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  1. Bofobo

    Source for screws

    I’ve used foothills fasteners for quite a few purchases, no mention of minimums and my Lowest bill was about $1. I hate restrictions on how much one would need to spend for them to shut up and take the money.
  2. Bofobo

    Casting exchange

    Sounds like fun, any plans for that?
  3. Bofobo

    Casting exchange

    I am looking for a project to cast and machine, but I don’t have a working printer, was hoping to be doing a steam engine but if you have something else useful for the shop in mind or a line on some machinable project patterns available in thingyverse or what have you, I would be interested in...
  4. Bofobo

    What to do

    Smaller gaps, use a nut and bolt of comparable size to the gap and you can use half the width of the nut as expansion/ jam, larger ones use your clamping kit pieces in the same way
  5. Bofobo

    Grizzly Horizontal mill

    Like my mini this would need a better motor but I would have snatched one up over the one I have because it is more BP styled and has greater functionality as a result. My YouTube could use a new review video, I am taking sponsorship items grizzly reps.
  6. Bofobo

    Can this sort of vice be used for milling?

    I think this old tony (or AvE) made a video recently of a 2piece vice, I use basically the same cheap blue soba(?) As Craig pictures above but my old drill press vice is clearly better manufactured and I have considered the swap but I’m going with a 3” or 4” Kurt type from dales machine tools in...
  7. Bofobo

    Aluminum rods

    So does that mean my 4’ lead mastercraft fluxcore/mig can do aluminum? I mean mine has a burn in the gas feed line so I would need to replace it and add shielding gas but since flux core is reverse polarity anyway I’m pretty much a bottle and wire from testing this “impossibility”!?. Just like...
  8. Bofobo

    sucking in SK

    Co2 generators are used in green houses and commercially available
  9. Bofobo

    Plasma cutters

    My mastcraft welders ground wire frayed under the shrink wrap.... possibly!?
  10. Bofobo

    Aluminum rods

    Neighbour gave me 2 of these to try but I have not yet
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