2022

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  1: Art's Plancator
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  2: Art's Plancator
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  3: Art's Plancator
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  4: Tool holder stand - with milled tapered holes for Kwik-switch 200. Nylon from a cutting board.
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  5: Tool holder stand - with milled tapered holes for Kwik-switch 200. Nylon from a cutting board.
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  6: Chip catcher for band saw -
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  7: New bench frame welded up
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  8: I welded part of the plate back on - mistake - impossible to prevent warping. Should have just made the edge super straight and mounted side-by-side.
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  9: 2022-03-24_15-33-05.jpg
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  10: This is a plumers compression ring cutter that is no longer available - Lots of machining steps.
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  11: This is a plumers compression ring cutter that is no longer available - Lots of machining steps.
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  12: Cheap mag base drill overhaul - the counter sinks dimpled the ways - caused it to bind. Ground out the dimples and stoned the ways flat. Chinese equipment should be thought of as a DIY kit.
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  13: Angle grinder - Changed grease - got noisy.
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  14: Sold this - worked well but requires a cell phone that will become obsolete. Will replace with a stand alone unit.
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  15: Sold this - worked well but requires a cell phone that will become obsolete. Will replace with a stand alone unit.
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  16: Sold this - worked well but requires a cell phone that will become obsolete. Will replace with a stand alone unit.
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  17: Milling sphere to mate with button head screws for bench feet.
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  18: Milling sphere to mate with button head screws for bench feet.
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  19: Decking vice anvil..
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  20: Bench feet - button head with nut locktited on for adjustment.
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  21: Bench feet - button head with nut locktited on for adjustment.
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  22: Meger tooling that was to come with the EMCO lathe I decided not to get
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  23: Meger tooling that was to come with the EMCO lathe I decided not to get
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  24: Meger tooling that was to come with the EMCO lathe I decided not to get
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  25: Meger tooling that was to come with the EMCO lathe I decided not to get
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  26: Meger tooling that was to come with the EMCO lathe I decided not to get
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  27: Meger tooling that was to come with the EMCO lathe I decided not to get
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  28: 2022-04-14_21-48-06.jpg
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  29: Working on installing 20 Ton press into the bench.
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  30: Mini-Din rail to install accordian gaurding for the mill
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  31: 20 Ton Press install finished.
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  32: Bench upgrade is finished.. Shelf height matches saw height.. Saw fits under the overhang.. Under bench lighting on floor and shelf.
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  33: Replacement of the pnematic drain valve - GSP threads made this a pain - probably should have re-threaded it.. Here you can see all the fittings - needs to have a prefilter with settling or it won't last long at all.
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  34: Replacement of the pnematic drain valve - GSP threads made this a pain - probably should have re-threaded it.. BSP needs a gasket to seal -
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  35: Replacement of the pnematic drain valve This is the old one - worked for years, but impossible to maintain.
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  36: Replacement of the pnematic drain valve - Intalled - The settling bowl and filter keeps the valve working.
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  37: I think I like this Chamfering tool - fine adjustment in mm- replaceable carbide cutter.
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  38: Updated - had to sew more accordian on the right side - chips can fall on a prox-detector and cause a crash on homing. Will add an elastic bit to help retract so it dosen't get bunched up. Not easy to clean- - but keeps the ways clean.
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  39: Example of HDR messing up - double image.
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  40: Testing the cut depth
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  41: Broken straight edges
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  42: Broken straight edges
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  43: cutting
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  44: 2022-05-03_18-17-28.jpg
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  45: LinuxCNC running a ruller engrave.
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  46: Saw modifications: Chip catcher Drilled plate for holding small things Pressure gauge to cut consistantly (should be flow meter?)
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  47: torque screw drivers are the deal..
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  48: Inked with solid stick.
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  49: Used for inking ruler.
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  50: Deckel clone - U2 grinder
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  51: Deckel clone - U2 grinder Tiny way slide - a bit wonky
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  52: Deckel clone - U2 grinder The knob on the left grips on threads - I put in a bit of brass rod. The gib falls out if changing heads - put a bit of RTV to see if it will stay in place.
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  53: Deckel clone - U2 grinder If you look at the bottom where the blue and metal meet - they put in a helicoil - and poped out where is shouldn't be..
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  54: The never ending nightmare of a compressed air system.
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  55: The never ending nightmare of a compressed air system.
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  56: water drain goes to filter so the drain valve doesn't get plugged..
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  57: 2022-05-15_03-43-59.jpg
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  58: Part of U2-deckel style grinder
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  59: Books I've read
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  60: I made a wheel tool for the D-bit Deckel style grinder.
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  61: Open tubes of RTV(silicone caulk) won't plug up if stored with a desicant (blue stuff on the bottom).
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  62: Modifying D-bit - Deckel style grinder.. Vaccum is manditory - lots of open parts that get coated in grit.. Need to clean befor moving and adjustment.
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  63: 1/2" loc-line for gooseneck light and vacuum.
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  64: Making loc-line attachment for lamp
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  65: Making loc-line attachment for lamp
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  66: Computer case with SLOW and quite fan.
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  67: milimess 1um with release
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  68: mm engraved and inked - inking takes multiple coats of ink-stick.
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  69: Pair of holes on the front edge were for pins. Dates back when they used iron surface plates and there was a ground front edge that the pins could align to.
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  70: Very strange infection/bruise ??
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  71: Lots of joints in Deckle style SO D-bit grinders.
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  72: Mitutoyo indicator - missing screw.
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  73: Mitutoyo indicator - Plastic lens? Cracked in two places..
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  74: Restoring Mahr bench mic with Supramess Original state
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  75: Restoring Mahr bench mic with Supramess Touch of rust
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  76: Restoring Mahr bench mic with Supramess Supramess - sort of the ultimate in mechanical indicators.
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  77: Restoring Mahr bench mic with Supramess Stripping the casting let me see shaped snugs. This was well made - no short cuts.
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  78: Restoring Mahr bench mic with Supramess Didn't have a 3mm wrench - made some snugs to free some small frozen parts - pliers would have ruined everything.
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  79: Restoring Mahr bench mic with Supramess, This retractor suprized me with a sping. The anvil fits with a taper.
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  80: Restoring Mahr bench mic with Supramess Disassembly of the thimble - had to clean a bit of rust in the locking system. Needed cleaning.
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  81: Restoring Mahr bench mic with Supramess After spending some quality time on my hands and knees - I started working with a tray - the pad helps keep things from bouncing. A perfect tray would have curled over edges so to trap anything moving horizontaly.
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  82: Restoring Mahr bench mic with Supramess. The retractor needed a touch of lapping - really happy I got a set of expanding as part of a $20 lot of tools off ebay.
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  83: Restoring Mahr bench mic with Supramess Using some spindle oil for the indicator shaft.
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  84: Restoring Mahr bench mic with Supramess Hammared pewter Matches perfectly.
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  85: Restoring Mahr bench mic with Supramess Finished and testing with Russian set of .990 - 1 gauge blocks. Just waiting for the gold to fill in the etching.
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  86: Moon nut?
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  87: Stoning showed what needed to get fixed.
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  88: What is the name of the outer driver?
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  89: Set up to grind a tool to disassemble the micrometer thimbol
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  90: Vacuum pump maintenance. Cleaning the gasket (old jet altimeter to measure pressure. )
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  91: Vacuum pump maintenance. Ready to reassemble.
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  92: Level - Vial holder Using carbide - barly long engough
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  93: Level - Vial holder Using carbide - barly long engough
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  94: Level - Vial holder Finished program
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  95: Vacuum pump maintenance. Changing oil
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  96: Vacuum pump maintenance. Vacuum drying filimnent for 3d-printer
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  97: Level - Vial holder printed version Printing on glass (a mirror tile - cheap!) with PVA for nylon.
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  98: Level - Vial holder printed version Finished print
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  99: Level - Vial holder printed version Deburred..
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  100: Level - Vial holder Fits fine
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  101: Level - Vial holder Cutting metal version
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  102: Level - Vial holder With vial
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  103: Level - Vial holder Metal version is better..
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  104: Level - Vial holder OpenSCAD - very simple to design with for someone that thinks like I do. Notice the cylinder is tapered.
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  105: Level - Vial holder Gcode helical path produced by FreeCAD.
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  106: Finished bit to make vial holders
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  107: Micrometer head Finally got it apart far enough to really clean it. bottom - From left to right: main shaft which is held by Threaded shaft a strange sping washer Nut that needs a fork drive screwdriver
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  108: Micrometer head One of the snugs I made to work on this.
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  109: Power supply needs fixing
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  110: Cutting bezels for the levels.
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  111: 2022-06-17_17-13-52.jpg
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  112: Mistery object - found in a batch of lapping equipment.
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  113: Mistery object - found in a batch of lapping equipment.
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  114: One of the two identical precision ways Material is supposed to be temperature stable.
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  115: Gound the feet off - will weld in some braces and use it on edge for a surface plate stand.
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  116: Braces in - cut some filler strips.
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  117: Cut a plywood top. Put some glue on filler stips - placed the top on. Filler strips locate the top to the stand.
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  118: Cut a yoga mat. Just need to put the surface-plate on top.
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  119: Measuring the space I will have for LiFePo4 batteries - changing out from lead-acid will upgrade the UPS
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  120: Tim's LiFePo4 kludge.
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  121: New plate on the stand.
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  122: UV-gel fingernail polish to color code tools. Takes 90sec to cure. The Cheap hand-light box is fancy - detects motion to turn it on..
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  123: Pin gauges arrived from China - missing sizes - has sizes that don't belong..
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  124: Pin gauges arrived from China - missing sizes - has sizes that don't belong..
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  125: UV-gel fingernail polish to color code tools Here I have 10mm - 12mm and 19mm
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  126: Portable culling lube. Tire valve to pressurize. Needle valve to control flow. The filter housing just needed a tube - has a red depressurizing button. Fine copper tube to deliver the drip.
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  127: Caliper repair. Cutting fluid - now reads over 60" and won't update.
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  128: Caliper repair Cleaned with flux remover.
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  129: Caliper repair everything Blown off with clean dry shop air.
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  130: Caliper repair Test -- Cheap but appears good to 10um.
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  131: What is missing in descriptions is that the twists HAVE to be in opposite directions. Bell crank not needed? Why is the shaft so huge? I should make a mirror with LASER pointer version.. Hard part - calibrating..
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  132: Down cut carbide router bit.
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  133: making shelf skates
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  134: DIY Spring steel screwdiver
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  135: DIY Spring steel screwdiver
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  136: Mill table surface - closeup The shiny part is true - but there is black stuff in the bottom of the pits that won't clean out.
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  137: 3D print magnet holder
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  138: 3D print magnet holder Printing on mirror tile (Cheap glass)..
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  139: Scrap gold - sold off instead of messing with chemicals.
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  140: UPS project - LiFePo4 battery balancers - waiting for the rest to arrive.
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  141: Cutting dead tree down Gash to aim
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  142: Cutting dead tree down Ready to fall
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  143: Cutting dead tree down Timber!
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  144: Cutting dead tree down Pretty good sized job for an old fart.
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  145: Cutting dead tree down Ran out of steam..
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  146: Setuo for drillin off-center hole in end of rod.
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  147: Bad drill bit - brand new - 7.5mm but cuts at over 8mm.
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  148: Vanessa found a Durian sign
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  149: fly cutting soon to be lapping machine table. Unsupported corner ended up with just a hint of chatter marks.
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  150: fly cutting soon to be lapping machine table. Figguring out how to hold the part is alway the hardest bit.
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  151: fly cutting - came out well
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  152: Testing Ph of degreasers
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  153: lapping with polyester film on top of a grooved lapping plate.
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  154: retro-fitting LiFePo4 batteries into my UPS
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  155: This came new out by 0.5 degrees. Fly cut true.
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  156: This came new out by 0.5 degrees. Fly cut true.
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  157: retro-fitting LiFePo4 batteries into my UPS
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  158: retro-fitting LiFePo4 batteries into my UPS
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  159: Drilling rubber corks with brass tube. Makes pouring cream in my coffee Much more controlable.
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  160: Drilling rubber corks with brass tube. Makes pouring cream in my coffee Much more controlable.
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  161: This was $40 + $15 on ebay. Turns out is is some kind of reference - calibration sticker on the inside. Taft-Peirce MFG Co. - Company disloved in 1995 - some products moved to Suburban tool. Supposed to be precision. Rust damage..
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  162: LiFePO4 conversion - lots of room left in battery cabinet.
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  163: LiFePO4 conversion. Made brass strips to clamp the terminals. Messy wiring.
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  164: 2022-09-16_23-31-55.jpg
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  165: Micrometer head from the 80s - hand laid out traces - looks like this board often shorted on the metal - needed thicker stand-offs. Early optical encoder - not repairable without spending a days redesigning.
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  166: Boring bars gifted from Art - cleaned and oiled.
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  167: Plenty of Lathe cutters - for a guy still without a lathe.. Some gifted from art.
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  168: Dome spring was stuck in the in position - a bit of bending fixed it up.
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  169: This peg holds the weight bar for doing squats - it can get tangled up on the bottom side if you are not careful - leading to bad things happening.
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  170: Cut the bottom edge off.
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  171: Welded a bit on so if lifting from below it will push out to clear the end.
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  172: Surface roughness tester Surftest 211 Disassembled Batteries are toast Machining Schmoo got inside. Don't recommend Mitutoyo - they go after people sharing manuals, no parts support. There are better people to work with.
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  173: Surface roughness tester Surftest 211 Disassembled Not the greatest design for the time - 4PCBs too many connectors. No need for two uP. All it needs to do is preamp, motor voltage, A/D UI. Don't recommend Mitutoyo - they go after people sharing manuals, no parts support on older units.
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  174: Chinese ER collets - not EDM - full of burs - needs hand finishing work. I found a old rusty feeler gage blade - roughened up the edge on the grinder - worked pretty well to file out some burs.
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  175: Lapping machine project - motor mount plate, and skid plate.
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  176: lapping project Profiling edge
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  177: lapping project motor bracket welded. Need lathe to make pulleys.
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  178: lapping project Cheap motor speed control. Connector reverses - reversing direction.
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  179: B&S LVDT head - need docs
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  180: B&S LVDT head - need docs
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  181: My standard for 220V
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  182: Unpaking 4-jawK72 chuck. Full of dirt and grit
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  183: Unpaking 4-jawK72 chuck. Full of dirt and grit
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  184: Pulling the jaw assemblies out for cleaning. After they are cleaned - you don't need a puller.
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  185: Microkator
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  186: Microkator - tests OK
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  187: Pawnshop find The big one is strange - seems metric - 18mm and 29.5mm Both for $1.
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  188: Restored bore gauge
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  189: B&S gauge amp 1025 Bad flex circuit strip - Will install tact switches
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  190: B&S gauge amp 1025 Header connector for keyboard rows and columns
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  191: Printing dill trays with PETG-G
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  192: Drill-bit trays Blue is for metric
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  193: Drill-bit trays Blue is for metric
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  194: Drill-bit trays Blue is for metric
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  195: Angle setup blocks
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  196: Cutting lensplates for old Millimess micrometers. The down-cut bit makes this work great.
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  197: I now have 4 fully restored Millimess - I also have a Supramess - and another one on it's way.
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  198: B&S 1025 thought the switch part was bad - not the type you can solder to - so replaced with tact switches. Still not right.
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  199: B&S 1025 This is the new battery- trim-taped to the bottom. The old system had clips that were bent - might have shorted out the circuit board?
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  200: Milling a pair of blocks for calibrating 3d printer.
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  201: blocks - left and right - syncronize the pair of steppers that control Z. Real important that the bar is parrelle to the build plate for the first layer.
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  202: Starrett height gage before restore
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  203: Starrett height gade disassembeled
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  204: Little Schmoo dispensors.
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  205: Mitutoyo - Hiator-II - Supramess in disguise.- New lens..
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  206: Disassembeled Bore gage Standard #3
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  207: Acetone bottle melted needle - Now using the one Art gave me..
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  208: Restored Starrett adjustable parallels. Grobet #4 file work on bent corners.
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  209: Need to make indicator holder so I can test squareness.
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  210: lots of schmoo!
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  211: Calibrating the veniers
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  212: drilling 1.4mm hole with peck cycle
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  213: Made apin wrench to disassemble Marh snap gauge.
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  214: 2022-10-27_16-31-19.jpg
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  215: Full disassembly
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  216: Rightangle gauge idea
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  217: 2022-10-29_12-37-34.jpg
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  218: 2022-10-30_18-08-15.jpg
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  219: 2022-10-30_18-08-24.jpg
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  220: 2022-10-30_18-08-54.jpg
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  221: 2022-10-30_18-10-07.jpg
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  222: 2022-11-01_14-26-41.jpg
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  223: 2022-11-01_14-33-13.jpg
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  224: 2022-11-01_14-33-24.jpg
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  225: Lathe arrived with a broken bottom skid.
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  226: Broke clean through on this side.
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  227: Hard to see - had to put a furnature dolly on the end - what a mess.
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  228: The steep hill went fine - if it started to roll - I just set it down. Getting in the door took an hour - the ground is so dry - there was a 13mm jump that the dolly would stick on..
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  229: Crate not in great shape.
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  230: Lots of cleaning work.
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  231: Saved the crate box for now.
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  232: Lots to unpack and assemble.
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  233: Just a rough cast dimple - so I made a good surface... To be continued..
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  234: Dipped a magnet in the oil tank of the new lathe. Full of metal shavings.
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  235: Cleaned the 3-jaw that came with the lathe- had a full table-spoon of sand and metal grit.
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  236: Cleaned the 3-jaw that came with the lathe- had a full table-spoon of sand and metal grit.
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  238: 2022-11-05_14-13-42.jpg
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  239: New Precision Mathews lathe PM-1236T-1 You can see the grit sitting in the oil grove at the top of the headstock.
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  240: New Precision Mathews lathe PM-1236T-1
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  241: New Precision Mathews lathe PM-1236T-1 Rigged up my parts cleaning tank to flush out the headstock - new filter.
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  242: New Precision Mathews lathe PM-1236T-1 Set -up to drain back to the parts cleaner
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  243: New Precision Mathews lathe PM-1236T-1 Flushing the grit out.
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  244: New Precision Mathews lathe PM-1236T-1
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  245: New Precision Mathews lathe PM-1236T-1 You can see shinny metal flakes at the bottom - already flushe some.
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  246: Clean up finished on this end. The copper is for draining oil next time.
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  247: Gears full of grit - packed with wax - paint on gears - long clean up.
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  248: This hole was for sliding a tube in to fill the drip gallery with oil - not a straight shot.
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  249: Ground it out so it has a chance to work.
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  250: notice the white paint on the gears..
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  251: Possible design for checking perpendicularity.
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  252: Comes complete with free metal shavings
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  253: 2022-11-08_14-19-37.jpg
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  254: Scraped dovetails? or just decoration?
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  255: Gib direction
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  256: More to clean.
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  257: Packed with grease mixed with metal bits..
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  258: I think I will add a jack screw to the block on the right.
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  259: Every thing is full of grit.
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  260: Picking up the lathe. The motor lift helps with balencing.
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  261: Getting closer. Put loctite 'make-a-gasket' on top of the stands and under the lathe.
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  262: Not cleaned up.. will have to mill it.
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  263: Used my Russian straight edge.
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  264: Cleaning up the top of the tailstock. Indicated true with the plunger.
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  265: Cleaned up the rough edge (3 pictures back).
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  266: This is the 10" face-plate they sent me! Foundry sand surface. You have to be kidding? I would expect better out of China.
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  267: Rough adjust tail stock -- not working right.
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  268: Milled a flat for the adjusters to push on - and cleaned up the cross-surfaces.
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  269: hanging the scale mount - jack screws to set angles.
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  270: hanging the scale mount - jack screws to set angles.
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  271: Brass tipped grub scews for tail-stock. You can also see the slot I cut in the brass shaft.
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  272: Art sent me this on the bench micrometer I restored.
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  273: Art says he is going to send this to me - can't wait!
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  274: Art says he is going to send this to me - can't wait!
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  275: Art says he is going to send this to me - can't wait!
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  276: Gap in carriage clamp when fully tightened.
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  277: Adaptive milling block to mount lathe scale.
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  278: Top of carriage level -- but ..
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  279: does not match ways.
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  280: disassembling to clean
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  281: Bottom of lathe sadle - came full of grit.
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  282: Grit on oilers
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  283: Inking shows really poor contact.
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  284: Replacement faceplate has paint on the taper.
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  285: Under paint - taper did not clean up.
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  286: lining up saddle
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  287: Just touching the flat - it was machined - but they painted over it? Where the follower rest mounts. The red sticking out from underneath is some shim stock.
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  288: Just touching the flat - it was machined - but they painted over it? Where the follower rest mounts.
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  289: Two unmachined flats - machining them for the DRO mount.
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  290: MT2 - ER32 collet in my drill press - the tang is to short to extract the normal way - have to use wedges. -- The bearings in this old thing are not terrible - about 5 mills of runout at one foot off of a test bar. -- The drill quality is better and no more burrs on drill-bits.
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  291: Renzetti Snug
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  292: Drilled and tapped to mount DRO
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  293: Wall tear out - and reroute vent pipe.
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  294: milling counter bore - spacer plate
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  295: spacer plate profiled
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  296: spacer plate deburred.
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  297: Brand new ER32 collet - comes complete with burrs.
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  298: 2022-12-01_13-18-13.jpg
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  299: Had to disassemble the head and even the connector to fix the problem with the strain relief.
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  300: What $12 got me from the pawn shop
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  301: IPPC International plant protection convention TW-BAPHIQ Bureau of Animal and Plant Health Inspection and Quarantine I was hoping for the name of the lathe company.
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  302: binary comment
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  303: Welding project
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  304: With the power outage - took out a zigby switch - a computer fan - and the UPS..
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  305: No end of details to take care of.
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  306: Re did drain line that was falling apart. Made an insert for the medicine cabinet. Added an outlet.
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  307: 2022-12-08_20-11-14.jpg
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  308: With the power outage - took out a zigby switch - a computer fan - and the UPS..
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  309: Hermaphradite calapers are handy for lay out. The middle one has a clever fine adjust.
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  310: Vessel bits - see next - translated.
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  311: Yandex translation
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  312: Google translation
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  313: Burrs in brand-new ER40 collet
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  314: First lathe job
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  315: Thru-tang screwdriver - older - tough.
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  316: 2022-12-22_23-31-41.jpg
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  317: 2022-12-25_16-10-31.jpg
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  318: Striping ??
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  319: Pressol Oiler No 05 114 Made in the USA - parts from West Germany Notice that there is no rolled seam at the bottom - such seams allwaysl eventually leak and make nasty messes.
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  320: Pressol Oiler No 05 114 Made in the USA - parts from West Germany
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  321: trip through ultrasonic cleaner took off paint. Put in an o-ring seal - polished nozzle..
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  322: Flooring and medicine cabinet in
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  323: cabinets in -- tight fit.
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  324: Multifix arrived
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  325: MT3-ER32 has too long of taper - need to cut off 3mm.

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