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    How did they make this back in the day? Wooden radio knob.

    if you have resin 3d printer to you disposal (or friend with one) you can try it printing in resin. You will get much more precise and detailed print without layers and filament artifacts, and paintable
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    Product Anchor Lube...

    I am constantly using old lotions and moisturizers that my better part is throwing away. It is "free", it has same viscosity and smell :) and it is in infinite supply.
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    How to shorten glass linear scale?

    I have it already. It is older type scales and head is not so much intelligent as modern ones, but I have it for free.
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    How to shorten glass linear scale?

    Hi folks. Need to cut glass-in-alum profile scale to size. There are lost of videos and discussion around - people just using band saw or hack saw for that. Who had a first-hand experience - is that really works ? Hack saw cutting glass and not shuttering it ?
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    CA-ALL Farm yards are a great stock source

    You sounds very convincing :) I have lots f small screws metric and imperial mixed all together. It became a really headache to find matching tap or die. Often it is easy to go to the store and buy something, just picking from the marked bin, then ploughing trough my own stuff. Anyway, I...
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    CA-ALL Farm yards are a great stock source

    So this is exactly my concern. This thin plate may have only 1-1.5 turns of the thread. It would be easy to cross-thread it. I ordered thread checker of another kind just yesterday - Universal Thread Checker Inch & Metric on Ali. Will see how it works and feels.
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    CA-ALL Farm yards are a great stock source

    Does this screw checker have actual threads inside that holes ? Or it just flat holes/bores?
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    Tools you waited too long to acquire

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    New member - Ottawa area - Live steam and miniature IC engine interest

    Welcome from Ottawa, Kanata area. Indeed, there are more and more folks here from Ottawa.
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    Looking for an insert

    I have 12" Hendey and 10" South Bend . I know that it has to be different sizes of the toolholders, but I hoped I can get away with same insert sizes. I am pure hobbyist - no production, no rush so smaller insert for bigger toolholder is very viable option.
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