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As to whether to go metric or freedom units on you measurement tools… get whatever the lathe is graduated in. It will mess with your head less only having to convert numbers once at the start. Using...

Where is the water so we may fish, oh messiah?

This is proving to be a really interesting exercise.

For the record I found a speed chart for my 9” in an old advertisement while around a mates...

My 9” is very late model, has roller bearings in the head, I have a number of 1200 ish in my head but that may not be correct, it doesn’t have a speed chart on it and I’ve never bothered to work it...

The Hercus tops out at around 1200ish from memory.
Im now in a deep deep deep rabbit hole….

And before you know it you’re shaving a yak as the north americanos would say

Interesting thread.

So I’m guilty of buying into the notion of rake vs machine size and headed towards DC and CCMT for my Hercus as my standard tools, they work ok and for the most part give a...

Whatever else you don’t oil make sure those always have oil, mine picked up the bush because I got a bit slack and created all manner of issues until I had the machine stripped and restored and...

Yeah that’ll be my rough enough for mining approach rearing itself again :U

Drum oilers aren’t designed for dispensing against restrictions, it will get very messy very quickly.. I’m not going to divulge how I came to know this:U

If you intend on coating it again, put the cash into your trailer, to have the mates trailer re coated will require it to be blasted to strip it prior to going into the acid tank.
A full galv...

Broadcast equipment is 75ohm transmission line and antenna impedance, not 50, so 46 is a bit shy of the mark maybe

Why do you need a vector analyser to adjust the driven element? (I’m assuming...

HSS is anything but cheap on this side of the pond.
I bought two pieces of 12mm square 75mm long M42 a few weeks ago and didn’t get enough change out of $100 to buy a coffee on the way home… granted...

I think you’re on the money. It’s most likely forward and reverse selection.

Just a note on the way that wiring is done, you may wish to alter how the E-Stop works so it is mains rated and works...

Damn.. that would have been more than a bit handy

Or just buy the cells and repack the battery. It’s nowhere near as hard as people claim it to be. If it’s old enough to have NiCad cells, no need to buy a spot welder, they can be soldered, scuff...

Last couple of blades I’ve put through my saw have been the cheapest carbon steel blades that General Tools had in stock, what I’ve come to learn is I get about the same life span, accuracy of cut...

$300 I’m guessing is for 3mm
I would normally be looking at 1.2 or 1.6 for a header tank that isn’t under pressure. Depends on how proficiently you are at welding thinner sheet
Water injection on...

Any of those will get the job done, if the 83 isn’t carrying too much of price penalty over the others use that, it’s a bit higher strength

Point of technicality..
Lithium batteries can’t self limit, if they are given kid in a lolly shop access to charge current they go into runaway and set things on fire. That’s why they must have...

If top hatting a panel I will usually either use countersunk solid rivets if I have access to set them or sealed end countersunk pops if I don’t. I have also used Sika panel adhesive.

I have also...

3 years out of a car battery? My Ute is still on its original from 2015.. The 2014 Focus my ex purchased from me still had its original battery when she traded it last year.

The battery...

Google the GE part numbers, looks like there’s possibly some NOS available ex US

It’s already broken, you can’t make it worse trying to fix it

A couple of top hat sections under the roof and on the end panels and it’ll be plenty strong enough.

1.6 is plenty thick enough for a canopy if you want to save a bit on material cost

I have an identical shifter, it’s by far my favourite of the handful I have.
Are you going to have a go at fixing it?

Material thickness adjustment moves the clamp away from the folding pivot which creates a radius.
Minimum r on a mid temper 5005 like H32/34 is 1-1.5 material at 3mm. I’d be very surprised if that...

The clamping head of that machine has quite a bit of adjustment.
There is a lever arm thing for material thickness, which is the same thing, thicker material needs to be clamped further away, and...

Bottles are bar or QR coded these days and scanned out and back in.. if the bottle you return is not the bottle you took questions arise.

I have a smaller torch like that (not that exact one, pretty sure mine is British) and it’s awesome for brazing smaller parts and fusion welding sheet metal, much nicer to use for those jobs than my...

Late to the party but some years ago I wound up stuck on a production rig in the Timor Sea (used to do break fix on the satellite comms) and didn’t have much to do with both the fault and annual...

As someone who makes a living from problem solving and maintaining (mostly problem solving) on industrial telemetry systems, I can appreciate the effort that went into your control system. I’m...

So the question is now… what are you making?

Yeah you won’t be knocking a tooth out for that..
The only clearance issue you might encounter is the top return, picture has no measurements for the middle horizontal section, that may possibly...

Should be possible if you get your order correct
Depending on how wide the strips are and the gauge of material you may be to overcome any relief issues by pulling a tooth and putting your material...

Lead Acid is about as safe as it gets, they can be safely charged in series. And have no requirement for charge management (although in large scale applications you may temperature compensate the...

How are the batteries wired in the pack? Series or parallel? I’d be inclined to use a charger that suits the voltage of the pack, be it 12 or 24. Yeah not technically ideal charging two batteries...

You could make that ‘snack tray’ Quite easily from sheet to suit whatever dimensions you need. Hammer form it over some MDF or form ply. Take you longer to route out and round over the form than it...

Posted in the wrong place and can’t delete the post

If you’re going to go to the trouble of setting the job up to single point something approximating the thread you may as well put the correct tool in it and cut the thread.

1971 mini
Pre Leyland square front with a 998 and 3 synchro pudding stirrer box if you’re a trainspotter
Quite possibly the rustiest example of one I could find.



Point of technicality.. In...

The machines are common but they have been and continue to be made by quite a number of different companies, each having their own variations on the theme. In practice it may prove near on...

They’re all new bits, the tube in tube is pretty much just a copy of what was already on one end just with bushes. I’ve put the hydraulics to one side because that made it nearly another metre...

I spent 4 months towing a load bank trailer along the most of the length of Dampier Bunbury pipeline in WA from Badgingarra to Karratha in 2008 load testing standby batteries at Alinta’s comms sites....

I used to buy stuff from C-Tool, forum rules prevent me from stating anything further about my thoughts on the business and selling practices this individual engages in.

My budget is whatever the...

A load that represents about 10% of its C10 discharge rating like a globe and a multimeter, and 15 minutes of your time.

Measure the voltage under load, a good battery will dip as the surface...

Like a stress fracture from manufacture causing a 3/4 UNF tap to break off and render a slug of ally that cost nearly $200 (and had about 30 hours of work in it) useless for the purpose which it was...

Rotator and stop plate parts for a rotisserie I’m repurposing

Anyone have an M20x1.5 conduit tap, preferably HSS that you don’t want/need any more?
Needs to be sharp to cut plastic

Price negotiable, postage will be required

Just to add a little more on the subject..

I bought a set of 4 because they were relatively inexpensive.

Two annoying things stood out after the first couple of uses.

They are too long
...