Search results

That’s a pretty cool little press, nice tonnage for the size. :)

I was just looking at that! I can vouch for the seller as well, I bought a magnetic chuck from him when I was in Ottawa a few months ago. I somewhat dubiously sent him a deposit on it, but all went well. He happily showed me his little machine shop in his basement apartment! He also had some...

I hadn’t heard anything about tungsten itself (ie, green electrodes), but thorium (red electrodes) is mildly radioactive, so the dust isn’t ideal to huff. Tig outside isn’t really an option, as an errant breeze can blow away your shielding gas. It generates very little smoke or fume, though...

This. Years ago, I had a talk about safety with a younger coworker, after a low grade near miss (same one I shouldn’t have asked to turn off a breaker). She was in her mid 20’s, had been part way through the millwright course at Humber College when the college strike hit (2017, looks like)...

Oh, a recent addition to both the work freezer and my home one: Skin glue. Coworker asked if we had any, as he had a shallow cut on his hand, and was going rock climbing that evening. I've certainly used normal super glue on cuts, the skin glue type is just fine tuned (supposed to be less of...

Yep, I had the same thought about running a torch down that to fuse it. Hmm. Maybe I'll talk to our engineer when I'm back at work Monday, and ask him if he could CAD this up, and slip it into some paying laser cutting in the next few months, to try it out. (I'd like to do the same with some...

That was interesting, thanks Dan. At work we do church lighting bodies out of aluminum sheet (~1/16”) with straight dashes. Lets us store them flat until needed, and they’re bent up into a hex. The ‘twist vs stretch’ idea is interesting, but I feel like I can still see a bit of a stress riser...

Maybe you run the cord through a turnbuckle, for a 'macrometer' adjustment...

I like to give the lathe something sturdy to whip around and drag me in with. Adds that frisson of danger.

I had a close call at work a few years ago. I was in the welding shop, heard the shear (~50’ away) power up, start to cut, and then the noise abruptly stopped. I stuck my head around the corner and saw my younger coworker staring at the machine in confusion. I walked over and asked what...