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Recent content by pdentrem

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    Tips/Techniques Show your shop related 3DP

    Let’s try this again!
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    Tips/Techniques Show your shop related 3DP

    Those are dwg made in Autocad 2000
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    Tips/Techniques Show your shop related 3DP

    Here you are.
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    Tips/Techniques Show your shop related 3DP

    Unfortunately my cad program does not do step files. I could send you the dwg or dxf file. Pierre
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    Cutting HSS Lathe Bit Stock

    Wire EDM works! I have used a thin edge impregnated diamond wheel on our surface grinder, but now the EDM is number 1.
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    Tips/Techniques Show your shop related 3DP

    Are you asking about the grinding fig? Support required or slice the model into top and bottom sections and glue them together. Using PETG the Purple Primer cleaner will permanently glue them together. Pierre
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    Tips/Techniques Show your shop related 3DP

    I bought a drill attachment to allow some polishing whatevers. To use you are to hold the drill and the handle with the other hand. Ok, let make it better. Printed a link bar to hold the attachment handle stationary to the drill. Works fine for me. Just have to trim the ears of the slot at the...
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    Tips/Techniques Show your shop related 3DP

    Not well organized yet! Here are some of the stl files that I have made up. https://www.printables.com/model/1342663-assorted-catchall/files
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    Tips/Techniques Show your shop related 3DP

    I am making a new grinder base and getting the Vertias grinding jig set up. I printed a 30 degree sled and as shown a 60 degree sled. As I use inserts and ground tools, having a sled makes it easier to sharpen the tools. Pierre
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    Tips/Techniques For Chawbeef -- feed screw shield

    CHAT GPT = Generated Parables and Tales
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    Spade connector question

    I bought a kit off Amazon a few years ago. The metal is so soft that even with a full crimp the wires will pull out. I ended up cutting off the shrink tubes, soldering the wires in and new tubes. Nowadays I go to a not so local electronics store, Nutech in St Catherine’s, and buy my terminals...
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    Rain in Edmonton

    We see similar in Fort Erie. Rains in Niagara Falls a fair bit and nothing to the south. The winter it is all reversed. We get dumped with lots of snow and nothing except green grass even before you get half way to Niagara Falls
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    History (ww2)

    Here is a few books from Canadian Service men point of view. I have read a few to date. My dad’s brother was in Italy from the landing until about 30 days after D-day. After that he and others were move to join with Canadian forces in Europe and remained there until 1946. He never talked about...
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    Telescope secondary mirror support system

    I added the bearing retaining screws to the whiffletrees today. Just need to deburr and flat black paint and they are done. Pierre
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    Railfanning

    Dad started for CN in 1950, and he seen the transition from steam to diesel. As the diesels got more powerful, the streamers were removed from the mainlines and ended up on smaller runs and yard work. His family homestead land was cut off by the rail line, so as a kid he could walk down to the...
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