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    Show us your pups

    She's very quiet and gentle. The bookkeeper scares me more than the dog does
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    Big Box o' Air Tools - All or Nothing (SOLD AS OF April 21)

    I was in Calgary 2-3 weeks ago, it was a fairly short visit. Some genius put a set of train tracks intersecting a dead end street doing shunts. I have no immediate plans to go back there, but I think @CalgaryPT thats your next mission, move the train tracks out of town Good to see you around
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    Stuart’s big dumb lathe

    Older books can't be censored or rewritten no politics
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    Show us your pups

    My bookkeepers dog, Ellie. Swears she is a savage and threatens to send her after me to pay the bill So I got her a collar and tag that had her phone number with "accounts receivable" stamped on it :D
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    Tips/Techniques Cutting High Strength Steel Forging

    good luck again, no politics, but when the country of manufacture has no recourse for providing a poor product / that doesn't meet domestic quality control/certs/liability, it's hard for domestic companies to compete I think that's about as far as we can take this, forum wise, but it was...
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    Tips/Techniques Cutting High Strength Steel Forging

    True, I guess I forgot a minute we delved into test reports and certs, if an offshore company gives a cert, it's very different from a domestic company giving a cert Again, no politics, the discussion arose around steel quality compared to country of origin, and how other countries can fudge...
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    Stuart’s big dumb lathe

    Yep, I'm not a huge "safety" person per se, but watched a 2000 pound piece of glass get smashed because of poor rigging and the safety latch not able to close properly around the rigging
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    Tips/Techniques Cutting High Strength Steel Forging

    This will seem like it's out of left field but this forum should be used to that by now :D A very little bit of research turned up forged snap binders will generally bend, under abusive drivers. Cast, on the other hand, will simply break @Susquatch holds the opinion that...offshore....forged...
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