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Dabbler certainty helped me to spend money to buy a hole into which I could pour more money. Thanks I am having a great time learning. Gary

I broke my first tool trying to pull one of the pins (also broke the head off the pin). I'm going to try a variation of Peter T's idea...

It's worth the visit if you get close. There is a very large scale radio control mosquito in north Victoria it's painted to model how...

It's coming along. If you haven't seen it for a few years you should notice a change. As I said Saturday is the day to visit as the...

That is more or less what I also envisioned but not sure I could execute.

Yes Peter that's it. The museum is only open on weekends in the winter. Saturday is the mosquito work day.

The materials are a steel cylinder with aluminum heads, the pins are about 1/2 inch with the 1/4 inch know on the exposed end. Anyone...

That is close to my imagined tool. But would have to engage te groove.

Who said er collet great idea sadly I was Un able to execute. I did manage to reduce the pin head from 0.250 to 0.240. So I did try...

This a pin head (one of 16) that needs to be extracted. My challenge is to design and make an extracter (puller). As you can see the...

I like the y gib lock. Did you make that? I use it to get my hand dirty.

I think I'm done just some clean up (isn't there always). I covered the oiler on the back so not sure what I'm going to do about that...

I made a thread on ER32 chuck for my old imperial southbend. I played a mix and match game with the gears and got within about 1% of...

Maybe that worked. I think I got it.

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