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Recent content by ShawnR

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    DavidR8's shop shenanigans

    Do you work? or sleep? or have been cloned? Geez man....:-)
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    Follow rest

    My rests look exactly like @Susquatch 's
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    Follow rest

    Oh, they talk to me! They tell me over and over to take up knitting instead! :rolleyes:
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    Follow rest

    I think my post was a little confusing. I was only trying cuts as small as 0.003 to try to alleviate chatter. Nothing helped with chatter. Overall I have much more to remove. I think I will explore other options that have been suggested to me. Steady rest, step cutting, etc. Perhaps I will...
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    Belt Sander Electrocution

    Humidity level in the shop? Can you bring it up? Any idea what it is? Typically, we get static shocks in the winter time when the air is dryer. But if this is a new issue for you that has, previously, not been a concern, then need to think about what has changed. Is it a new supplier of belts...
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    Follow rest

    Hey Brent!! I am building my list of things to get your personal assistance on! :-) The piece of stock is about 20 inches long. My follow rest runs on the cut section (behind the cutter, relatively speaking) so I think it should be good, no? I cut a section next to the tailstock until the rest...
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    Follow rest

    In preparation for an upcoming project of profiling a long tube, I thought I might practice a bit with a follow rest. Material is just hot rolled steel, about 1.25" diameter. I have tried with HSS and carbide, new insert, different insert, and sharpened the HSS more than once. I am still...
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    Belt Sander Electrocution

    Stelios Are you getting a static discharge shock or is a continuous current flow? As many have suggested, a missing ground to the motor and therefore, metal frame of the sander may be a factor. There is a test on medical equipment that I used to do called a leakage current test. It involved...
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    Zenair CH601HD

    OK. Thanks for the input. I was wondering if one type of spray foam had advantages over another. But I was thinking more the sanding/shaping aspect. Will get some low expansion foam tomorrow.
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    Zenair CH601HD

    No, I am still at the fitting stage. The one labelled "cowling mod" is where I am at. I built up bondo until the gap was filled under the new intake, then I am going to take a contour out of the old cowl to make a better transition into the new intake. That is where I am going to try spray foam.
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    Zenair CH601HD

    @phaxtris your timing is spectacular! I too am working on my cowling. I have to remove the original air intake and install one to accommodate an air filter. I built up the cowling to fit the profile of the new intake, but was wondering what to do next. I also was looking at different profiles...
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    Photos not opening

    I got this screen with a few of @phaxtris images yesterday in this thread and figured it was his photo format. But then I responded to the thread with a photo and today, my own image gives me the same error. I went and looked at some other threads, older photos and they open normally. Anyone...
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    Zenair CH601HD

    I have done a few tow bars. I like a round handle, even standard 1/2 to 3/4" pipe works well., maybe I have girly hands.... I used a spring to hold the moving arm to the fixed arm and weld a piece of 3/8ish rod to the moving arm as a counter lever. I tried to do sketch but it was easier to run...
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    making "spherical" surfaces with a boring head (?)

    Not having used a mill much, and not having all of this equipment, I could not fathom what the heck you guys were talking about. Stefan cleared it up for me. Thanks @thestelster . I do have a ball cutter for my lathe, but it was made for my old lathe and I have not adapted it to the new one...
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    Busybee B096 mill drill manual

    See this link from their site. As everyone pointed out above, all the same. The link starts as a B069 (typo probably) on their site, but opens to this one. https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0631/9643/0502/files/B096.pdf?v=1725907833
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