2024

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  1: Tool boxes should not be black. Lined with pig-mat.
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  2: Not right - but I don't think it is the problem?
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  3: I think I need better end blocks for this stack setter.
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  4: Gauge block holder stand Need long bars?
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  5: Tool post
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  6: Coffee beans
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  7: Cleaning up back side
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  8: 2024-01-08_16-44-08.jpg
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  9: Treasures arrived from Art Left to right: Swiss made Nicholson files, Setting ring,gauge-stack-fingers,plug gauge, carbide spot drills, parrallels, mag-B-block
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  10: Cast pot metal split in mag-B-Block
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  11: About 5um low..
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  12: Swiss made Nicholson files - cleaned up - rust removed - look like new.
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  13: Epoxied back together.. needs filler and paint.
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  14: Stupid defect - the allen on the ecentric clamp is not accessable.. Have to make new T-nuts..
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  15: Centered under the spindle.
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  16: box came in the mail
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  17: covered in saw dust - some rust on part of it. Chinese kit.
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  18: All cleaned up - probably should add a thrust bearing. The bottom plate can double as end stops on either side.
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  19: 9mm holes drilled
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  20: Counter bores milled out..
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  21: Chasing the DRO problem.
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  22: Ready to thread
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  23: Made a snug fitting thread.
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  24: Time to turn the tool post stock
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  25: Needed a large micrometer - The whole box was frozen! - big side job.. Not the right lube in these.
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  26: Acetone in the clamp hole helped
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  27: Alluminum Snug protects the spindle
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  28: Alluminum Snug protects the spindle
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  29: Next cut now that I have a micrometer working.
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  30: Coffee beans
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  31: Cutting the 45°
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  32: Cheap toy micrometer - need to fix the anvil faces.
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  33: 2024-02-02_17-43-05.jpg
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  34: Ebay find! Very good condition - carbide anvils.
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  35: Could be I have some kind of addition for micrometers.
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  36: More micrometers
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  37: The left dial reads in kGf (black numbers) Right reads 1mm = 1 BR unit?
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  38: Instructions
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  39: Hadness tester
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  40: What is a BR unit?
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  41: Lots of material to remove to get to 25mm
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  42: Ebay find - I don't think it was ever used. 1/4" endmill holder.
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  43: Turning the solid tool post
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  44: Finished - deburred
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  45: 2024-02-10_23-05-08.jpg
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  46: Part number of damaged scale
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  47: Inked the cross-slide dovetails
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  48: Balanced the 4- jaw (wheel weights!)
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  49: The idea is to turn the B&S#9 into A MT3 .. Should work.
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  50: Looks like a 60° tapper - hard to confirm.
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  51: "2059 Kwick-Switch patent No. 2719722 Universal Eng. Co." Did a brazing repair on the nut.
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  52: 2059 Kwick-Switch nut
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  53: 2059 Kwick-Switch nut Brazing repaired
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  54: 2059 Kwick-Switch nut Brazing repaired
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  56: 2024-02-23_22-26-05.jpg
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  57: Clinton lake hiking trail - lake in the far background
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  58: Indenter probe with alignment pins
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  59: 1"/200 mm ??? not sure what that means?
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  60: Cable control for the lathe.
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  61: Scales have to be indicated to eliminate sin error.
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  62: Ebay find - 1.25" step drills - to MT3 - mostly wanted the MT3 shanks to make tools out of..
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  63: Indicating in the lapping plate - bored out to 17mm
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  64: The mike stand helps a little - makes repeatable measures fairly easy.
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  65: This seems to be the biggest problem
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  66: The bottom is not smooth enough?
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  67: Lapping it in with a brass rod.
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  68: New shaft for the lapping machine.
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  69: New shaft for the lapping machine.
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  70: 2024-02-29_19-46-38.jpg
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  71: Verifying scale signals
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  72: filled in with JB-weld - strange expoy - sets very slow - very hard when set.
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  73: Press fit with loctite
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  74: Brass plug to protect the shaft.
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  75: Lapping machine
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  76: With aluminum plate. Need to make a slide to fit in the grove - with angled groves facing disk..
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  77: Optical parallel testing Micrometer anvil parallelism.
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  78: Optical parallel testing Micrometer anvil parallelism.
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  79: Optical parallel collection.
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  80: Ball bearing used to agitate Testor paint.
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  81: Thread gauges metric sizes - but strange pitch Before
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  82: Thread gauges metric sizes - but strange pitch after cleaning.
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  83: Turned the end - cross drilled - welded for trench spreader
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  84: welded plate on..
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  85: cross drilling setup
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  86: cross drilling setup
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  87: Strange ebay lot - Kwick-switch 200 tool holders ready to clean. Endmills all need grinding - but two were carbide..
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  88: Drill and tap guide - always square..
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  89: I like these wrenches - in metric - color code works. But - I seem to be able to see metric sizes most of the time.
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  90: plate to hold the lead-screw guard
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  91: installing the lead-screw guard
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  92: Making a light for the mill
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  93: Test bar for leveling the lathe
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  94: Everything is square on this end
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  95: Here you can see the four grub-screws of the tail stock. The side ones push it on the Lathe-X axis. The back ones lock it in place - don't adjust anything.
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  96: The flat on the top left was + .2mm
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  97: Another view of the grub-screw - ( I had replaced them with brass tipped ones and machined a flat on where they clamp.
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  98: To get this lined up true was not easy - I had a ground rod - indicated it true to the table. Used a level to tweak my improvised jacks.
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  99: The V-notch sits on the rod - I could indicate the difference between the two sides.
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  100: Just shaved off what I could. Once it was milled - I Indicated on a MT3-testbar - was still off a bit. Did the final tweak with a file across the two sides - protected the good side with adhesive aluminum tape. Then hit with a PGS.
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  101: Found several 4mm Allen wrenches.
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  102: The gray items are printed metal. The clear - printed plastic - for Nikolaus's controller business.
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  103: The steel as an impressive print - only $60
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  104: Close up - I'm going to polish a flat spot - see how it looks?
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  105: This is a second project of his - searching for a way to put hall sensors on old controllers.
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  106: printing controler parts
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  107: Coffee tree is blooming..
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  108: Trying to set lathe to cut a MT3 taper.. 123-block against the side of the compount against the MT2 end of a test bar. I think I can take a trial cut on some stock - and use the trig angle finder of the DRO
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  109: 2024-04-07_21-19-01.jpg
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  110: Trying to alingn the compound to a MT3 taper. Didn't work well.
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  111: Trying to alingn the compound to a MT3 taper. Didn't work well.
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  112: Eclipse via glasses filter
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  113: MT3 sketch
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  114: Too much ink - ended up failing
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  115: Cut off - made stub to hold welding a 4140 shaft..
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  116: If you do the math - it is obvious that this DRO is junk.
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  117: Making clamps to hold lathe shelf
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  118: Making clamps to hold lathe shelf
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  119: Making clamps to hold lathe shelf
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  120: Turning welded on 4140 to MT3
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  121: Ground 7mm radius
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  122: Misunderstood the drawing - think there is a radius
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  123: Radius tool worked..
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  124: Need to add metal to the tang. Have a MT3 to MT5 adaper on it for heat sink - as well as a copper block.
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  125: All is well that ends well - I now have a Kwik-Switch 200 with a MT3 shank.
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  126: Dropped my test indicator.. jamed up.
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  127: Just needed a tweak..
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  128: Kwik-Switch 200 with a MT3 shank
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  129: Next job - these are ER32 collet holders with a 32mm shank - need to turn them down to 30mm.
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  130: Turning for MT3 tool holder
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  131: Making rain drain trash seperator
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  132: This screen was too tight - too much water went out.
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  133: 2024-05-07_21-09-01.jpg
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  134: Installed
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  135: Welded up hex shaft need turning
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  136: Ended up OK
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  137: Remaking the hex shaft
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  138: Takes too much time to repair..
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  139: My old hex extender has a new life
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  140: Starting work on milling T-nuts
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  141: Never found the data sheet. Trying to fix my FM transmitter to filter out 400mzh noise..
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  143: 2024-07-13_20-27-12.jpg
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  144: Sunset below Clinton lake dam
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  145: High current connector for UPS. Needed datasheet - the shells are color coded.
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  146: Tripp-lite SU1500XL works well with LiFePO batteries (16 cells).
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  147: Used a tote box fro the batteries. Pain to wire up BCM
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  148: Wilkey water fall just past Clinton lake. The other day all the rock ledges were under water and the fall was just a ripple in the flow.
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  149: Wilkey water fall just past Clinton lake. Looking up river at the dam - just visible..
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  150: Norms looking at the Wakarusa.
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  151: 2024-07-26_16-06-33.jpg
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  152: 2024-07-26_16-32-46.jpg
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  153: NVDA Tesla M40
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  154: Looking back up towards Wilkey water fall
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  155: New stove elements have heat reducers - make boiling water a problem..
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  156: Assembled the frame for HAL
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  157: Finally got the name of the railroad I've been researching. Lawrence and Southwestern Railroad
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  159: 2024-09-17_19-57-59.jpg
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  160: 2024-10-11_17-51-46.jpg
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  162: 2024-10-11_17-52-05.jpg
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  163: 2024-10-14_18-22-22.jpg
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  164: pelicans at Clinton lake
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  165: liftoff
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  166: Lots of deer at Clinton lake
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  167: lots of pelicans west end of Clinton lake.
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  168: 2024-10-22_18-29-27.jpg
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  169: pelicans
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  170: pelican
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  171: Cordelia
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  172: New Mexico
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  173: Gorge Bridge NN
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  174: Gorge Bridge NN
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  175: Gorge Bridge NN
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  176: Gorge Bridge NN
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  177: Tool totes should NOT be black!
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  178: Coffee beans
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  179: I derived this once - similar problem for measureing radious of lenses.
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  180: Spot drilling special T-nut
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  181: Broke a 7/16-14 tap.. I finally figured out that good taps are HSS with PM - didn't realize that PM stood for powdered-metal..
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  182: Tapping Hot-rolled steel shouldn't be this hard? It was the tap - ALWAYS get HSS with PW taps.
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  183: 2024-12-22_23-33-25.jpg
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  184: Had to make a longer T-nut for this eccentric clamp. The original(black) interfered with the wrench.
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  185: 2024-12-25_12-25-37.jpg

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