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    Have Canode upped their game yet?

    Yellow not orange twice...lol
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    Have Canode upped their game yet?

    I use the orange, red or orange pigment as we used to use red lead. A highlighter or it dulls the iron from being shiny. Not on the granite plate. NB should remember as he's take 2 or 3 of my classes at Steve Watkins in Texas. I let the students test the yellow, red and orange color to be...
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    Leadwell MCV1300 Fanuc OM Tool Changer Issues

    It was 15 years ago when I taught there. They must have changed. Dan knows...thanks dan
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    Ensuring the coat of prussian blue on the granite is thick enough, but not too thick

    In the old days using Dykem paste. I used a cut off thumb of a leather glove as it fit deep in a dovetail. Also some hard white felt. I still use both and a cut short bristles if a paint brush.
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    G.A. GRAY PLANER FOR SALE IN INDIANAPOLIS

    Just Google bidspotter broken arrow Oklahoma. Auction. It's an internet auction.
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    Leadwell MCV1300 Fanuc OM Tool Changer Issues

    If you don't get help here. Contact Compac in Plano Texas as they specialize (or did) Leadwell.
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    bridge straight edge out of steel

    Yes but I'm not going to post it because you want me too..lol
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    bridge straight edge out of steel

    I say WHO CARES on a test. I can guarantee it creeps or moves as my Dad did it, I have done it and dozens of my students have seen it. And as Professor Slocum said it's a know fact for years. I put a couple of pictures of my repeat customers. If I didn't know what I was talking about...
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    Le Blond regal

    Take the top off the headstock and look. Get a manual from Vintagemachinery.org if you don't have one.
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    G.A. GRAY PLANER FOR SALE IN INDIANAPOLIS

    There is another auction next week in Broken Arrow Oklahoma of an Estate of a machine rebuilder who had a planner, way grinder other grinders, mills, scrapers, etc. I willbe bidding on the small tool. I continplated on telling you..lol...don't bid on the newer power scrapers or straight...
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    Le Blond regal

    I would disconnect the power (electric) and lock it out. Then shift it to the higher RPM spindle speeds and try to turn the chuck. There is also a neutra, so see if you can find it. There is a mechancal clutch that you lift up. There's a safety latch on the handle. If you don't have a...
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    Awards presented to Richard King for his teaching of Scraping

    I thought I'd post the awards presented to me by the Taiwan Machine Builders Association, TAMI. From PMC - Taiwan Precision Machine Research Center where I taught Machine building ans Scraping. Note they call me the "Grandfather of Platform Scraping' . Also awards I recieved from BIAX the...
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