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    How to clean inside a cylinder

    What style of hyd cylinder you want to end up with will dictate how much "hone" a cylinder needs. A single/double acting single stage cylinder that uses a pressure ring attached to the end of a solid bar ram needs to be hones glass smooth as anything but will score the pressure seal rings...
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    Chain wear

    I have drug sced 70 chain down a gravel road for a mile or two too take the rust off without it showing that much wear...Im betting that the boomer hooks prob pinched the links they were hooked into on your chain, also betting there was an equal "wear pattern" on the bailer where that piece of...
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    Physical activities…..

    I had a lunch yesterday that some folks would pay a lot of money for...homemade smoked venison summer sausage with home smoked "old chedder" cheese.
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    Railfanning

    I believe the steam engine still runs out of Stettler Ab in the summer. They have entertaining skits (old west hold-up & shoot out) on the train over the 50 mile run it takes you on. I have never been on it but my folks treated my wife &kids to a trip years ago. They run a Christmas train...
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    Railfanning

    Prob not many of us on this forum actually remember watching the old steamers on the tracks. Where I lived as a kid the grain elevator siding was 100 yrds from our house...I cant remember what I had for breakfast yesterday but I vividly remember watching those steam engines switching box cars on...
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    Tips/Techniques Making the Square Drive hole in a custom socket.

    I've got "hurricane & toronado" coming over for a visit this afternoon but their both too young for the shop tools yet...Last visit I offered up a couple of brooms and a floor space for each of them to practice on...that lasted about 30 seconds & the soccer ball took over!!
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    How to clean inside a cylinder

    I used & abused and fixed a couple multi stage hyd hoists for a # of years, I suspect a lot bigger than your planning, mine were 4 or 5 stage 8in in dia and 30 ft long. You will need a certai amount of honing to the inside dia of every stage you require otherwise use will quickly erode the...
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    Telescope secondary mirror support system

    We called them single trees or double trees, depending on how many horses were hitched
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    Physical activities…..

    Ohh man now your making me to want to hit the road again...truck stops, even with all the people always around can be the lonliest places on earth if your away from the family for extended periods....but man, the meals they can/do provide are top notch...good white gravy on anything or corn beef...
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    Physical activities…..

    Well, ive got the bagels on hand and 3 different flavors of home made smoked venison sausage and the "Boss"is on her way up town now for some cream cheese ...any other suggestions so I can phone her the order before she turns around!!
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