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  1. 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...
  2. 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...
  3. 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.
  4. 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)...
  5. 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...
  6. 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...
  7. Stuart Samuel

    Tool Christmas Tools

    This seems to be a trend. I think the last time I was at the Centre Block site, they'd implemented a 'gloves all the time' policy.
  8. Stuart Samuel

    Tool Christmas Tools

    I picked up a full face respirator five or six years back, lightly used. Four Irish guys living in a basement, had all been working polishing stone cladding, all quit and sold their gear. Even with a full beard, I find I get a decent seal for nuisance dust. It looks like it’s sorted for now...
  9. Stuart Samuel

    Tool Christmas Tools

    I bought a pair of those goggles from Lee Valley years ago. At the time, the offered tinted lenses as well, which I bought, and like for extended brazing work. The limited peripheral vision is sometimes inconvenient, though. I was using them while torch-cutting apart a crappy workbench made...
  10. Stuart Samuel

    Light duty "precision" impact screw driver?

    One other consideration, depending on Philips drive size, is coated bits. I picked up a set of insulated Wera screwdrivers for work a few months ago, and the #2 has some sort of diamond coating. It's quite grippy, though I have to think it will either wear or become caked with debris and need...
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