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  1. Stuart Samuel

    Kerf bending tips for laser/plasma cutting

    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...
  2. Stuart Samuel

    Kerf bending tips for laser/plasma cutting

    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...
  3. Stuart Samuel

    Metal Shop Tools $4000 Prince George, BC

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

    Metal Shop Tools $4000 Prince George, BC

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

    Workplace Safety at work and in the home shop

    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...
  6. Stuart Samuel

    Workplace Safety at work and in the home shop

    Yep! I lease a commercial unit, already finished when I moved in about ten years ago. Landlord had mounted one by the door and one at the top of the mezzanine stairs (both ABC), plus an A on the floor in the kitchen. I added an ABC by the door in the back room, where I do any hot work.
  7. Stuart Samuel

    Vintage Kennedy 620 Machinist Tool Chest, $300, Calgary, AB

    Ahhh, but this one's 'vintage'... :p On a very slightly more genuine note, I do feel like prices have gone up for Kennedy boxes. A little inexplicable, to me? I'd think there are even more machinists retiring now than when I first bought a few boxes. Incidentally, I have two unneeded 520...
  8. Stuart Samuel

    Workplace Safety at work and in the home shop

    Broadly (I did the course, but it doesn't come up often enough that it's easy to recall) there's friable (falls apart into fine, readily airborne fragments if you touch/mash/play football with it) and non-friable (hard chunks that you'd have to take a grinder etc. to to loft bits into the air)...
  9. Stuart Samuel

    Tool spotting blue for scraping?

    I can’t find the specific reference, but I remember Robin Renzetti and Tom Lipton talking about using Charbonnel Aqua Wash Etching Ink for spotting, either alone or mixed with traditional spotting blue. While trying to dig up the reference (lord, is trying to find years old instagram posts...
  10. Stuart Samuel

    Workplace Safety at work and in the home shop

    This is something I’ve tried to improve at my work. When I started there, they certainly had safety glasses and foam earplugs around, but if you wanted anything different, you were on your own. I think the feeling was they were providing sufficient protection, anyone who wanted more was a bit...
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