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    Bowling lane wood: hoard it or pass it along?

    I've got close to 100 feet or more of this stuff. I've been sitting on it for about 10 years; waiting for the time to come when I would finish out my shop and use it to build benches, tops for lista cabinets and such. I'm at the point where I need to get in behind the stack to insulate and...
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    Establishing a supply chain for your product + finance/accounting questions.

    I did not want to hijack Covenant mfg's thread so I started my own. The core of my business is built around the design, manufacture and retail sales of my own products. I have zero debt but I am not swimming in cash either. My production runs are usually 100-300 units at a time and all of my...
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    WTB: 6061 drops. 1.5 x 1.75 rect or similar

    I need some aluminum for a small upcoming job. 1.5 x 1.75 x 3.5 is the stock dimension for each piece. I need a total of 12 feet but less is ok if you don't have it all. More is ok if it's close enough for me to drive and priced well enough that I don't mind tripping over it for the next few...
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    Anyone have a Blanchard near Ravenna Ohio?

    I need to have some 4140 knocked down to 0.245" +/- 0.003". It is just raw stock that will be sawn into blanks. Quick and dirty, flatness in an unrestrained condition is not important.
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    Moisture in the shop; how do you combat it?

    Does anyone else get it this bad? I've got 2 fans circulating air but so far it has not been much help.
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    OT: Awesome HGR find.

    I went to HGR today to get some goodies to build a weld positioner. While making my rounds, as one does at HGR, I stumbled across this beauty. I am fairly certain this is a military UAV operator's console. It is almost entirely made from machined aluminum - even the guard around the big red...
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    WTB some nice tap wrenches and other tools

    I would like to gather a nice set of well cared for, high quality tap wrenches; preferably Starrett brand. It's not the sort of thing I can drop $500 on all at once, but if you happen to have 2nds or 3rds of something that you no longer need; I would be grateful for the opportunity to buy them...
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    OT optimal cutting speed and feed rate for lawn mower blades?

    Ok, I cannot be the only one here who has thought about this while mowing grass, the mind wonders to some interesting places. I have a lot of grass to mow, 5 acres at least. I recently picked up a well cared for Bolens DGT1700 from my local auction house. It is a well built little machine with...
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    Trochoidal milling open pocket in MCam X9

    I am trying to mill the pocket in yellow, it is .300 deep and .300 wide. I would like to use a trochoidal tool path with a 3/16" end mill to remove the majority of the stock and leave 0.01" for a finish pass. I selected an open pocket tool path which has a trochoidal roughing option. However...
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    For sale: CRESS C1228 furnace rebuild kit

    I got this with an auction lot. It contains 3 panels with heating element, a thermocouple and a Watlo temperature controller. The panels are connected by the heating element. I don't really want to mess around with pulling it out of the box and risk breaking it. However, if someone is truly...
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    Surface plate and straight edge auction find.

    It is not technically related to machine reconditioning, but dang it, I'm excited and nobody I know has an appreciation for these things. I just picked these up from the local auction for (what I feel) is next to nothing. It sucks they left them outside but I cannot complain too much I guess...
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    OT storms and power outages

    I was watching live reports of the radar on Friday and it looked ugly for a large portion of Arkansas, Mississippi and a number of other states - even western ohio saw a tornado. My grid power is guaranteed to go down when the wind blows over about 35mph. It was out almost 3 full days last...
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    WTB: Perkins Precision spring coiler

    The early models were also sold under the name Perkins Machine and Gear. If you have one of these machines and you would consider selling it, I would like to hear from you. Thanks!
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    NE Ohio: The easiest $30-$35 / hour you will ever make. (Not spam)

    It's not a meaningless title, I am actually serious. I don't mean "up to" $30-$35 an hour either. I am 98.3% sure all positions start at $30+. Machinists, welders, crane operators, dimensional and NDE inspectors, industrial maintenance (electrical or mechanical), Welder helpers, tool grinders...
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    What type of foundation and floor for tension fabric building?

    My shop is currently cluttered with items unrelated to it's intended purpose of making parts. It has become an annoyance that must be rectified soon. To do this, I bought a 40ft connex box and filled it with shelves and akro bins for organized storage of 'shelf-able' items. For larger items...
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    WTS: Anilam Crusader M manuals, schematics and parts.

    Cleaning shop, I haven't had a crusader control for a few years and I don't plan on getting another. It's time for this stuff to find a new home. $200 + shipping for everything. If I find more crusader stuff around the shop, you'll get those parts too. - Complete D/A and CPU wiring harnesses...
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    Interesting CNC mill, was it built on a Deckel?

    I came across this machine browsing the Last chance section on HGR's site. It is an Italian built machine marketed for machining carbon for edms (I think). https://hgrinc.com/productDetail/CNC/Used-Isper-Isper-F2v-CNC-Vertical-Mill/12211280073/ The F2V is shown at the bottom of the page here...
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    RFQ - easy wire EDM job, 400 pcs.

    MUST BE LOCATED WITHIN THE UNITED STATES. I cannot post a drawing for this part. I do have a SW part file that I will email to anyone interested in quoting the work. (I can do other file types tomorrow) Anyone interested, please PM me with your email address and company info. For now...
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    Would lengthy blackouts create new manufacturing opportunities?

    https://mobile.twitter.com/i/events/1528636408113397761 According to Bloomberg, Deadly blackouts due to climate change, pandemic and war? Or deadly blackouts due to the response of fake climate change, over dramatized pandemic and war? Whichever side one might choose to take, the result...
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    Phase Perfect: voltage doubling w/o a transformer?

    Phase technologies now has a line of phase converters that will turn 240v single phase into 480v 3 phase. They claim it can still run 240v 3 phase loads as well, just not simultaneously with 480v loads. What sort of voodoo magic is going on here? Does anyone here have one of these units...

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