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And Rio Tinto (used to be Alcan Aluminum) Kitimat in BC is on the coast, with a deep water port and an LNG export terminal. If we can't sell our aluminum into the US, and China is pissed about tariffs into the US, how about we talk to the Chinese? I'm sure we can figure out a mutually-beneficial...

I never let my schooling interfere with my education. (Mark Twain) Grade 10 PE class. I’m 15, 5’10”and weighed maybe 100 lbs. I hated PE. Class is playing basketball. I’m avoiding the ball as much as possible. and nobody’s going to pass me the ball, because that would be stupid. So I’m...

Welcome from Steveston!

$600? You need to buy some lottery tickets, Dame Fortune is smiling on you right now.

Dollarama here sells 8”x8” and 12”x12” 5mm MDF panels as art supplies, usually about $4 for four sheets. Make great spoilboards for my engravers, and perfect for test engravings before I slap down expensive real materials. My laser engraver has one of the 12” MDF panels taped down to the...

No dimples on any of my cheap calipers. And my mill is mildly discombobulated right now, so dimpling will have to wait until next week. Project #42.

I’ve fixed these by careful filing off the projecting bits and then cautious application of a cylinder reamer. All you want to do is knock off the torn up stuff without altering the taper.

What a brilliant idea. Easy enough to carefully lay out two small dimples on the closed outside jaws at a precise distance. Say 0.200” apart. Then set the vernier at 0.200” less than the desired divider spacing.

Why not just use the appropriate morse extension? Turn down the drill shank so there’s chip clearance at the end of the flutes...

I have the same $12 proximity sensor on my lathe tach, no problem detecting a magnet at 1200 rpm. Sensor too far from trigger? I tried optical, too fiddly. Didn’t like oil and grit, didn’t like having sunlight come in through the shop window.

Welcome from Vancouver!

I do like the marketing strategy of listing it for $15k then dropping to $2k to make it look like a bargain. A conversation from the past, laying out this principle: SWMBO, looking at a blouse while talking to the store owner: “I like this, can I get a discount if I buy two?” Ms. Fengi...

$12 Amazon prox switches on my engraver. No issue with repeatability, typically within a thou or so. The trigger is the black cylinder at 3:00 relative to the end of the prox switch. No contact and won’t destroy the switch if I do something stupid.

Alas, already pending.

Find a plumbing retailer who also runs repair/install crews. In Vancouver, Hillcrest Plumbing, Pioneer Plumbing. The bigger operations do lots of commercial stuff and might have some 4” L in stock and would cut to length for you.