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  1. Stuart Samuel

    Homemade cabbing machine from scrap.

    If anyone’s interested, I have a cabbing station and a slab saw looking for a good home. (Edit: Taken!) Came out of a friend’s Dad’s shed. Don’t know anything about them, just couldn’t leave them at the curb for scrap metal.
  2. Stuart Samuel

    Looking for British BA tap/die set, BA 0-10.

    No leads on a decent set, but I have some duplicate taps that will likely never see use. Six 10-BA Thread Well brand taps, made in USA, four 2-BA taps and 3 0-BA taps, those two sizes with a logo with three overlapping triangles, which I don’t recognize. If shipping’s not stupid, happy to...
  3. Stuart Samuel

    Mercury

    The only person I know of who's done amalgam gilding in the last few decades is a South African/British guy, Ford Hallam. He focused on traditional Japanese metalwork, as far as I know just sword fittings (guards, etc.). He passed away last year, unfortunately. If anyone's interested, there's a...
  4. Stuart Samuel

    Mercury

    I’ve run into a few antique light fixtures (usually 19c. French) through work that I’m pretty certain were amalgam plated. Mix the mercury and gold, smear the paste that results onto a surface, boil off the mercury. Gives a really fantastic finish, looks like solid gold, nothing like electroplating.
  5. Stuart Samuel

    0.035 Outershield/dualshield worth it?

    Yes! I went through trade college, and got a ticket for 'flat flux core'. Fantastic for slapping heavier stuff together. A few years later, I was in rural Uganda, helping out at a clinic, and they'd heard I could weld. No power, everything ran off generators. 'We have flux core!' they told...
  6. Stuart Samuel

    Oh GREAT!

    I get a kick out of ‘Crypto’ used this way. There’s a Crypto Tires near me, and I spotted a Krypton Nails (salon) in the east end. It’s zeitgeisty! On the AI search result thing: We had a water leak at work, and the closest shutoff seemed to be seized. I was trying not to get involved (busy...
  7. Stuart Samuel

    Workplace Safety at work and in the home shop

    I hadn’t heard anything about tungsten itself (ie, green electrodes), but thorium (red electrodes) is mildly radioactive, so the dust isn’t ideal to huff. Tig outside isn’t really an option, as an errant breeze can blow away your shielding gas. It generates very little smoke or fume, though...
  8. Stuart Samuel

    Workplace Safety at work and in the home shop

    This. Years ago, I had a talk about safety with a younger coworker, after a low grade near miss (same one I shouldn’t have asked to turn off a breaker). She was in her mid 20’s, had been part way through the millwright course at Humber College when the college strike hit (2017, looks like)...
  9. Stuart Samuel

    Workplace Safety at work and in the home shop

    Oh, a recent addition to both the work freezer and my home one: Skin glue. Coworker asked if we had any, as he had a shallow cut on his hand, and was going rock climbing that evening. I've certainly used normal super glue on cuts, the skin glue type is just fine tuned (supposed to be less of...
  10. Stuart Samuel

    Kerf bending tips for laser/plasma cutting

    Yep, I had the same thought about running a torch down that to fuse it. Hmm. Maybe I'll talk to our engineer when I'm back at work Monday, and ask him if he could CAD this up, and slip it into some paying laser cutting in the next few months, to try it out. (I'd like to do the same with some...
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