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    Tips/Techniques Making the Square Drive hole in a custom socket.

    You drill a round hole, smaller than the square will become. Insert the pilot align the flats to your liking, and press through with an arbor press or hydraulic press, using care to not tip the part, or allow the broach to be pressed in any way except straight, else you get to buy another...
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    Tips/Techniques Making the Square Drive hole in a custom socket.

    Microfiche. LOL! Very familiar! The parts catalog for one of the aircraft I worked on at the beginning of my career was all on fiche pages. Grumman CS2-F, Tracker, aka, the Stoof. Gods help you if some clown missed the proper place to return the film to in the file index...
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    Tips/Techniques Making the Square Drive hole in a custom socket.

    Special tools! LOL! Ever been around airplanes? Pretty sure, based on my long contact, that there was some clown in a back room, designing effed up tools, then issuing out the drawings requiring that the guys on the shop floor design their parts around the mangled and welded remains of a half...
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    More Old Iron - Small Sizes

    I still use my grandfather's two speed Stanley breast drills, after they were salvaged and cleaned up. The work a treat as a screwdriver, as the two jaw chuck closes down nicely on a hex driver bit. and you don't have to endure the noise interrupting yer peace and quiet. :) Used to pull the...
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    Canox C250E AC-DC Welder

    If you can read the serial number, hop over to Miller's website and run it through their search engine in their Manuals and downloads section. Usually only the operators manual, but sometimes that include wiring diagrams and parts lists as well. Worth a look, IMO. I picked up a Acklands...
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    Tips/Techniques Making the Square Drive hole in a custom socket.

    Had a fella that was supposedly working for me, who was grossly way more experienced a welder than I, and he filled me in on a couple details. The main one, was, "The job isn't finished until it has a coat of Black Tremclad on it!", followed rapidly, by "You can hide a lot of sins under a coat...
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    Does Anyone Still Make The Real Swiss or German Multifix Tool Post? (not an offshore clone)

    My (not actual dislike, rather, preference) is to have a tool post that I do not need a wire EDM machine to make my own tool holders. Would I like to have a genuine Multi-Fix, hells yes, do I want to pay the price of admission....? Not so much...
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    Does Anyone Still Make The Real Swiss or German Multifix Tool Post? (not an offshore clone)

    Or maybe not. One of the well respected members on Popular Machinist Forum, bought and tried the Chinese clone, and tested it for repeatability, etc., and came away with the general attitude that one got more than one paid for, compared to price-to-value. Personally, I like the Tripan system...
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    New to me Ammco 7" Metal shaper

    Thread rift in action! LOL! Post us some pics when you drag yer new toy home, eh? Lots of guys over the years have said that you can make anything on a shaper except a living, but I have been in a shop in Edmonton that was ABSOLUTELY pristine and clean, about a dozen CNC machines running in a...
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    Power hacksaw

    Nice! If you need some honest to god silver solder to patch anything up, talk to me, I can fix ya up! I have a tube of (IIRC) 60% silver content, flux coated rods, that my neighbor in Cold Lake could not sell at a Garage Sale, for $5. He gave it to me after the sale... :) Set up a shut off...
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