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    Product Behind the scenes in Veritas Manufacturing and Quality Assurance

    If you don’t receive emails from Lee Valley, they recently produced a series of five short videos (1 to 2 minutes) covering their: Coordinate Measurement Machine. Deburring. Rapid Prototyping. Vibrating Polisher. Cosmetic Seconds. Link to Videos I found them interesting, especially their CMM...
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    Video- The Turbo Encabulator

    If you’ve never watched this, it’s a fantastic overview of a generator utilizing reluctance and capacitance:
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    Machine StevSmar's PM-833TV Mill and Stand

    Now that winter has arrived, I've started working on my Mill stand again in earnest. So I thought now would be a good time to post progress to date and then add updates. Hopefully by the end of this winter I'll have the Mill together and running in some manner….. I ordered the PM-835TV mill...
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    Shop Is it a good idea to combine a shop crane and pallet jack?

    Below is from a recent article in the New Zealand “Shed” magazine, where a contributor has made up an adaptor to allow their shop crane to be used with their pallet jack. Combining two “similar use” tools is interesting to me as a way of saving shop space and having the “best of both worlds”...
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    Tips/Techniques Workshop Organization- things that have made a difference for you

    I think I’m probably on major iteration 5+ of workshop organization and slowly I‘m coming to a consensus of “guiding principles” which makes sense for me. I’m interested in what others have found. In order of priority, my highest priority first: 1) Everything should have a permanent place. 2)...
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    Things you’re addicted to…

    I’m addicted to buying books, sometimes music, tools. But this latest addiction is a little different: I do like a nice flashlight, but that desire currently seems under control…
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    If you were to buy a rotary table again- would you change it’s size?

    Eventually… I’ll get a rotary table for my mill. I like the 8”, but thinking of 15 years from now I may not appreciate the +60lb weight of it… Today, I can’t imagine needing a rotary table bigger than 6” (probably even 4”) which has led to the question of this post: If you were to buy a rotary...
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    Crack in Air Compressor tank…

    Ever since I purchased my air compressor it’s had a slow leak, but since it was either under a bench or in a corner I never looked to see what the cause was, naively assuming it was just one of the fittings needed re-sealing… until today… It probably has only 100 to 200 hours of running spread...
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    Shop Lee Valley Manufacturing- shop tour

    I found this video interesting, it shows a lot of the machine tools which are used to make Lee Valley woodworking tools: (Not sure if this is the best spot for this post… If it isn’t, could a moderator move)
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    Marking out on mild steel with mill scale- good markers?

    What’s a good marker to use on steel with mill scale? For typical fabrication accuracy I have a soapstone pen, but the lines rub off easily. Sharpie pens are hard to see unless there’s lots of light. Dykem layout fluid with a scribed line is hard to see when I add cutting oil. I do love the...
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