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    draw bolt rod

    A piece of heavy web angle iron is usefull when trying to weld pipe or bar in perfect alignmen. Vise grip both pieces into the crotch solidly and weld a short spot, rotate a smidge and weld again
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    Fairbank Morse Lathe $150 Maple Ridge

    I didnt want to "spoil" the boss here....so i fixed her old one last week....after avoiding it for 8 months.
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    ER40 collet chuck

    I have wondered this before and your post I have wondered this before while reading other threading pages that if it isnt simply a gear engagement setting that produces the small differences in cut threads. Even a slight difference in gear to gear meshing should make the change in tool speed...
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    Rotary table, $150, Smithville, ON

    Those pallet planks will be 3.5" wide so can be used as a fairly close scaling item.
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    Whelp, there goes the neighborhood.

    Carefull Don, by the time you get all those rust holes filled back up with good steel you wont be allowed much payload in the box!!!
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    Tips/Techniques Looking for easy removable thread locker

    This is my suggestion also I have used Copper-coat on lots of finger tight air fittings in a pinch on trucks.
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    Remington auction

    I think most of the big production machines that werent totaly wore out went to Ruger in the original disbursement. Remington itself was only just an ammo producer for the last years. Remingtons demise started when it ws acquired by a financial conglomerate that let it be run into the...
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    4 x 6 Bandsaw Table

    Thats one project I regret not doing years ago for my bandsaw.
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    Dabblings

    Chicken... some of that road looks real ugly....I sure dont miss those "pilot car, over dimensional 150,000 lb loads" on roads like those!!!
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    Compressor $600 Sylvan Lake, AB

    I agree 1000x I was standing outside our shop when the hot water tank my old man converted to a compressor reservoir let go ....as my neighbor said when he pulled the trigger on a plugged shotgun barrel "biggest damn bang I ever heard".
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