight. I really appreciate that.
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    First send cut send trial project - welding coupon bend test rig

    Thanks. You were one I was hoping to pick the brains of. As a machinist (if all you have is a hammer....), I was planning on milling them off, but will look into a bandsaw jig also. A few videos, mainly the weld.com ones had also mentioned 1gf being the hardest one also, so I will give that...
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    Aluminum surface finish from needle scaler

    Got finished needle scaling my mower deck for some repairs, and thought I'd play around with a block of aluminum before I put it away. I'd done this a long time ago on a machined case cover protector I made for a motorcycle, but always wanted to play around with it again and experiment more...
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    First send cut send trial project - welding coupon bend test rig

    Awe Shucks. Thanks Big Guy :D. I gotta work on that currency conversion stuff though....Still burning me.....:D
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    First send cut send trial project - welding coupon bend test rig

    I don't mean "I" as in "I single-handedly built that", I recognize engineering/manufacturing is all a giant team effort. Some more cohesive than others.... More referring to the fact that my entire careers work is buried behind the scenes, hidden in an industry completely unknown to 99.675% of...
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    Tool 20ton Hydraulic press mystery

    Well the time came that I needed to make some more tooling for this. I need to weld in a few patches to my mower deck, and needed a radiused punch. Some scrap pile brainstorming and I came up with this. The gussets are from my "bucket o gusets" left over from my forge firepot I think. I...
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    First send cut send trial project - welding coupon bend test rig

    That's a cool looking project. I'm looking forward to being on some big jobs, perhaps things like that in the near future. Stuff you can point out to the eye rolling family and say "I helped build that". Currently I can point to a car, and say, somewhere under that rear seat, I designed and...
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    First send cut send trial project - welding coupon bend test rig

    Thanks John. I would like to find a local source for stuff like this, but have been curious as to the painlessness of sendcutsend for a while. I will do more digging for local (east GTA) places, but from past dealings with similar services, most don't want to deal with one offs, and guys off...
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    First send cut send trial project - welding coupon bend test rig

    With that out of the way, I need to go out and cobble together a radius upper die for my press brake attachment to make some patch panels and do some "non" critical welding on my mower deck....Fun times...
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