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  1. Stuart Samuel

    Tool Annular Cutter Accuracy

    When I saw this thread this morning, my first thought was this book:
  2. Stuart Samuel

    Not a fun weekend....

    I enjoy all sorts of technical processes, but I have to admit, my favourites are the ones that are all 'feel'.
  3. Stuart Samuel

    New to me colchester lathe

    Chloride contamination is a real accelerator or corrosion in iron. Big issue for museum/archaeological artifacts. If the relative humidity is over ~25%, the chloride ions get to work.
  4. Stuart Samuel

    Tool How to drive taps

    I think I figured that, if I took the roof off my unit and lowered it in with a crane, it’d just barely fit, lengthwise (it was something like 40’).
  5. Stuart Samuel

    Tool How to drive taps

    The trick with photos of things like that is having any vague sense of scale. I remember looking at a listing for a lathe a few years ago, not really knowing what I was looking at, and then realizing there were stairs up to the platform you stand on that rides along with the carriage...
  6. Stuart Samuel

    CA-ON Cross border pick-up?

    Anyone have any suggestions for cross border pick-up services? Either something with branches across the USA (more useful for the forum broadly), or with a branch around Buffalo, NY. I’m looking at an eBay purchase and they offer free shipping in the US. Buffalo’s about a 2 hour drive for me...
  7. Stuart Samuel

    North America When You Can't Buy from McMaster-Carr

    We use Spaenaur for the bulk of our fasteners at work. Worth noting that at least for us (and we’re hardly a big client) they’re willing to send ‘samples’, along the lines of 1-6 pieces. I’ve used that several times when I needed, say, two metric set screws to repair something. I have to...
  8. Stuart Samuel

    Tool How to drive taps

    I’m such a boring person. I look at that and think ‘oh yeah, I keep meaning to read up on forming taps!’
  9. Stuart Samuel

    Welcome to Westwood Metalworks, What is he building in there?

    I'm not bothered by heights, so the few times we've had to do site work on lifts, its generally been me. Ended up in a what I'd call a spider lift (tank treads, plus six stabilizing arms) in a church (St. Paul's, on Bloor by Mount Pleasant) a few years ago, assessing some lights, and showing...
  10. Stuart Samuel

    Tool How to drive taps

    Yep. If anyone ends up with a tapping head, it’s worth at least having a look at the exploded diagram, if not disassembling and servicing it, just so you’re clear on what’s going on inside. When I started at my current job, they had two Tapmatic 50x heads, but I was told one ‘didn’t work’. A...
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