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    Hardinge DSM/DV59 in excellent condition with tons of tooling

    in 'good to very good' condition REALLY don't want to part with her but it's time :( located in Charleston SC currently running via VFD but all original hydraulic speed controls are completely intact so the control panel shown in pics will be replaced with the original unit (also in...
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    best plan to sell off entire shop?

    I'm sure this has been discussed before and I missed it.. did a few searches but didn't find exactly what I was looking for. Are those liquidation type services a total rip off? i.e., is it better just to have some company come in and handle everything? I understand I would get less than if I...
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    syncro 250 DX coolant pressure switch question

    ...and the fun continues [emoji2359] how an 8 year old 6k welder fails so often is really beyond me. running scratch start all day yesterday, everything was great. Turned on the welder this morning to finish up the last of 1 million pieces I had to finish for a customer pick up this morning...
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    advice needed on purchasing a building/ fha commercial loan info needed.

    found a building that i LOVE. it's well within my budget, and my fico is over 700 and coming up which as i just paid off a few cc's. however, i don't really have good tax records and i don't have much for a down payment. all that being said i have literally no clue where to even begin with this...
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    saddle/notching fixture build for horizontal bandsaw.

    fair warning: safety nazi's will probably find objectionable content here. i.e. reaching under a brand new 4-6 tooth bandsaw blade running at 250 ft/min [emoji52] have to do one billion notches in 1.25 sch. 40 and i don't have a fancy water jet sooooo... nothing mind blowing.. some 1/2" CRS...
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    assembly loctite question

    was using 642 on the final assembly of some weird gauges that we made. material was 6061-T2, milled flat. just as an experiment i put a little of the green 642 on few little coupons of alu. no prep other than a little acetone wipe down and a light clamp. the next morning, as expected, the...
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    Q about signing shop drawings and legal stuff

    does signing/dating and putting my shop name in the title block mean that design is protected by any laws or have i been assuming wrong for years. purely hypothetical but let's say i design and build a prototype. we build it, it works. they like it, they buy a few more... months later someone...
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    need help: looking for mini 2mm spring chucks for lead holders

    as title says.. been making these little mini lead/scriber tip holders as gifts for a few friends by cannibalizing off the shelf china pencils. expensive and wasteful. found some on alibaba, but i would have to buy like 30,000 of them!! have searched high and low. i'm thinking that there has...
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    who's the user on the PM youtube vids?

    i'm sure this was covered during my 3 year hiatus from all things forum related; but search turned up no results. who's the guy on the practical machinist youtube videos? or rather what's his username. (his name is ian sandusky i think.. sandusky machine? ) i'm sure we've chatted on a thread...
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    i present for your amusement: this weeks boneheaded move. a stuck albrecht catastroph

    if you can't laugh at yourself something something... last week: rigid taping 5/8-11 on the lathe. turn around for a millisecond to acknowledge something help said to me and leave the drag on tailstock, locking up tight on reverse. this spun the work in the collet, snapped the tang on the MT4...
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    sanity check. mag drill adapter for a specific drill size.

    have to drill a bunch of .530" holes through some 2" 4140. big 5' x 5' pieces so getting them on a mill or drill is not happening. tolerance is relatively loose.. say +/- .005ish on position and can be a few thou over/under size without issue. so i would much prefer using a twist drill that i...
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    heads up.. ck giving away the 'ez dabber' thingamajig

    pondered wether this should go in 'general' or 'fabrication' for decidedly too long. ck worldwide is sending out a free sample of their little mechanical wire feeder thingy. seems kinda gimmicky to me but what do i know ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (full disclosure i suck at advancing wire in time with my dabs...
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    large lot of misc electronic related: switches / fuses / strain relief / amphenol / p

    been hoarding and collecting for a few 'projects' i've been talking about for way too long but the shop is slow and the rent is due. 1: amphenol/pin adapters/strain relief/ etc lot. mostly mil-spec stuff. almost everything in this pile is US made. some lightly used ebay stuff mixed in but at...
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    pex connection in air line leaking..

    I added a few extra short runs into my air system last week and as it's 'situationally temporary' i went with pex. I have two joints that are leaking fairly well at 100 psi. of course as it happens the two joints are the most pain in the ass ones to get to and really difficult to work around and...
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    looking for a hardinge dv/dsv 59 manual

    as title states... thought i had a digital dl in my dropbox but apparently not ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ anyone have a link to one by chance? thanks Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    OT need advice: shop ac possible contactor welded 'on'

    230v 24k btu frigidaire window unit. only about 3 years old. my understanding of these units, having been through three of them in ten years.. is that they really aren't 'servicable' (i know, should've just bought a mini split) seems like a welded shut contactor or possible bad relay as...
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    using Rustlick G25J grinding fluid as coolant?

    recently got a 5 gallon container of this stuff. it's already starting to slowly go bad (no floating particulate but a slightly acrid smell developing) i really don't do enough surface grinding to ever get through this pail so was contemplating using it as a cutting operation coolant on the...
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    maybe OT: interesting show about precision measures

    thought some of you guys would definitely be interested in this. i was hooked from the beginning and can't wait to finish the last episode after work tonight. it's called 'precision: the measure of all things'. they discuss standardizing distances and weight, etc. and new theories for...
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    bunch of tooling/misc cutting tools/etc FS

    hey guys.. doing some pre-move shop cleaning and got a bunch of surplus stuff to offload. some of this stuff is collecting dust so please feel free to make an offer if pricing seems high on anything. everything will go USPS flat rate, unless you prefer UPS. all prices are not including...
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    hey gang... been awhile

    missed you guys (and gals) life got heavy and had to step away from the computer entirely for a year or two... also i had no clue i could use the forum from my phone!?! guess i should have installed the tapatalk app thing way earlier. [emoji2375] will throw some pics of what we've been up to...

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