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    Best outdoor paint for steel?

    Do you know what 10% hydrochloric acid means in terms of PH or molar concentration? Those are the measures of acid strength that make more sense to me
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    Cribbage Pegs

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    Dabblings

    For what it is worth, there exist a group of medicines that can be much more effective. I found out about them when I was undergoing cancer treatment. The costs are exorbitant, and when they describe a side effect as 'bone pain' hold on to your socks. I hope you all feel better soon
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    Repair for lathe (Emco V13)

    If you have a bent lead screw, I wonder how straight is the bed? If that has been damaged, your machine might be a write off
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    Cribbage Pegs

    Here I was doing something 'simple' I hardly needed to look at the gauges. I was going to do all six just by eye and tell the children that the discrepancies were features! But at least my middle son has told me that they are not alike enough. So i need to do better
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    Cribbage Pegs

    what material? Not brass
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    Cribbage Pegs

    Before I managed to make this one, I tried cutting it thinner first and then taking small cuts. That was no good. Then I made this one by leaving it thick and taking a big cut right to the final size. It worked much better
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    Cribbage Pegs

    I didn't take a picture of my progress. But what I did was to to turn the blank down to around a 1/4 (by eye because it didn't matter). and then to set the tool close to the minimum diameter at the very end of the stock. Then advance the tool slowly using the compound. The result starts at a...
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    Cribbage Pegs

    Recently, our family when on a trip near Trenton and we made a visit to the air force / aviation museum there. One of my sons found a cribbage board in the gift shop that was produced for the 100th anniversary of the air force and anyway we got it. It is clearly meant to be a wall mount piece...
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    Do you have a mill and what kind is it?

    I am in the opposite situation. My wife is a dog person, but I'm not really. I tolerate the dogs because my wife wants them in the house. Interestingly, the dogs gravitate to me anyways. I both tell them no, and run the barbeque, so maybe it isn't so much of a surprise
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