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  1. Xyphota

    aborted grocery shopping rant...

    Our experience with produce has been pretty good, so maybe it has to do with what the store managers are instructing
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    aborted grocery shopping rant...

    Have any of you guys considered the grocery pick-up options if it is available in your area? My partner and I use the online grocery order for superstore every week and I am a big fan. You place your order, pick an available time slot for when you'd like to pick them up (usually has to be at...
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    Xyphota's bicycle related projects

    Remounted the frame in the v-blocks and spent probably an hour trying to get it realigned while compensating for the warp in my table top. Finished up my dummy axles. The notch is to keep the slot in the bicycle dropouts aligned. I hand filed the radius around the thread hole because I didn't...
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    Tips/Techniques Feedback on Brazing techniques and results

    It didn't even occur to me that the bubbles could be from the brass itself. Very interesting. The outside looks a bit copper coloured to me, would you say this looks like it was overheated? Thanks for the tip. Do you try to file a radius into the dropout to match?
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    Tips/Techniques Feedback on Brazing techniques and results

    Here is some brass brazing practice. I purchased some tinted glass-blowing glasses which made seeing the colour of the metal much easier. Do you guys have any recommendations as to how to avoid bubbles? EDIT: This is 1/2" x 0.028" chromoly tubing brazed to 3/16" chromoly plate. The flux used is...
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    Xyphota's bicycle related projects

    I’m mostly copying Don Ferris’ settings. He uses a 2Hz pulse which is a bit quicker than my skills, so I’ve dialed it back to 1.3 hz https://web.archive.org/web/20081230042919/http://anvilbikes.com/?news_ID=22&catID=3
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    Xyphota's bicycle related projects

    I'm using a 2005 miller dynasty 200 I picked up off kijiji a few weeks ago
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    Xyphota's bicycle related projects

    This is a #9 air-cooled torch with a flex head and superflex cable/hose. When you make cylindrical welds, you have to rotate the torch as you move around your circumference, and the superflex hose and smaller (lighter) #9 torch body make this a bit easier todo while keeping the torch steady. If...
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    Xyphota's bicycle related projects

    Thanks! I did have two small blow-throughs which were on the non-mitered tube, heatsink backed, so that was a bit surprising lol. The tacks on my head tube made a small riser on the backside of the tube. I tried filing them down a bit before welding, but maybe they were still proud enough that...
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    3D Mouse Recommendations

    I have a spacemouse, and It is definitely a high quality product that is worth the money if you do a tonne of CAD. During my internship, I had to make technical drawings and clean up an assembly in SolidWorks that had several thousand parts in it. I think 90% of the benefit of the spacemouse is...
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