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    Lawnmower broken wheel. Honey, what for you have all your tools ?

    @kevin.decelles . Nice looking hub. I know this stuff is very abrasive. Do you use special printing nozzle ?
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    Lawnmower broken wheel. Honey, what for you have all your tools ?

    No, too advanced for me. I don't have any liquid glass and CO2 setup, I read people also using epoxy with quite a success. I will try next time - i have another project coming.
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    Lawnmower broken wheel. Honey, what for you have all your tools ?

    Hub poured, machined drilled and attached to wheel. there are few defects in aluminum - i think it is non-critical at all. I made a several attempts of pouring and there were qute a few defects - i was suspecting too wet green sand. after a fair bit of experimenting I pored open mold. that...
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    Lawnmower broken wheel. Honey, what for you have all your tools ?

    Printed with and without fillets/drafts, primed and painted. will see how it will be released from the sand.
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    Lawnmower broken wheel. Honey, what for you have all your tools ?

    Yes, It is KIRI. They have free license with limited number per month of processed/rendered models. It uses IPhone camera, then stitches 70 images, for free license, into 3D object and gives you download link. Works quite well for my purposes.
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    Lawnmower broken wheel. Honey, what for you have all your tools ?

    Day ago my older lawnmower pusher started to show some age. I was already looking at possible replacement but my better half asked me very valid question - why do you have your expensive tools and nice workshop if you can't fix this simple thing, Here are photos of the broken hub for the wheel...
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    Cleaning spraying gun after painting

    Thanks. I hate painting too, but I like nice smooth shiny surface :) . So what I end up with - right after blowing gun with solvents and air I am disassembling nozzle and dropping everything everything into jar with solvent and tight lid. Then reassembling just before painting . works OK'ish...
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    Any members anywhere near Magog, Quebec ?

    Right, I was talking to him about this machine... too far even for me, but machine worth it.
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    Any members anywhere near Magog, Quebec ?

    are you negotiating with this guy - Steve Buzzell View profile On universal cutter grinder ?
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    Cleaning spraying gun after painting

    Thanks for you inputs, guys. Another paint that I discovered was two component micropoxy from SW. Not a chip stuff, I bout A+B one gallon each and it is very good. It made, however, sitation even worth. epoxy, is poorly dilutes in anything but acetone and my acetone consumption :) has...
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