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    What is this set screw ?

    Thanks Susquatch. Appreciate your help. Is there another approach that might be viable - to get closest bigger modern setscrew with hex socket head, drill out thread from the hole and cut another thread instead. This way I will have "standard" screw and hex socket head Story about vernier -...
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    What is this set screw ?

    Here we go.
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    What is this set screw ?

    Hello there. I have setscrews in my vintage Hendey lathe with following dimensions - thread matches the gauge with inscription "24 or 3/16/or 7/32" . Setscrew diameter 1/4" and length around 7/8. Has slotted head. I looked trough various sources of fasteners but found nothing close to that...
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    High build primer source and alternatives

    This one? Should it be two-component stuff...
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    High build primer source and alternatives

    Sorry, have to decline - don't like smell of sulphur (like somebody is puking all the time) :eek:
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    High build primer source and alternatives

    Well, casting is not that rough to use conventional body filler. It is more like an "orange skin" that is possible to have a good finish with just high build primer. Why I want "good finish" ? good question - I don't have right answer... just because...
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    High build primer source and alternatives

    Hello gang. Looking into reasonable alternative to high build primer (AKA sandable primer, AKA filer primer). Better be epoxy. I checked local stores, automotive suppliers and body shops, Amazon... Price is too high for my budget. I am going to rebuild/repaint my newly acquired milling...
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    Shielding Gas in the Ottawa region

    Hey Rob. There is a guy called Chris (or Cristopher) . He is advertising himself as gas supplier in Used Ottawa or Kijij . He is somewhere east to Ottawa, not that far. Prices are OK. At least were OK.
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    Prema Shaper Toolpost from scratch

    Hi Dan. I have Prema Shaper no 3. Glad to see anybody also having and using this shaper. Mine was abandoned and kept outside high school workshop, stuffed with grease and covered with rust. I never had any papers for it. Wondering of you have something and if you can share it. Thanks.
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    Just Joined

    Hi everybody. Just discovered this amazing forum and joined immediately. Glad to see fellow Canadian metal hobbyists around. I am in Ottawa, Have hobby shop with working South Bend heavy 10L lathe, 8 inch desktop Atlas lathe and Taiwanese clone of King USA universal mill. In restoration...
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