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    OT: Building collapse in Iowa, causes?

    Building Integrity on YT knows his stuff.
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    Setting up a worn-out motor armature in a steady rest.

    Look through threads from the late Sir John, these types of motor repair were his bread and butter.
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    Ideas for driving spindle encoder on manual lathe

    Clough42 on youtube
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    Climate change - consequences?

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    OT German eBay no shipping to US mail forwarding service?

    shipito.com have a receiving depot/warehouse in Austria.
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    Anyone have any good articles on sandcasting aluminum?

    AlloyAvenue network
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    Used motor oil, who wants it? Whats it worth?

    An acquaintance does what he calls community oil recycling. After he does his oil change the old oil goes into the recently emptied container, everything is wiped clean. When he goes shopping he leaves the container on the back of his ute in the car park and invariably the container disappears.
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    OT Best way to ship tool from US to UK

    From the shipping calculator at freight consolidator shipito.com (I use them 2 or 3 times a year) airfreight for your 200lbs to say London W12 will cost $650 via Fedex. First though you have to get it to one of the shipito.com shipping centres which are located in CA, NV, OR.
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    Seeing Milcron's avatar, the painting

    And it was Coalbrookdale because by a fluke of nature and geology and the last ice age, the 4 main ingredients needed to make iron, i.e. coal, iron ore, limestone and clay were all there in exposed seams one above the other in the banks of the River Severn.
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    Hardening 12L14 - Case or Otherwise

    Don't harden 12L14 I recently need a quick and dirty 5/16" square drive to undo a bung. With this thread in mind I made 2 drives and hardened them both with Cherry Red, one drive from 12L14 the other from 1020. The leaded drive twisted, the 1020 item did the job, there was maybe 50 to 60 foot...
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    OT...theory: ocean levels rising cause

    Its the oil extraction As told to me by an otherwise reasonably intelligent person a few years ago. Its right up there with the 'more ships causing ocean rise' theory. Oil is a lubricant right? So if we keep extracting oil from the earth that increases the earth's internal friction, and its...
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    OT: Cheap freight options out of the USA

    I'm using shipito.com for items too big for USPS 20lb boxes. They have a shipping calculator to play with, your supplier needs to send your goods to the shipito warehouse in CA, sign up for the basic services is free.
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    Internation Shipping Parcels -Best Price and Service

    From the US to Australia, USPS is the best deal if the goods will fit in a 20 pound flat rate box, outside of that their prices go crazy. For other stuff I use shipito.com, an airfreight consolidator thats sends goods all around the world using DHL Fedex etc. Because shipito are exporting...
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    What value current have you observed when removing rust in a soda bath?

    Adding more sodium carbonate or sodium bicarb to the solution will also increase current flow.
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    OT Goodwood Festival of Speed

    As you say, Goodwood Revival is the meet with the old cars. I was over there 5 years ago, and spur of the moment tried to buy Goodwood tickets online, but they would only sell them to me if I had a "pre-approved" or maybe it was "pre-registered" credit card. There wasn't enough time to go...
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    Beginner looking to buy first machine for home shop

    If you want responses with an Australian accent, try posting on http://metalworkforums.com
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    Stock tolerance (especially structural metric)

    I've used a lot of RHS over the years. Whenever I checked wall thickness it was ALWAYS right at the bottom end of tolerance.
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    Making an ER collet chuck

    The collet chuck I show has a hollow 5MT and can take through stock up to the 20mm capacity of an ER32 collet. Its little different in concept to the more traditional 5MT/5C collet chuck.
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    Making an ER collet chuck

    This is an ER32 chuck and headstock through tube that I made for my generic 14 x 40 lathe a few years ago. It mounts in the the M5 taper in the headstock. An ER32 chuck in the headstock holds work pieces just fine, but its slow and fiddly swapping work in and out. I remember when I first got...
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