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    Help identifying a cutter found in toolbox

    Im not convinced it is a slot cutter, although the outside face of the cutters appear 90 deg to the face of the mount, the sidewalls of the cutters appear in one photo to be at an angle considerably off 90...it would cut a sloped side on one side of the groove and a very rough undercut on the...
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    Tools you waited too long to acquire

    I bet the "deluxe" model comes with skin bandages & gauze strips included.
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    Case hardened steel

    That shaft isnt "case hardened", it is just plain hardened thru & thru and will need specialty tooling without a long total annealing. process.
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    Tips/Techniques Organizing steel.

    I lucked into a bunch of green house carts from a business that my wife worked for and they shut the operation down. these carts are very well built, multi shelved & very sturdy castor wheels because of the multiple pots of soil required to move around. I now have most of my "shop junk" on...
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    Cheng Ki Turret Mill

    I believe I have a surplus 3 hp 3 phase here in central Ab. It aint new but I cant smell any "burnt" evidence....and the price is right...bring a box of doughnuts with you when you come.:)
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    Tips/Techniques Workshop Organization- things that have made a difference for you

    Im in the middle of a major "yard clean-up" of 6o yrs of scrap metal farm & construction/trucking collection and am finding a a few "I might need that sometime" items that have found there way into the shop....so my "shop situation" has gotten worse:(:(
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    Up coming auction.

    Guy Letard writes a story about an eccentric in New Jersey I think it was, that had a very large warehouse full of "still crated brand new" machines that was discovered when he died
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    Tool Cool Project

    I do the exact same thing when cutting an angle with the compound providing I have a specimen of the angle I want to cut . Mount the specimen between centers and then run the side of the compound up against it and lock in that position....cut the angle...
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    RF30 Mill/Drill Surprises

    Make sure you make your handles long enough for a closed end wrench can be used for a snipe to pinch those locks to the quill barrel or it will slip a touch from whatever setting you choose that is "perfect" for your job. I use a 7/8 wrench to crank on my bent handle every time i lock the...
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    K o D's Korner

    I just re-watched the vid & will comment that my hendey had a # on the trans speed plate as well but it isnt the ser # of the lathe, the ser #, if sma as mine, will be stamped on the top corner of the lathe bed , left side and at the very far end from headstock. Mine is not a very heavy roll...
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