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    Spring or star washer question

    Yesterday I restored 4 scissor jack that used 16 E-clips each. I removed a total of 64 using a flat screwdriver while covering the E-clip with my finger tips. I am missing only one, it dropped on the floor and got lost in my garage floor mess. These E-clips were not the high quality spring...
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    Fixerup patch up

    My sticky MT2 milling machine spindle fix. I am getting tired and worried of hammering the draw bar holding my MT2 arbors. Has suggested I tried the dead blow plastic hammer and it didn't make a noticeable difference. So I finally decided to make a tool for the job. Luckily my MT2 spindle is...
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    Fixerup patch up

    Found 4 badly seized scissor jack in the dumpster. Just finished cleaning all the corrosion on the first one and it works great. It will be ideal for light lift and alignment setups.
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    Mistake

    I have got to try a plastic hammer or a dead blow hammer. My MT2 spindle is a real bugger to remove any MT2 arbor I stick in there. Everytime I hit the draw bar with a hammer I worry I will damage my spindle bearing.
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    Tips/Techniques Copying parts in a manual lathe

    I think it was setup sold by Eccentric Engeneering call a turnado. , pretty cool tool ! I had a friend who was so good at turning shapes freehand, he laugh at me when I told him I built radius turning tool. He said balls , sphere are the easiest to turn. contoured lathe handles just takes...
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    Fixerup patch up

    Cleaning up in the garden before the winter. Needed to hang stuff off the rafters. Made some hooks out of 5 gallon pail handles. A quick straightening of the rod, bend in half to double the strength and give some welding substance, bend on the universal with a 3" round and tack a large wood...
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    Fixerup patch up

    The roll is 18" X 80",so lots of material to play around with. I also did a metal chip deflector to go over one of my DRO glass scale. That is were I bent the rubber at a right angle on my metal brake. I just use double side tape to hold it there. Here is the link...
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    Fixerup patch up

    Just took a picture. Sorry it's no longer new, I have already put it to work. I copied the original way cover but made it 1" wider. The hardest part was making the aluminum brackets on the ends. Most of my scraptaluminum, would crack when fully crimped except for a electronics chassis box which...
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    Fixerup patch up

    Spruced up the milling machine. -Replaced the stiff rubber threadmill runner that I used has way cover on my Tom Senior milling machine. Has suggested, I bought drawer liner rubber from Princess A. The material is EDPM rubber, flexible, 1/16" thickness. I can produce a good crease using my 3-1...
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    Fixerup patch up

    The vintage tool group I am part of gets tool donated to them and sometimes they are not working or very damaged and need to be repaired. This week I got a federal dial indicator which you could barely see through the lense and the extended stem protector was crushed really badly. Vise grip I...
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