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  1. J

    Show us your shops!

    Afci are the shits in a garage. When I built the house pretty much everything had to be afci'd and tamper proof plugs everywhere aswell. I replaced the afci'd back to standard breakers as I couldn't run any of my power tools. Even had to do afci/GFI on my well pump as it's In a shallow well...
  2. J

    Tool spotting blue for scraping?

    Also for you Toronto guys there is auction in Cleveland Ohio that has power flaker and bunch of surface plates and Camelback and few other things that a machinist would be interested in...
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    Tool spotting blue for scraping?

    I too am learning to scrape. I currently been using the permatex blue and find it hard to spread and easy to over due and also easy to under do aswell. It doesn't seem to stain hands too bad but I was gonna try using the concrete colouring that I've seen few people use on YouTube before. This...
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    Making of a flat lap.

    I did about 4 blind scrapes in 45 pattern after surface grinding then probly 5 or so more bluing after that to get to here. The flatness is probly the work of the surface grinder vs me lol. I don't know how I feel about my current scrapper blade It. I find it hard to aim and easy to gouge the...
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    Making of a flat lap.

    The scrapper is carbide, and as for cast iron I got a small load of scrap steel I got to drop off and was gonna see if scrap yard had any useable chunks of iron laying around. I do have a cast iron counter weight from forklift I want to cut chunks out but been pre occupied with shop so a lot...
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    Making of a flat lap.

    Thanks bad habit but nice and comfy I got crock patterns in some of my socks from welding. @Mcgyver I don't have autocollimator yet it's on my wish list just not sure what to get yet. and don't know anything about interferometer. I would say my lapping knowledge is limited not something I've...
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    Making of a flat lap.

    Did some lapping today with cast iron and aluminum and didn't like how it went so scrapped the idea of using aluminum and hunted around for some more cast I could lap with, ended up cutting up what was left of a table saw extension that was broken. Ended up with two useable chunks of similar...
  8. J

    Making of a flat lap.

    Funny enough I'm currently rewatching his vids about lapping as I remember seeing them in the past
  9. J

    Making of a flat lap.

    I figured it would be nice to be able to lap small objects and make them look more refined and shinny. So I dug a piece of scrap cast iron out of seacan and looked around all my random cut offs of stuff I've collected and found a suitable piece of aluminium for the 3 flat surfaces I need to...
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    If tools could talk

    Ye I think it was micro pencil grinder or something it's looks like it atleast. I would like to know what this guy used to mark this piece of HSS I bought. It looks very sharp like they used a small diamond wheel or something.
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