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  1. Stuart Samuel

    Giant metal boulder sculpture (art casting with sand molds)

    That's a great project. We did some intentionally textured aluminum castings at work a while back, using 3D printed patterns. Ended up using an old file as a chasing tool to texture the joints, just overheated it for a bit to intentionally grow the grain, broke it off, then hardened and tempered...
  2. Stuart Samuel

    Now I have seen Everything!

    I mean, my Super 7 was living in my kitchen for a month or so, until CWret was kind enough to take it off my hands... It helped add some chips to my chips, and a little machine oil to my olive oil. Never did get around to making that salad spinner attachment, but now that I've got a 16" swing...
  3. Stuart Samuel

    Shop Compressor Air water separator.

    VP Systems sounds like one of those shops worth their weight in gold. The benefit to all the other shops they interact with (hobby and professional) would be hard to overestimate. For reference, something I just bumped into (I'm on vacation this week, and what do I do (other than a canoe...
  4. Stuart Samuel

    REIDEN-T200 renovation continues - stern top trailing post

    Just a guess! Haven’t tried this, and I’m sure there’s give to UHMW (and everything else, for that matter), it would depend on the force applied, and how repeatable you wanted it.
  5. Stuart Samuel

    REIDEN-T200 renovation continues - stern top trailing post

    Same. I find it a convenient way to, say, peck drill, or perform a small run of identical parts. As long as the bumper was hard enough to register consistently (say, UHMW polyethylene), it’d still work.
  6. Stuart Samuel

    New Member- Barrie Ontario

    Welcome from the Big Smoke! (not much smoke these days, mind...)
  7. Stuart Samuel

    Maximat 7 long bed, $1800, Hamilton, ON

    Drove down to visit my friend Shao Pin in Hamilton, came away with a bag full of drill chucks and arbours, and he mentioned in passing that he was selling a little lathe. Sure enough: https://www.facebook.com/share/Ur7BxyWJkGzR3o7o/?mibextid=79PoIi Seller highly recommended, I’ve known him...
  8. Stuart Samuel

    SOLD - Stanko 6R12 Vertical mill

    I was really confused for a split second there…
  9. Stuart Samuel

    Newfoundland to Ottawa

    If you’re looking for other smiths in the area, Shane Stackpole over at Forged in Canada in Pembrook is a great guy. (I took a design course alongside him two years ago)
  10. Stuart Samuel

    Shop Compressor Air water separator.

    Hey John, you could check Princess Auto, as Tom O suggests, and you might get lucky on diameter, or maybe make up an o ring to suit? You can buy spools of o ring stock from a variety of places, maybe somewhere your way will sell to length? I don't know how they do under extreme pressure, but...
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