Recent content by Susquatch

I don't do body work. I hate it.

I think you are right. The fact is that cars are about the most recycled product there ever was. Scrap steel makes the steel both better and worse. The process of rolling thinner sheet metal doesnt help. I don't think the air quality has any major affect on the results. But road salt and air...

Holy Crap! Did I say Holy Crap? HOLY CRAP!!! Just for Poops n Giggles what kind of feed rate and surface speed are we talking here? And how big is the lathe, the part, and the tool?

Who is "Your"?

You might be surprised to learn that I did some of the programming for Wordstar. I had written them a big letter with suggestions for improvements with enough detail and rationale that they came back with an offer for me to do it for them. We agree and they sent me the source code (the entire...

1/8 is a lot for screw and nut wear. I'd examine the screw anchor too. I'm not familiar with that machine. The anchor could be at either end of the screw. Once you know which end it is, you can find it be pushing the table back and forth with your hands with the locks disengaged and watch for...

I bet it will be bang on if you crank the handles......

Oh ya, it's called "Dead Art" - not happening.

Nice! Very clean and professional looking. Waaaaay better than my cardboard. That's prolly a reason to get a bigger 3D printer. My mill bed is 42 inches. Can you clamp a vise over them? I'd love to be able to block swarf under my vise as well as beside it. But I wouldn't want them to affect...

What does a printed T-slot cover look like?

I don't even get the joke but it's funny anyway! I only need to imagine the trouble you two could get into.

I guess dirt simple is still dirt simple no matter who makes them eh.... Mine look embarrassing though.

That makes sense. Adding the ish led me to read it as one or the other not combined to be 12 x 30. I agree with your take on it. Ya, Canadians are notoriously metrologically bilingual. I'm prolly as bad as the worst of them. I was born and educated in imperial. So that's my native tongue. I...

The theory suggests that is true. And there may be instances where it works quite well. But good performance hasn't been my experience. It doesn't even work on rusty tools. At best, it seems to stop rust on a surface for a short time, but rust is actually a chemical process that can continue to...

And that matters how? Looking or holding elicits the same results.