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  1. Stuart Samuel

    Tips/Techniques Vertical up welds & Can a Toaster Oven be used as a 7018 Rod Oven?

    I’m very rusty as a stick welder. But the vertical stick ticket was done up, with 7018. 1/8” electrode, I want to say something like 125 amps? But it’s been, uh… 15ish years since I did my tickets. I’d say you can manage with 3/32” rods at 100 amps, 7018, vertical up. And I don’t see why you...
  2. Stuart Samuel

    Cool Tools in your home shop that you'd not likely not see in someone else's?

    One of those has been on my list for a long time. I’m assuming it’s the same thing I’ve found use of on used tools, looks kind of like extremely tiny TIG welding? Interestingly, my DoAll bandsaw has a socket for an ‘electric etching pencil’, as part of the blade welder unit. I dug around a...
  3. Stuart Samuel

    Cool Tools in your home shop that you'd not likely not see in someone else's?

    I brought this in to work recently, but it generally lives at home. Came in the first toolbox I bought, owned by one Gerard McGeachy. Maybe everyone else knows about them? Called a Line of Chords ruler. This one’s a Chesterman. Folding 24” ruler… that has an angle scale along one edge, as...
  4. Stuart Samuel

    Refining/reclaiming gold for inlay question

    Average yellow gold is, as Paul noted, a given gold content out of 24 parts, with the remainder typically being silver and copper. So the 10k is only a little over 40% gold. 10k is much, much harder than 22-24k, and would be a bear to inlay (you’d be fighting the spring back). Other colours of...
  5. Stuart Samuel

    Shop Stuart’s big dumb thread

    :) Also, I really like this hold-down mechanism. Maybe everyone else has seen it, but it beats the hell out of threaded holes. Three captive balls, knurled cap drives a screw/wedge down and pushes them outwards. The interior/under side of the holes in the table are machined, so the holes are...
  6. Stuart Samuel

    Shop Stuart’s big dumb thread

    It was something I suspected I'd never find used. I've seen the odd cast iron table, but usually 4'x8'. I decided I could wait forever, hoping, or just make a decision with the info at hand.
  7. Stuart Samuel

    Shop Stuart’s big dumb thread

    Yep, it's a Durston. Bought it from some friends, after her Dad passed. He actually tipped it over on himself, and was pinned under it for a few hours, until his wife got home. I had a heck of a time getting it up the basement stairs. I couldn't really afford what it was worth, especially ten...
  8. Stuart Samuel

    Shop Stuart’s big dumb thread

    The table's on wheels, so not hard to adjust. I made the mistake of making too many workbenches, and put them around the perimeter of the room, which quickly became low-efficiency horizontal storage. The room's very much a work in progress. Day job is taking up most of my time and energy lately...
  9. Stuart Samuel

    Shop Stuart’s big dumb thread

    I was just thinking about the DoAll. I bought it for a good price ($800), but man, does it take up a lot of space. And that’s without the table on! If I’m going to sell it, I’d like to see it run first, so I’m clear what I’m giving up. Also came with band files, something I’ve never had a...
  10. Stuart Samuel

    Shop Stuart’s big dumb thread

    If anyone's curious, the table was $5000, give or take, inclusive. I was especially pleased when it was delivered without any additional duty, fees, handling, handling fees, fee handling fees, etc.. I paid the price quoted in late August, and that was it. (Nice to be able to make a decision...
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