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    Tool The one pound gantry crane.

    Any guess on how many ‘one pounds’ you lifted with it?
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    Shop New to me equipment coming.

    So I wrestled a piece of roughly 8 1/4” mystery alloy (suspect 4140 or similar ‘tough’ steel into the saw tonight. With a light feed, it still cut through it in 18 minutes. Considering I have almost 20’ of this stuff and uses for steel this size, and the saw doesn’t struggle with it at all, I’m...
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    4140 drops Delta BC 1.50$ LB

    Anyone know how or where to have a sample piece of steel tested to figure the alloy? I suspect that the large diameter stuff I’m bringing home is 4140, or at least a ‘tough’ steel of some sort, but just a guessing game right now.
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    Line boring

    How about a circular mill? Milling a surface 15’ in diameter?
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    Tool How to drive taps

    Thought I’d add a comment here. I learned something new this last few days, that ER40 collets can be found in tap sizes, with the square drive built in as well. The ones I found only went up to 1” tap size, but even that I found interesting.
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    Shop New to me equipment coming.

    I hope to try some large round stock when I’m home over the holidays.
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    $1500 Rhodes slotter-shaper - QC

    I have a rhodes, currently has the regular shaper overarm on it, though I also have the vertical slotter parts as well.
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    Tips/Techniques Vertical up welds & Can a Toaster Oven be used as a 7018 Rod Oven?

    I used to spread a handful of 7018 across the top of my woodstove when I had one, it was my rod oven through the colder months for home use. As long as it’s over 100C for a stretch, it will remove most/all of the moisture. Is it correct? Nope. Effective and cheap.
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    Another threading question

    Playing catchup on the forum, so after reading the first few posts I skimmed the rest, and see you got a fit. In your original picture, just visually looking I knew you had to go deeper, as the with of the ‘groove’ was much smaller than the flat or what will become crest of the thread. Most...
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    Okamoto Surface Grinder 1624N, $2000, Niagara Falls, ON

    I’ve ran a few Okamoto grinders, they are a nice machine.
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