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    OT-register domain name - what do i really need?

    5 years ago i registered a couple domain names with GoDaddy and they are coming up for renewal. At much advanced cost. I have never/"not yet" set up any entity to use them. All i want to do is keep the names reserved in case i do. :) Every registration service that is popular wants to sell a...
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    OT - floor tile decoupling systems?

    almost half a century ago :) (or maybe more accurately) "more than 4 decades ago" i set a lot of tile back when we (me plus employees) still did full renovations mostly in the DC area. fast forward to putting a hall floor in here at our own house for my poor patient wife.... Suddenly now days...
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    Diehl 660 lumber jointer FS

    Selling my Diehl lumber jointer, listed in FS section. https://www.practicalmachinist.com/forum/threads/diehl-660-lumber-jointer-fs.426044/ smt
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    Diehl 660 lumber jointer FS

    One of the latest modern steel frame 660's built. (Original) Reeves infinitely variable feed drive, 5HP feed motor. 2 x 5HP cutterhead motors complete with 6 knife helical cutterheads. Very sharp chain. Can be inspected in use. The "bad?" 550v machine. Includes matched transformer...
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    OT:(any remaining) slate mines in PA?

    When i was occasionally building tooling, parts, small machines and woodwork for a custom pool table builder starting early 1980's, at one point i tagged along to Pen Argyl when he went to pick up 3 sets of pool table slates. They were not ready for him afterall, so i got to nose around...
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    Bandsaw blades for really hard wood?

    I want to resaw bloodwood, tasmanian myrtle, cocobola, African blackwood and similarly hard lumber saved in the loft over the years. Does anyone have experience with some of the bimetal blades, irregular tooth pattern designed for metals such as Lenox trimaster...
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    commercial heat treat facility for 27' 2024-O to T4?

    One of the projects in our EAA hangar is a B25 restoration. Need to heat treat 4 ea L shape spar caps aprox 6" x 6" x 27'L. Parts are finished. Can easily find furnaces of more than adequate length at qualified heat treaters, including in town here. Unfortunately, so far facility with longest...
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    Electricity generation from humidity through nanopores

    If this has been discussed on PM, i missed it. https://www.umass.edu/news/article/engineers-umass-amherst-harvest-abundant-clean-energy-thin-air-247 get those nano size drill bits out! smt
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    Inclinometer -what for? how to use?

    Also, who made it?(I've been googling) & what is missing? Seems like there should be yet one more slide inside the existing one. There is another spring/gib as can be seen through a lower window, and the thumbscrew originally was in the lower hole as shown last photo. Does not seem to have...
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    CG Pixels for Pattern Floors (inlays)

    I despise slow videos so apologies for that. Don't be afraid to FF - Not much happens before midway, and even after it is a bit slow. The concept of computer generating a cutting map for wooden "pixels" to paint a large scale picture based on wood species is flawed as any woodworker knows -...
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    Parse Manchester cut-off tool numbers?

    Last year i modified a Manchester cut-off tool to work upside down bolted in the back position on one of my Hardinge second ops. At the time, i thought there were 13 inserts. From an auction multiple drawer lot of chucker tooling. When i changed that insert this year, it occurred to me to...
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    HDPE or UHMW for well cover?

    When we bought this house 3 decades ago, the above ground rectangular masonary box of the well was covered with a sheet of plywood that did not even really exclude rainwater. I had plenty of cedar and redwood, and made a nice little hip roof over it. Fast forward and it is rotten, eroded...
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    Hardinge indexer "clones"

    How do they get away with this? Could be a decent indexer but either not Hardinge or not "New" - probably both...
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    Who invented the first offset portable boring head, when?

    By portable, i mean the non-machine-specific accessory that will fit any mill or radial drill so long as it has the correct shank. As opposed to machine specific boring mill accessories. Almost all "modern" boring heads have some form of dovetail ways and that seems intuititive. I've seen a...
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    Surface grinder: do you change wheels or arbors?

    All my diamond wheels are on arbors, seems sensible plus most came with them. Though some that came on Sopko arbors have been removed since those wheels mostly get used on a pedestal grinder. OTOH, despite having a number of empty arbors on nails in the joists above, i rarely mount AlO wheels...
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    Trying to clear loft, sell OG redwood

    a little over 350 bd ft nominal OG clear all heart mostly VG redwood left over from jobs in DC during the 80's. Most of this specific lot was from a project for a first lady at the time. All nominal dimension lumber 11 ea 14' - 2 x 8. Couple each 20'- 2 x 10 & 14'-2 x 12 with a few 2 x 4's &...
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    High temp epoxy?

    Building tools out of plywood ("forms" & rings) to heat mould cast acrylic sheet. Forming temp is aprox 325 - 350F So far the plywood holds up ok. I need a "glue" to bond multiple plywood sheets, and to seal and fair them to hold air pressure or vacuum. Suggestions? Waiting for pricing from...
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    shops in Georgia or Armenia?

    I posted this in woodworking, maybe wider audience here? https://www.practicalmachinist.com/forum/threads/woodworkers-in-georgia-or-armenia.411051/ smt
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    Woodworkers in Georgia &/or Armenia?

    Any machinists or woodworkers in those countries that post here? Willing to consider a visit sometime in the coming year? Not sure what my free time will shape up to be, i'd like to ski just to be able to claim having done it, if there's any snow left. That aside, meeting other maker(s) in a...
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    Hardinge model B turret???

    Did Hardinge actually make these? Clearly Hardinge labeled, but did the whole assembly leave the factory like this, or is is a (very nicely done!) shop/factory conversion? Looks like for a SB 9 or 10K...

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