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  1. PaulL

    type of drill needed to make holes in aluminum

    Use the sub-sonic ones.
  2. PaulL

    Tool Parallel storage

    Parallels, adjustable parallels, 123 blocks, v-blocks, jacks, a couple of indicators in fixed holders, shim stock, edge finders. Really, I should call it the vise setup drawer. The clamping kit sits next to the machine. And another few edge finders there. Can't seem to have enough edge finders.
  3. PaulL

    Tool Parallel storage

    Mine are in the blow moulded box, but with a twist: I cut the lid off. Those paralles live in the "setup" drawer, and with no lid they are actually convenient to use. I can still pull the whole box out, though I can't fling it around.
  4. PaulL

    What's Paul up to?

    More forge time. A little bickern. Thank goodness for the little power hammer or I'd still be swelling my biceps. I've been wanting to make one of these for years and I now find myself with a few sockets to make and some 1 3/4" round mild steel to make it out of. Until now I've been using a...
  5. PaulL

    What's Paul up to?

    A bit of time in the forge. Was getting fed up of using a screw clamp to hold some beams I've been mortising. Works like the dickens in my 2" bench top. Not so well in my 6" monster, which is where I chop mortices. Probably need to relieve the bottom half of the hole. Which means turning...
  6. PaulL

    Noise

    "Other" is pretty ambiguous!
  7. PaulL

    What a difference 8 minutes can make

    Reversed scenario here. The central retina went bad years ago in my right eye, but I've been lucky to keep all th surrounding vision. And then a few years ago a cataract moved in on that eye, probably due to the surgery. So I ignored it, figuring that it wouldn't make much difference. And...
  8. PaulL

    Noise

    Have no fear, I've heard them at 8:00am sharp every day I've been in town. They practice at the track that's a hundred meters from home!
  9. PaulL

    JCDammeyer's 42 projects

    I've hand-assembled boards with 0402 parts. I couldn't even pick up the 0201 - I couldn't hold my best tweezers steady and softly enough. Attiny84a microcontroller, adxl362 accelerometer, and a hall effect sensor at the south end, a discrete component vhf transmitter at the north end, in this...
  10. PaulL

    What's Paul up to?

    Fortunately his use is non-load bearing. He's been putting together a lathe and mill out of found materials, and this will be his 4tpi lead screw for the carriage. So there will be some twisting loads bit no buckling loads to speak of.
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