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    Tool How to drive taps

    Tap drill sizes when you get into M36 or 2” tap sizes are limited, more so when you’re working in the field like we are with limited supplies. Often my tap drill is a near as possible size in an annular cutter. I have some ideas of what I want, was just hoping there would be something off the...
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    Tool Gauge Blocks - Am I the only one with missing/extras

    I have a bunch of ‘stray’ blocks. Sometimes they get pulled from sets if they are out of calibration for the set they are in. They do slowly change size over time, so sometimes what may start out as a block in a master set gets downgraded to a shop set etc. One company I worked for had their...
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    Cutting oil of choice

    I’ve been using a mix of stuff, had some LPS Gold, I think it’s all gone now, have a bunch of rapid tap, used to have some of the old school ‘Cool Tool’ that I think had ingredients that were eventually banned. At current rate I still have enough for another 2-3 years, then I may have to...
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    Tool How to drive taps

    I have Lisle tap sockets good up to 1” taps, guess I need to hunt for larger 8 point sockets. Issue is manually cranking them, as often I’m doing multiples, as an example, today I’m tapping 18 1”NC holes from scratch. One or two is one thing, but 18 holes is another. At least these are on the...
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    Tool How to drive taps

    Hey guys, I get into a lot of tapping in larger sizes, 1-2”, sometimes bigger. Often this is field work, with limited space and resources. Is there any options out there, mechanical or hydraulic, for cranking and holding these taps? Just kicking around ideas right now, but need to do...
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    The undercutter

    I've been getting garlic from Ironman for a while, usually about 10 pounds a year. We store it in cardboard/paper in a cool storage room in our basement. Lost a few bulbs this year, but we moved and our storage area isn't the same conditions as the old house, hope to have that fixed for this year.
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    Shop Potential modification of Shop Crane for parallel feet

    If you use your original design, but add two more crosswise receiver tubes (going left to right so to speak) beside the first set, you could have your width adjustment vary a lot more, with much longer tubes to start with.
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    Just joined in Edmonton

    Hmmm. Sounds like you may have been military in the past…
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    Just joined in Edmonton

    Welcome! I’m out in Wainwright area, don’t get to post on here as often as I would like (or should), but pop in from time to time.
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    Hillbilly Scraping

    Actually what you are doing with the die grinder is quite close to what the process is for fitting larger plastic injection moulds. In the mould industry that would lilely get you within .001” or so for fit, which is close enough usually to keep plastic from flashing through the parting lines.
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