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How to ignite a rag?

Dead easy... the more oil rags there are, the more they are packed in a confined space, the faster the chemical reactions take place, the more the heat builds up and the...

I think the company / organisation has a marketing structure that really sucks - because rather than defining the topic in large blocks, and selling them thus at a fair price, they split the subject...

Yeah... I think it's a good idea.

One tends to imagine that "toys" are things that are kids kill themselves with and scale models are things you kill them with.

No serious now...

Toys I...

Life is like dealing with customer service.

If they know their topic and are delivering the goods to specification on time - great.

If they are clueless and deliver nothing; and do nothing to...

Great people make great things, losers make lame stupid stuff.


Make something good - that they can all go use together., like some plywood boats to go fishing, rowing and sailing in - or racing...

I want to reinforce some plywood I am making, and I want to reinforce it - purely for crush resistance, kind of like running steel reinforcement bars through cement.

Beam 100 wide, 3mm thick gets...

You mean "In six months - I have not done anything because I don't know where to start" is the answer?

Would you like me to post you a steel rule, a pencil and a pad of paper - and an instruction...

am just appalled in the way people have become so stupified with this "If I can't get the parts out of a packet - then I can't do it" perception of life.

Even for making REALLY simple...

This is the "HOW" of energy exchange - or the process of conversion of sunlight into chemical energy, to fuel the growth process of trees.

And remember boys and girls - If you find this confusing,...

OK timber gets heated and immersed in AIR and STEAM etc., and treated to assorted moisture levels, including pressure treatments with creosote and assorted biocides etc., .

But I was thinking, is...

One of my friends told us, "My old Italian father who only had a third grade education, told all his children, "Never go to bed at night, as stupid as you had awoken that morning".

So tell me...

Sometimes the "tried and true" methods really are based on the long standing practices that are the result of the elimination of "problematic issues and practices".

Sometimes the "tried and true"...

Ohhhhhh the limits of my ignorance have been superseded.


Some brands of toothpaste have powdered chalk as the main abrasive (polishing compound).... calcium carbonate. Now of course they seem...

I am not a reformed smoker.....

I am an object orientated phsycoanalytically astutified CLEAN AIR BREATHER.

How can I phrase this about smokers without starting open warfare on people who do...

OK the sump oil issue:

How this thread started:

Glenn K (No relation to Malcom X, Gen Y or RU 12) wanted a simple easy way to clean most of the crap out of old motor oil, to make it nicera to...

I would have thought that as the surface speed of the chain in the bar, and given that the forces tend to be almost exclusively sliding., that given that high oleic (?) acid vegetable oils within...

I am right into almost everything - because it's all interesting, there are endless things to learn and opportunities to enjoy and make use of.

Some times I like to brush my teeth with a bit of...

The best cure for this is to take all your clothes off and roll around naked in a patch of stinging nettles.

It's a traditional folk remedy.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

I can see:

Gold Atoms - through the round window.

"Si" in silicon atoms on a tin atom back ground through the arched window

An Elektron through the square...

Hmmmm not sure if a NEW forum could be created for Kids Stuff (of all ages) but these "Tree Houses" are brilliant and - ahem - it's a professional industry....

Some of them are proper things and...

OK - making a panel up 7mm ply, ~900 x 400mm, two strips of 70 x 35mm pine @ 900 long glued to the (almost) edges - along the long sides..

Ummm the pine is the wonderful banana beam from Bunnings....

Ohhhhhhhh so CLOUDS are full of teeny little water molecules - coalescing into teeny little water drops - but you can't see them either, not even from millions of miles away....

OK.

Dissolved...

OK motor oil and it's contaminants.

The simple version.

Oil filters are only sieves. They work on two principles. fineness of mesh or fiber weave, and depth or thickness of filtration medium. ...

That is made to "resole" the wearing soles of footwear.... You know when the soles wear out way before the uppers start to fall apart.

I know why as a WELDOR that worn toes are a big NO NO - on...

I would have thought a news paper or a swish outside with a broom would have been easier.

I mean it's not like they bite or anything.

Glad your hear, giving it all a go.

Remember - aim the pointy and sharp things - away from you.

I was skkimming the net to find a preservative for diluted PVA glue.

That is Polyvinyl Acetate - and not Polyvinyl Alcohol.

And I came across this - a patent application (expired) on HOW to...

Ancient Books that Explain Much.

The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Mechanical Properties of Wood, by Samuel J. Record, M.A., M.F.


PREFACE

This book was written primarily for students of...

I did the conversion using 7mm ply as the backing plate.

Used the original grinding wheel mounting washers to clamp the ply and I used contact adhesive to mount the abrasive coated paper / cloth...

I am after 200 hard wooden beads of the design shown in the picture.

I'd be happy to make 10 of them if I had too - but 200 would be better done by someone who is geared up to spit them out..
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There is no such thing as magic and sorcery in steel making; only tight controls on the formulation, heat treatment and the forging and cold working - followed the testing of the finished product.
...

Balled Bearings?

Depends upon the type of service the components are subjected too.

Plain brass components rubbing together in a dry dust free environment are both self lubricating and work...

If I was making more tuned length SS extractor systems, and I had to make joints in them, I would like to plug the joint from the backside with a split solid plug.

Then the only internal purging...

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Dear All - Carbon tool steel and High Speed Steel.

The differences: (a simple version)

Carbon Tool Steel (depending upon exact carbon content, other constituents and state of heat...

Easy and fast way... lathe - decent metal working bench lathe is a worthwhile investment.

Reamer / big drill / boring bar / lathe at engineers shop.

0.5mm radius increase in ID.....not HUGE...

An observation;

I am a big one for "an idea" followed by "read, research and results"...

But I am also a big one for trying for the sheer interest of it; with caveats... not too dangerous and...

"Are you sure about the power source for Mig? Migs (old style- not digital elecktricery) are set up for constant voltage where as stick tig utilise constant current for arc stability and ease of...

godless me only knows how I got into this, but it's through the electrolysis of sea water (salt water), that you get Chlorine / Sodium Hypochloride / chloride / Hydrochloric acid (whatever) and...

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I have found a TIG welder!

It runs from 240V single phase, 12V and 24 V batteries.

It has a 0.5A to 200A output.

It has variable OCV.

It is the size of a block of butter.

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Hmmmmmmm

etc.,

I can get some "very economically priced" gouges from Tough Tools - via a distributor, or direct from them.

(This is a link to the page of chisels and gouges - click on...

OK as one tries things as much to "do it" as well as to figure out ways to "get out of it" when the occasional disaster impends.....

I don't know a name for this process, but I will invent one;
...

I am pleased that you all have decided to have a go of the steamer....

The steamer is HUGE treat, plus if you get really excited by the steam you can get the extension cord out and run around...

I was thinking about this, and it's actually pretty easy.

A constant pressure pumping system, 3 sets of a reversible stepped control valves, rams and positional indicators - and the algorithms to...

I want to make my own CNC router; however the price of the ball screws and all that, seems rather high.

I was thinking that the function of the screwing via incremental proportions of the stepper...

I HAND plane lots of hide glue joints in timber, as well as timber in general.

AND as you all know a wipe with some candle wax or a drop or two of oil along the sole makes for lithe and briskly...

This is very clever....... 2 bits of smooth angle iron in the vice... AND

"if you use a vice or hammer, a piece of newspaper on both sides of the saw plate and halfway up the teeth (or down the...

I hear they make good body jewelry - like nipple clamps and the like.

I think that without a full set of engineering drawings....

and

Without a testing of the timbers......

Etc., etc., etc.

Also while I don't know the exact purpose, location and fitting to...

This is pretty simple and quite short....

A BOLT VICE is a simple 1 or 2 or more screw VICE, that is used to mainly hold timber while carving it or clamping a glued joint etc.

This model has 2...

In fact you sound like an expert on the subject so I guess I'd have to agree with everything you had to say.

But I have one question.

How did you find the time to post anything? I thought you...