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    Worn nuts for mill leadscrew

    I'm not understanding the picture. Why is the material marbleized? You melted different materials & squeezed it into a female mold or something?
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    If you could own just one special vehicle what would it look like?

    I had a '69 Ghia when I was in college. I worked part time at a repair shop where one of the mechanics was a VW specialist. Somehow on a shoestring budget I managed to buy the parts for 2000cc rebuild & wangled some kind of carpentry labor exchange. Then I met a guy at school who was autobody...
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    4140 crankshaft modifications - propeller hub build

    I saw the head & meant to chat you up at the meetup but got side tracked (as usual). Seeing the wing tip ends easily encompassed in the video frame is freaking me out LOL. I had to look it up, 6.4m span - does that sound right? My RC sailplane is 4.0m LOL
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    Tool Coaxial indicator

    1) a centering tip is included in the kit 2) but to indicate, the driveshaft has to be rotating & the body held in position with the side rod, so not sure how that would occur being held in TS?
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    Tool Coaxial indicator

    Agreed. For this kind kind of conventional runout measurement I would set up a DTI on an arm & it does not matter where its mounted. I thought you meant holding the COAX in the HS chuck so the probe rotates about the TS arbor to quantify HS-TS coaxial alignment. Now the COAX is seeing gravity...
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    Tool Coaxial indicator

    I don't have my clone anymore to test, but I would evaluate if it is being affected unequally by gravity acting on the probe/mechanism. Its apparently a no-no with a DTI. Richard King? (scraping guy) speaks to this all the time. If I recall at best you could evaluate the vertical plane but not...
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    JCDammeyer's 42 projects

    Where does one go to get that done? (Interesting gift idea).
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    Difficult Picture upload... again

    Exactly. One would think taking a Snagit snapshot of his image should bear zero relationship to the original troublemaker image. And yet when I do that & upload my resultant image, I get the same black screen result when trying to view it. One would think that should not happen; could not...
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    Tool Coaxial indicator

    What I do quite often is take advantage of DRO. Put the DTI in with ball probe pointing down. Traverse to one size of hole to DTI contact, press DRO zero/null. Traverse to opposite side, click "1/2" or "center" whatever your function is. Usually this results in hole center determined within a...
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    Difficult Picture upload... again

    Same here. Isn't that weird. Even by screen grabbing the original problem image in Snagit, which saves as .jpg & uploading as attachment, it gives black screen. But if I upload one of my own normal images (lathe example) it opens OK.
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