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    draw bolt rod

    A piece of heavy web angle iron is usefull when trying to weld pipe or bar in perfect alignmen. Vise grip both pieces into the crotch solidly and weld a short spot, rotate a smidge and weld again
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    Fairbank Morse Lathe $150 Maple Ridge

    I didnt want to "spoil" the boss here....so i fixed her old one last week....after avoiding it for 8 months.
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    ER40 collet chuck

    I have wondered this before and your post I have wondered this before while reading other threading pages that if it isnt simply a gear engagement setting that produces the small differences in cut threads. Even a slight difference in gear to gear meshing should make the change in tool speed...
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    Rotary table, $150, Smithville, ON

    Those pallet planks will be 3.5" wide so can be used as a fairly close scaling item.
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    Whelp, there goes the neighborhood.

    Carefull Don, by the time you get all those rust holes filled back up with good steel you wont be allowed much payload in the box!!!
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    Tips/Techniques Looking for easy removable thread locker

    This is my suggestion also I have used Copper-coat on lots of finger tight air fittings in a pinch on trucks.
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    Remington auction

    I think most of the big production machines that werent totaly wore out went to Ruger in the original disbursement. Remington itself was only just an ammo producer for the last years. Remingtons demise started when it ws acquired by a financial conglomerate that let it be run into the...
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    4 x 6 Bandsaw Table

    Thats one project I regret not doing years ago for my bandsaw.
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    Dabblings

    Chicken... some of that road looks real ugly....I sure dont miss those "pilot car, over dimensional 150,000 lb loads" on roads like those!!!
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    Compressor $600 Sylvan Lake, AB

    I agree 1000x I was standing outside our shop when the hot water tank my old man converted to a compressor reservoir let go ....as my neighbor said when he pulled the trigger on a plugged shotgun barrel "biggest damn bang I ever heard".
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    Tool Chucking Reamers

    Just spit-balling here...are not all shotgun barrels almost universaly "hard chrome lined" these days....could be what causes the "chatter on the first pass and it seems that once chatter starts every pass afterwards follows the chatter path. Single point reaming might be the only way to get...
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    DavidR8's shop shenanigans

    My shop was like that for years and then a greenhouse that the "Boss" worked at shut the doors and i was given the opportunity to salvage a trailer load of the warehouse racks on wheels (slightly damaged that wouldn't be saleable )that they used to move product around . Very heavily built with...
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    Tips/Techniques 3 pin check for holes larger than gage pin

    One thing to be aware of when using sulfur for a chamber casting...the fumes that come off that stuff can be very nxious when being heated, always do it outside with a breeze blowing and stay upwind. Sulfur can have enough H2S residue in it to knock you down. and it dont take much of that stuff...
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    Tool Making Brushes and dryer tube clean outs.

    A bit of an unorthodox suggestion but if you have room to feed a heavy lenght of logging/tow chain down the pipe & shake/wiggle it around it will jar the crud loose and it will fall to the bottom opening. If you dont have room to do the wiggle/shake thing, the chain (if heavy enough) will...
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    Keyway Milling machine, $100, Coalhurst, AB

    Holy wow I could have used that machine at one time, not for slotting so much, but for slab siding barrel blanks into octagon "replica antique barrels. Even now if someone wanted to tackle that business, it could "print money" as the boys are suggesting.
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