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    Drill press repair

    You may consider building up the taper with a mig welder and re- machining the taper. The taper needs to contact for the full length for accuracy and prevent slipping. It appears that the nose of the taper has been massacred and is undersize and you have no wiggle room to go up because of the...
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    Parts washer solvent

    Ah, another SFT member:D. Yes, that was where the idea came from, but I'll be a few years yet befor I have to change out the 5 gallons of juice, and maybe by then I will not be able to afford the carbon tax on it.
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    Upgrade on lathe and mill.

    There you go. If you use it often it is worth having. A short taper like JT is easily done with the compound, but to have the contraption lurking around for once a year use is not for me.
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    Parts washer solvent

    Why yes, that is the idea. It is to collect the goo and crud dissolved by the solvent.. It really will be difficult for rust to survive in a low/no oxygen environment. At present the grunge has no where to go, but to stay in solution, or settle to the bottom til the pump sucks it up and...
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    Parts washer solvent

    I use the stuff sold by AIF / NAPA. I think it's varsol. Usually some diesel gets thrown in as well. I have a proper parts washer with a drain pan and a lid with a Woods metal fusible link. Smell is no issue as even if the lid is left up the solvent is covered completely by the drain pan. I am...
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    Flange Bearings

    In my case I wondered the same thing. I have one customer, a seed cleaning plant and often their shafts are bent. and then the grease gets a workout til the housing wears. The other thing that happens is the bearing sizes and then rotates in the flange, and it is run that way til end of season...
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    Upgrade on lathe and mill.

    I find it fascinating that everyone wants a taper attachment. I've had them, I think there is one for my current lathe, not sure where it is.... I never bother to cut my own morse tapers, or JT tapers. I can't think of what i would want to do with one. I spent my time trying to always cut...
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    Mill scale removal ?

    I de-rusted a complete JD Model B with my battery charger. It removes paint very well also.
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    Dabblings

    3" magnum slug?
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    Tool Drill Doctor Experience

    I have a Drill Doctor 750, it will handle 3/4" bits. I'm not a big fan of Lee Valley, and I've seen and used that creation before. I do better holding a bit in my fingers. Split pointing is something I'm not good at and generally do that with my bigger morse tapers and S&D bits....which results...
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    Tool Drill Doctor Experience

    I have one, they do a beautiful job. But so can I. I always promise myself to dust it off and set it up and use it, but if a bit goes dull and I am in the middle of some repair, I just go over to the grinder and touch it up and it's sharp again. Then it is good til the next time I drill into a...
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    Shop executor?

    I'm fairly certain the kids will call up the scrapper.
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    Eclipse

    Really? You have to ask? Ha ha Ha:DI kinda wonder if they survived being strained through a pinhole in a condom:D
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    Eclipse

    Finally!! A Solar Eclipse explained on a schoolgirl level. I always thought the moon was made of green cheese.o_O:p Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, misinformed a group of high school students in Houston that the moon is a "planet" that is "made up mostly of gases." Jackson Lee, who once led...
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    Eclipse

    Yes, and we are seeing the their results. Out here, we were supposed to see this as a partial 11:45to 12:45. I was welding a cattle panel, threw on my shades and welders helmet and meh, nothing at 12. At almost 12:30 we saw a part shadow covering the bottom left and by 12:45 it was done.
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