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    Remington NY clearance.

    Ever wanted to make rolling blocks ?....Complete clearance of the Remington -Ilion plant by All Surplus Auctions .......bids online now.
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    OT ....Report on Callide B 200MW turbine outage released .

    Released after months of 'investigations ' .....the report is somewhat interesting .......basically ,someone was installing a new battery charger ,and the lights went out ......in the controll room of the 200MW turbine house ....screens down too ,and all the controll circuits ..ooops........more...
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    OT ...carby knockoff.

    OT ...how can you make a copy of a Keihin PWK carby and deliver it to my door for $40A /$30 US????.....Well made too ,its my third one.....Chinee .of course.
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    Catastrophic grinding wheel failure

    I once tried a 'whisker ' grind of a plain cylindrical piece without a dog ......got away with the first couple of pieces .........then the wheel grabbed it ,spun it up and melted the centres ......the piece hit the 20ft high shop roof,and bits of grinding wheel went all over the place...
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    OT...Roller bearings rust frozen in aluminium housings.

    I have an antique motorcycle engine...put together similar to a Harley ....water in the crankcase has frozen the whole assembly together .......what I need is to soften the rust in the roller bearings ,rust removal not necessary .......once the rollers are freed ,the crankcases can be separated...
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    OT Cracked cast iron cylinder head repair.

    A short time ago ,someone was discussing cracked cast iron head repair.........well ,I have just seen one done with "laser welding".........no heat effects,no heat distortion,no machining needed ,except to reface the valve seats with grinding.
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    O.OT..... Is your lawyer for ya or agin ya?

    Guys I sold out to are being prosecuted by the Council for a Vegetation Protection Order crime......The council have taken two years nearly to bring the prosecution to court,the buyers have engaged a lawyer ,as they are facing a million dollar penalty as well as a criminal conviction if they...
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    Caballeria?

    Is anyone familiar with these machines?...........they we made in Spain in the 60s/70s by a certain J.Caballeria Funt......doesnt seem to have made anything else but three sizes of capstan lathe ..........the machines seem to be quite plentiful ,even 50 years later.................I have one...
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    Cabellaria?..Spanish machine tool manufacturer?

    There are a fair number of small capstan lathes around branded Cabellaria,with size designations of TR30,TR40 ,and TR 50.......Reputedly Spanish made in the 1960s and 1970s.........Does anyone have any information on the manufacturer?....Not looking for spares,just info.
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    Review: Rollback truck versus Palfinger crane truck

    OK,my latest cranetruck machinery shifting bill for three 2 ton machines is $616.......so ,everyone says get a rollback ,these guys work for peanuts....so ,the guy I sold the yard to has a roll back ,he says ,yeah ,my guy can do it no probs.......Buuuut ,there were probs......first ,was the old...
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    Villiers factory 1940s (post war)

    Interesting U Tube period photo essay of the Villiers factory ,Wolverhampton,in the 1940s.....Lots of US made machine tools ....To me its a surprise they had so much stuff....nice and clean ,too.....For those familiar with Villiers products ,it was mainly tinpot little two stroke engines and...
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    grinding a lathe bed

    .I have an all angle slideway grinder attachment that fits the frame of my Landis 16x72 Universal.....Question is ,if I grind a bench lathe bed ,how do I hold it down without springing it?.....or maybe I dont hold it down and rely on gravity..Do I chock it with wedges to level it ,and leave it...
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    The Pacific War

    Local gunshop says the only Oz powder manufacturer is not making reloader powders due to big orders for shells ,rockets and bombs....for the Pacific War.....and now I see the govt is talking about it....No wonder the price of scrap metals has rocketed.....War is always a good cure for...
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    Landis Type C 16x72 Universal grinder 1942

    I need to move a Landis grinder,Type C,16x72 Universal,WW2......I need a weight for the machine...I have the instruction book,no mention of weight ....I also have a Cinci book that does give weighs,and a similar size machine is under 10,000lbs......The Landis seems to me a lot heavier than...
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    Hydraulic cylinder air bleed issue.

    Some 20 years ago I made a hydraulic press for a customer incorporating two upright 7" bore shop made rams with around 12" usable stroke.....They are all loose pieces held together by tie rods.....It suffers from becoming air bound under the pistons through time.......Piston sealing is by a...
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    USA made new lathe ?.

    People often ask are any lathes still made in the USA?......one that is ...Binns Superlathe....and as the salesman says....the question is "can you afford not to have one?"
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    Loose rollers in various sizes.

    Someone asked a while ago about loose roller bearings,for the table of a T&C grinder,maybe........Anyhoo,Ive found a source of loose rollers in many,many sizes standard and overs...Peters Bearing de,in Germany .Not to mention many odd bearings of all types....I suggest interested persons record...
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    Fischer sleeve valve engine & car.

    Is anyone familiar with the Martin Fischer designed sleeve valve car engine ,production circa 1912-1914.,in Switzerland.......I have only been able to locate an Austrian patent,and an amendment to protect the method of sizing the sleeves.....I have read somewhere that the engine was license...
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    Robot firebugs

    Interesting supposition from the weeks Ocado fire in Wolverhampton ,UK......It seems the fire was spread at speed (12 m/s actually) by the fleet of pick and place robots ,which being robots ,didnt know they were on fire. ...despite a "state of the art " sprinkler system.............looks like...
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    steam cylinder slide valve facing.

    A few years ago,I built myself a small steam engine using a fabricated D type slide valve cylinder.......bore is 4 3/4", stroke 7" ,an old CAT D333 cylinder liner,pressure 100 psi app,revs 100/min approx.......The flat valve facing is steel to steel.,and has worn badly ,scoring and leaking lots...

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