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Adventures with cast iron - a wood plane.

Started by Anorak Bob, 20th Mar 2011 11:57 AM

11 Pages •: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ... 11

50g, adventures, beautiful, bob, bodied, bronze, camera, cast, copy, drawings, fat, forum, iron, keen, lightwood, mcbride, mentioned, norris, off.u, opportunity, peter, peters, photos, plane, previously, provided, rough, smoothing, versatile, wood

Replies: 157
Views: 110,241

Last Post By:: Last Post: 30th Jul 2023 11:53 AM; by Anorak Bob

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METALWORK GENERAL

American Machinists' handbook

Started by morrisman, 3rd Mar 2014 09:47 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

1500, 1945, american, amola, ampco, apparently, authors, bible, book, bronze, cheaper, colvin, edition, emergency, handbook, lifetime, machinists, metal, mike, pages, paper, picked, printed, reading, refer, refered, steel, substitute, thick, wartime

Replies: 21
Views: 14,641

Last Post By:: Last Post: 13th May 2021 12:17 PM; by gabriele

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METALWORK GENERAL

cast iron repair with maganese bronze?

Started by brendanh, 18th Jan 2015 01:03 PM

3 Pages •: 1 2 3

Replies: 36
Views: 16,381

Last Post By:: Last Post: 9th Aug 2019 10:02 PM; by hpa1

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WELDING

Bronze headstock bearings.

Started by flmath, 5th Apr 2015 11:37 AM

Replies: 1
Views: 3,688

Last Post By:: Last Post: 15th Jun 2015 12:14 PM; by janvanruth

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THE HERCUS AREA

Bronze Age Tools

Started by Robson Valley, 9th Dec 2014 05:47 PM

Replies: 0
Views: 3,296

Last Post By:: Last Post: 9th Dec 2014 05:47 PM; by Robson Valley

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New member new (old) lathe..

Started by johnandles, 10th May 2014 07:05 PM

313082313083313084313085, advise, appears, appreciated, bearing, bronze, bushes.is, cheers, drives, forum, freely, gap, hercus, john, lathe, lever, main, member, mine, pulleys, retainer, rotate, screws, shimming, spindle, split, supposed, tightened, told, wood

Replies: 7
Views: 8,917

Last Post By:: Last Post: 29th Aug 2014 10:58 AM; by allterrain50

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Welding of tool steel

Started by Trevvy, 2nd Jul 2014 09:34 AM

1/2, acme, bar, bars, boring, brazed, bronze, browsing, decided, flexable, guys, hard, impressed, multi, night, normal, purse, round, site, spent, steel, stock, threads, tip, tool, unit, use.i, welding

Replies: 5
Views: 6,118

Last Post By:: Last Post: 3rd Jul 2014 08:24 AM; by Vernonv

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METALWORK GENERAL

crossslide leadscrew nut

Started by leroy, 18th May 2014 03:53 PM

3 Pages •: 1 2 3

.43mm, 313973313974hi, 320, align, bottom, bronze, carriage, compound, crossslide, discovered, fixed, lathe, leadscrew, leroy, nut, play, question, remove, screw, slack, slide, thickness, tighten, tightened, tightly, wobbles

Replies: 35
Views: 17,896

Last Post By:: Last Post: 23rd May 2014 04:31 PM; by Gammaboy

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METALWORK GENERAL

TIG, silicon bronze and galvanised

Started by Legion, 23rd Apr 2014 03:12 PM

backyard, bronze, coating, combination, combo, contamination, difference, dura/supagal, furniture, galvanised, grinding, happily, hot-dipped, joining, light, no-one, pay, post-treat, references, rust, sheet, shs/rhs, silicon, spatter, structures, talking, tig, tungsten, vague, zincanneal

Replies: 8
Views: 8,038

Last Post By:: Last Post: 30th Apr 2014 12:39 AM; by China

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WELDING

Routing aluminium

Started by redx, 23rd Mar 2014 11:18 AM

308259, aluminium, bender, bolthole, bronze, bushes, centre, difference, fitted, found, groove, holes, pictured, plywood, project, redx, rout, router, routing, setup, similar, soft, strain, strengthening, suggest, trouble, wondering, wood, woodwork, youtube

Replies: 11
Views: 9,272

Last Post By:: Last Post: 23rd Apr 2014 11:57 PM; by redx

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METALWORK GENERAL

Sheet metal Roller bearings

Started by BobL, 22nd Mar 2014 09:48 AM

bearings, bronze, crack, ideas, metal, occasional, roller, rollers, seeking, set, sheet, short, suffice, suggestions, thinking

Replies: 9
Views: 6,269

Last Post By:: Last Post: 26th Mar 2014 09:28 AM; by BobL

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METALWORK GENERAL

Brass Handwheel?

Started by Timless Timber, 23rd Feb 2014 06:33 PM

3 Pages •: 1 2 3

advance, advice, assuming, block, brass, bronze, bucket, cast, figured, hand, handwheel, height, job, keen, lathe, locate, melt, metal, obtain, online, pic, readily, recall, roughly, shed, similar, solid, squat, thinking, wheel

Replies: 40
Views: 28,999

Last Post By:: Last Post: 9th Mar 2014 12:42 AM; by Timless Timber

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METALWORK GENERAL

Cheap bushing/bearing options for an 85mm shaft?

Started by gallegos, 27th Nov 2013 08:13 PM

$500, 85mm, bearing, bearings, bronze, bushes, bushing or bearing, cast, cheap, couple, foot, galling, hardened, hundred, iron, issue, local, lubricated, option, options, overseas, pretty, shaft, size, steel, stock, trouble, wear, welding, worried

Replies: 10
Views: 7,034

Last Post By:: Last Post: 29th Nov 2013 04:19 PM; by gallegos

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METALWORK GENERAL

Make a 5/8"tap

Started by morrisman, 25th Oct 2013 11:17 AM

3 Pages •: 1 2 3

12lengths, 5/8-8, 5/8tap, acme, alternative, base, bronze, cast, chronos, iron, make a 5 or 8tap, metal, mike, nuts, round, sells, silver, steel, stock, tap, thinking

Replies: 43
Views: 20,015

Last Post By:: Last Post: 25th Nov 2013 08:47 PM; by .RC.

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METALWORK GENERAL

Hard bronze brazing with LPG

Started by nearnexus, 14th Mar 2013 09:53 AM

4100, autotorch, braze, brazing, bronze, bullfinch, butane, cheers, finally, gas, hard, lpg, putting, rob, standard, video, youtube

Replies: 12
Views: 10,216

Last Post By:: Last Post: 21st Nov 2013 07:30 PM; by morrisman

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METALWORK GENERAL

Black acetal leadcrew nuts

Started by morrisman, 13th Nov 2013 07:33 PM

acetal, black, bronze, copolymer, economic, ewan, expensive, leadcrew, leadscrew, link, material, mike, nuts, opinion, option, suggest, viable

Replies: 1
Views: 4,754

Last Post By:: Last Post: 13th Nov 2013 09:01 PM; by Ueee

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METALWORK GENERAL

Cross slide bronze nut - grinding noise/issues

Started by Hornetb, 13th Aug 2013 10:39 AM

2 Pages •: 1 2

assembly, backlash, bronze, casting, cleaned, complex, compound, cross, flog, grinding, hole, ideas, intermittently, liberating, nice, noise or issues, nut, oil, pulled, rate, sand, screw, shaft, short, slide, sound, spindle, spot, thou, worn

Replies: 17
Views: 14,097

Last Post By:: Last Post: 16th Aug 2013 06:02 PM; by Anorak Bob

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THE HERCUS AREA

Shaft clearance

Started by YarrD, 2nd Aug 2013 08:45 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

0.02mm, 0.3, 0.32mm, 38mm, bearing, bearings, braze, bronze, build, clearance, david, dear, discernable, final, fit, oversize, plain, plan, pto, rattle, refurbishing, shaft, slightly, total, tractor, worn

Replies: 25
Views: 15,676

Last Post By:: Last Post: 8th Aug 2013 11:37 AM; by Steamwhisperer

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METALWORK GENERAL

Casting a Plane Body

Started by DSEL74, 4th Jul 2013 06:49 PM

body, broken, bronze, cast, casting, cheaper, cost, detail, disposed, expensive, fine, foundry, green, grit, lumps, mould, moulds, owner, pattern, pink, plane, planning, removed, require, resin, sand, skip, thrown, told, workers

Replies: 1
Views: 8,155

Last Post By:: Last Post: 5th Jul 2013 08:44 AM; by DSEL74

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THE FOUNDRY

Old tools and machinery in Colgne Cathedral

Started by jhovel, 19th Jun 2013 12:33 AM

$1923, 1951, ago, bolts, broke, bronze, cathedral, cathedrals, clapper, colgne, couple, crack, fallen, fracture, hinge, holding, machinery, machines, main, manage, metal, photo, photos, refitted, space, swing, tools, towers, visit, welding$

Replies: 4
Views: 5,060

Last Post By:: Last Post: 19th Jun 2013 11:21 AM; by Pete F

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METALWORK GENERAL

Making a foundry for a one off pour?

Started by simonl, 27th May 2013 08:03 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

achieve, beads, blank, blower, bronze, burner, casting, correct, difficult, foundry, gear, heat, making, material, melt, mould, obtain, people, phosphor, pot, pour, pouring, proper, questions, replacement, scrap, simple, temps, terms, time

Replies: 15
Views: 14,641

Last Post By:: Last Post: 30th May 2013 11:25 PM; by johnc

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Thrust on plain bearing lathes

Started by Ueee, 9th Apr 2013 10:35 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

adjustment, attached, bearing, bearings, boring, bronze, casting, crossed, describe, horrifying, lacking, lathes, line, mind, moment, nose, nuts, pair, pic, plain, pre-load, pressing, pushes, race, rear, spindle, tapered, thrust, times, wondering

Replies: 23
Views: 13,151

Last Post By:: Last Post: 12th Apr 2013 10:22 AM; by Ueee

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METALWORK GENERAL

Bronze welding cast iron

Started by morrisman, 22nd Mar 2013 10:59 PM

1933, bronze, cast, found, iron, vintage, welding

Replies: 2
Views: 3,113

Last Post By:: Last Post: 24th Mar 2013 07:06 AM; by aametalmaster

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METALWORK GENERAL

brass vs bronze

Started by YarrD, 8th Feb 2013 04:37 PM

assuming, brass, bronze, building, david, environment, filler, fitting, hue, matter, melting, oxidises, pinkish, point-wise, read, rod, salt, saltwater, worn, yacht

Replies: 9
Views: 6,091

Last Post By:: Last Post: 14th Feb 2013 03:27 PM; by Brobdingnagian

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METALWORK GENERAL

Machine Vise Refurbishment

Started by Anorak Bob, 5th Mar 2011 08:20 PM

4140, acme, avoid, bar, bed, boss, bought, bronze, chance, chances, cut, gib, grief, hercus, hole, inch, jaw, lathe, machine, machined, nick, nut, refurbishment, screw, sliding, steve, swivel, thread, vee, vise

Replies: 10
Views: 8,196

Last Post By:: Last Post: 29th Jan 2013 10:25 AM; by Abratool

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METALWORK GENERAL

HTH lathe

Started by morrisman, 25th Jan 2013 04:13 PM

Replies: 0
Views: 4,702

Last Post By:: Last Post: 25th Jan 2013 04:13 PM; by morrisman

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METALWORK GENERAL

Lever locking pliers - slide hammer adapter

Started by nearnexus, 7th Dec 2012 05:07 PM

7/16, adapter, anyones, blessing, bronze, bsf, cheers, design, difference, engineers, gadget, grit, hammer, handy, lever, locking, nice, photo, pliers, project, resign, rob, screw, sheeesh, simple, slide, suitable, taiwanese, teeth, thread

Replies: 2
Views: 5,989

Last Post By:: Last Post: 8th Dec 2012 08:00 AM; by nearnexus

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METALWORK GENERAL

Bronze Spindle Bearing Shells

Started by electrosteam, 15th Mar 2012 10:27 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

access, accurate, align, bearing, bend, borer, bronze, centres, channels, cylindrical, grinder, headstock, hold, horizontal, ideas, installing, john, lubrication, permissable, position, procedure, repeated, resolved, shell, shells, sheraton, south, spindle, split, successful

Replies: 28
Views: 17,865

Last Post By:: Last Post: 26th Oct 2012 09:39 PM; by electrosteam

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THE HERCUS AREA

Mailbox -bronze / Copper

Started by Bruisednail, 8th Aug 2012 08:29 AM

bricked, bronze, bung, cal, cheers, copper, mailbox, makes, modern, tips, type

Replies: 2
Views: 4,255

Last Post By:: Last Post: 9th Aug 2012 08:50 AM; by Bruisednail

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METALWORK GENERAL

Recommendations - Bronze Casting Services

Started by Morbius, 4th Aug 2012 11:33 AM

australian-based, bronze, cast, casting, craig, decent, jig, machining, minimal, recommend, recommendations, requires, service, services, smallish

Replies: 2
Views: 4,423

Last Post By:: Last Post: 8th Aug 2012 04:41 PM; by Morbius

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METALWORK GENERAL

Colchester parts... WTH??

Started by mike rolly, 29th Jul 2012 09:24 PM

$700.00, 148, 3/4-5tpi, acme, blokes, bronze, buy, colchester, cost, cross, door, feedback, gear, gents, gms, grabbed, local, machinery, market, nice, nut, parts, plan, post, screw, seller, slide, threads, worn, wth

Replies: 12
Views: 7,395

Last Post By:: Last Post: 2nd Aug 2012 10:09 AM; by azzrock

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METALWORK GENERAL

My "New" old machine vice

Started by Ueee, 14th Jul 2012 12:49 AM

1/4, acme, aluminumo, bind, blue, bolted, bronze, failed, file, grooves, hit, jaw, knowing, lathe, lift, machine, nut, opinion, original, pitch, pretty, previously, screw, soft, stage, start, steel, stop, underside, vice

Replies: 4
Views: 6,304

Last Post By:: Last Post: 16th Jul 2012 10:57 PM; by Ueee

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METALWORK GENERAL

ACME sizes on machines

Started by Michael G, 29th Jun 2012 09:17 PM

1/2, 1/2-8tpi, 5/8-8tpi, acme, bronze, comment, cut, day, finished, lathe, limit, list, machines, michael, mill, nut, nuts, pay, phosphor, projects, replace, require, screw, screws, serviceable, simon, single, sizes, taps, tooling

Replies: 6
Views: 5,982

Last Post By:: Last Post: 29th Jun 2012 10:37 PM; by morrisman

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METALWORK GENERAL

Boring a bronze casting, actually on size.

Started by Graziano, 20th Apr 2012 12:27 AM

2 Pages •: 1 2

accurately, aluminium, assuming, bearing, bore, boring, bronze, bushings, casting, castings, closeup, fit, free, ground, looked, measure, metal, oilers, plain, pleasant, preferred, set, shaft, size, spindle, start, steel, stepped, surprise, void

Replies: 25
Views: 13,822

Last Post By:: Last Post: 1st May 2012 07:56 PM; by Graziano

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METALWORK GENERAL

Melbourne Foundry Suppliers

Started by RayG, 9th Jul 2009 08:42 PM

4 Pages •: 1 2 3 4

$80, 1425, 3175, alloy, aluminium, bags, bronze, cast, cerachem, ceramic, crucible, crucibles, dandenong, fluxes, foundry, ingots, melbourne, metal, pint, pouring, powder, roll, scrap, sell, silicon, street, stuff, suppliers, tablets, temperature

Replies: 55
Views: 47,808

Last Post By:: Last Post: 28th Apr 2012 11:41 PM; by epineh

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THE FOUNDRY

Casting about for cast iron casting ideas

Started by Graziano, 22nd Mar 2012 10:03 PM

4 Pages •: 1 2 3 4

bit, bronze, camelbacks, carbide, cast, casting, coating, edge, flour, forming, future, guru, hard, ideas, iron, local, melts, moulds, nasty, par, perform, prevent, sack, silicon, straight, supposed, surface, tells, temperature, zirconium

Replies: 49
Views: 33,945

Last Post By:: Last Post: 1st Apr 2012 12:05 PM; by Graziano

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Dodgy cross feed nut

Started by morrisman, 19th Feb 2012 10:13 PM

10tpi, 7/16, acme, ago, brass, bronze, cross, dodgy, family, feed, fit, fitted, hercus, limited, looked, mike, months, nut, purchased, recall, screw, seller, short, sloppy, soft, steve, suspect, time, worn, yellow

Replies: 4
Views: 7,244

Last Post By:: Last Post: 20th Feb 2012 04:32 PM; by cba_melbourne

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THE HERCUS AREA

A good tutorial on bronze/oillite bushings/ bearings

Started by Ben Dono, 4th Feb 2012 04:37 PM

bearings, bello, ben, bronze, bronze or oillite, bronze/oillite, bushings, bushings or, essay, good, guys, hey, info, oillite, searching, surprised, tutorial, web, website

Replies: 2
Views: 4,439

Last Post By:: Last Post: 4th Feb 2012 06:57 PM; by Ben Dono

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METALWORK GENERAL

Antique Drummond hobby lathe

Started by morrisman, 8th Jan 2012 04:01 PM

accessories, age, antique, bearings, bronze, drummond, headstock, hobby, lathe, local, mike, model, page, pay, remarkable, runs, selling, shape, spindle, tapered, title, worthwhile

Replies: 7
Views: 8,673

Last Post By:: Last Post: 11th Jan 2012 11:31 AM; by Abratool

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METALWORK GENERAL

Self-lube bronze suppliers?

Started by Waldo, 7th Nov 2011 02:14 PM

19mm, 22mm, bronze, gday, melbourne, preferably, self-lube, selflube, suppliers

Replies: 3
Views: 4,408

Last Post By:: Last Post: 8th Nov 2011 09:11 PM; by Waldo

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METALWORK GENERAL

Casting Tools Part 1

Started by RayG, 3rd Nov 2011 01:37 PM

bronze, cast, casting, critical, crucible, crucibles, determined, dimensions, flat, furnace, gloves, handling, iron, lifting, liquid, metal, nice, plate, pour, pouring, radiation, shield, skimming, suggest, suit, time, titanium, tongs, tools, wearing

Replies: 2
Views: 11,001

Last Post By:: Last Post: 3rd Nov 2011 04:15 PM; by matthew_g

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THE FOUNDRY

Beginner metal-working question re. bending

Started by wsal, 28th Sep 2011 02:31 AM

2 Pages •: 1 2

achieve, advance, aluminium, annealing, beginner, bending, bent, brake, brass, bronze, cold, coloured, heat, heating, hot, knowing, malleable, metalworking, preferred, question, red, remember, required, silver/grey, steel, throwing, til, treatment, words, yellow

Replies: 25
Views: 18,330

Last Post By:: Last Post: 20th Oct 2011 12:00 AM; by wsal

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METALWORK GENERAL

Bronze bush. What type of bronze?

Started by simonl, 3rd Oct 2011 08:53 AM

2 Pages •: 1 2

advance, amount, basic, bearing, bronze, bush, cast, chinese, cost, equipment, excessive, factor, google, impregnated, iron, lathe, material, noisy, oil, operation, piece, revealed, reving, search, shafts, simon, slow, steel, type, wear

Replies: 23
Views: 14,311

Last Post By:: Last Post: 5th Oct 2011 09:40 PM; by simonl

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METALWORK GENERAL

broken tooth on back gear

Started by morrisman, 14th Jul 2011 05:17 PM

advice, bodge, broken, bronze, build, built, correct, cut, cutter, death, dial, familiar, fix, gear, indicator, larger, mig, mike, mount, plan, properly, query, re-cut, ready, repaired, sheraton, tafe, tooth, type, welder

Replies: 5
Views: 6,687

Last Post By:: Last Post: 18th Jul 2011 11:26 AM; by morrisman

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Metal casting furnace details

Started by Graziano, 9th Aug 2010 09:22 PM

1/2, 2/2, avoid, bonded, bronze, cast, caster, casting, caused, details, experienced, explosions, furnace, gas, hand, hot, inch, injury, load, melting, metal, moist, mould, porosity, preheating, resin, sand, scrap, silica, worth

Replies: 13
Views: 12,504

Last Post By:: Last Post: 14th Jun 2011 11:14 AM; by DSEL74

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Home Foundry Advice

Started by Greg Q, 6th May 2011 09:37 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

advice, alternative, alternatives, aluminium, bronze, burner, cast, casting, fellas, foundry, greg, guys, home, hot, immediately, iron, listing, local, melbourne, metal, oil, pieces, read, stink, suppliers, thread, understand, units, urge, waste

Replies: 27
Views: 18,784

Last Post By:: Last Post: 11th May 2011 09:07 PM; by Blu_Rock

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THE FOUNDRY

BSA Motor repair.

Started by Metalman, 12th Apr 2011 03:29 PM

2 Pages •: 1 2

40s, actual, alignment, appreciated, assembled, bike, bottom, bronze, bsa, bush, comments, conrod, correct, crankshaft, critical, cylinder, engine, friends, hand, late, machine, motor, opinions, owner, reamer, reaming, repair, replacing, single, taking

Replies: 21
Views: 13,553

Last Post By:: Last Post: 15th Apr 2011 09:58 PM; by nadroj

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METALWORK GENERAL

Douglas Shaper Modifications

Started by Anorak Bob, 5th Jan 2011 02:40 PM

3 Pages •: 1 2 3

1/2, 3/16, accommodate, base, blind, bob, bored, bronze, cap, centreline, collar, douglas, dowel, feed, fitting, handle, head, hole, imortant, installed, lead, lock, modifications, nut, rear, screw, secure, shaper, tight, tool

Replies: 39
Views: 24,471

Last Post By:: Last Post: 13th Apr 2011 02:53 PM; by YarrD

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METALWORK GENERAL

tig for silicon bronze

Started by bloggs1968, 9th Apr 2011 09:51 PM

180, bronze, filler, inverter, machine, rod, silicon, source, tig, weldmaster

Replies: 3
Views: 6,574

Last Post By:: Last Post: 10th Apr 2011 03:43 PM; by NewLou

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WELDING

Reducing size of bronze bushes

Started by JillB, 26th Jan 2011 08:48 AM

15.875mm, 16mm, 30mm, 5/8, advise, bronze, bushes, reduce, reducing, size

Replies: 4
Views: 4,962

Last Post By:: Last Post: 26th Jan 2011 12:16 PM; by Tankstand

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METALWORK GENERAL

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