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    help making small hinges

    well done!
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    Question about casting bronze

    Best for casting imo, and that many other enthusiasts, is 873 silicon bronze. It has zero or close to zero zinc, and casts and machines well enough. No/low zinc is important as it boils off before the metal is at casting temps.....that is why brass is challenging to cast. The way to...
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    2x72 grinder discussion

    Dan, is this something you are designing? Interested to see what you come up with. There are so many feature-rich designs out there I'm not sure what I'd even want in one .... so I'm looking to you to make sense of it all for me :)
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    Netflix price increase at wrong time entirely

    As I recall this was about keeping the Cdn gov happy, not people avoiding paying subscription fees. The Cdn gov insists on controlling what you watch and they can't do that if you watch the US Netflix (which has different content than the Cdn netflix)
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    Steam engine patterns for casting

    Between print, burn out and cast, there are dozens of variables. More challenging than predicting the weather
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    Steam engine patterns for casting

    All you need is a microwave. Seriously. I posted a video link here somewhere of a guy doing CI on his balcony, and if watch and listen to him, he comes across as quite credible. Enough so that I'd give it a whirl if I needed to cast something in iron. Whether they are good enough for...
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    Steam engine patterns for casting

    catastrophic tactical error imo .... always go with "It's easier to beg forgiveness than ask permission". Be the caveman you were meant to be. :) agreed 3D print is a game changer for casting, almost a necessity in my mind given the time savings. Lost resin for small super detailed parts...
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    Tips/Techniques Printed worm drive rotary table

    great stuff! Thanks for posting it
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    Member buddies and end of life planning....

    yeah, I know, make a video, make a list ..... but who's going spend a month of Sundays carefully and in detail going through it to the point of understanding it? I don't know of anyone you could sit through a video of everything without being bored beyond wakefulness .... let alone people with...
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    Member buddies and end of life planning....

    There's are many guys here that would know what most everything is, but what goes with what? A big challenge and effort to figure that out. It'll be a huge schemnozzle, damn good thing that I'll be dead :D
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