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Hi guys,

I came across a book that has heaps of info on foundries, furnaces, burners, refractories etc and the info is really great on all aspects of building the furnace as well as varying sizes...

Would love to see what you have, both the foundry and how the burner goes.

I have started the casing for my foundry, using old LPG bottles. I filled them with water after venting them for some...

I had only just gotten a hold of some home foundry books from the Workshop Practice Series, as i have a bit of scrap Aluminium that i would like to turn into shapes suitable for turning and milling...

If you go onto ebay here you will find a vast selection of books available.
I have bought a few from them now.

I bought my copy of The Amateurs Lathe from them for $24.95 plus postage i think...

On evilbay they also have a product called "Tap Magic" which they advise as being available in 4 oz ($12) and 16 oz containers ($38) + delivery.

"4oz(120ml) Tap magic with EP-Xtra ozone friendly...

Thankyou for this link, there are a heap of useful files in there for me too.

Tez

The best rods i have used to date, not that i have tried many types or brands, was Satincraft which laid down the best and smoothest welds i had ever done.

And..........the slag just seems to...

Seeing that one brought back memories.

I had one of these up until 1999 and sold it in a garage auction, it weighed a ton to lift, but worked great. It had been my fathers beforehand, and i...

I'm in Bonalbo.

The front of the Vocational Training Courses - Student Handbook 2009 (North Coast Region) reads.........

"Government schools in North Coast region are, together, a Registered...

Thankyou,
I'm busy reading them now, some good info in there too.
Would be good to have them in one place and stickied maybe.

Tez

I came across this topic whilst browsing back topics, and wondered what may be happening in this area.
I feel this would be a really good way of learning, and for different aspects to be...

Yeah they are great,

I just bought some on eBay at $19.95 each from one supplier, and won one for half that price on a listing that just closed.
They are a wealth of info.

Workshop Practice Series of Books - eBooks

I came across links for downloading these as eBooks from 2 sites (downloadable via the Rapidshare site) in this series of books, has a heap of the books...

I came across this site in my wanderings around the web, didnt know if it had been mentioned before though..........

Mark's free (legal) technical e-books links

Many of these books are of order...

I have been reading the posts on the forum with interest about the PSA levels and also the heart problems.

I fell into both categories..............
PSA has been increasing over the past few...

Yes, have got the plans and info on making both the Colloidal Silver yourself from readily available gear, and have quite a bit of info on both the Hulda Clatke and Dr Beck zappers and plans to make...

Thats a great little tool,
it would go great on my little C2 Lathe too

Yes thats the one bollie7,

Its MEM20105, and shown as part of the MEM05 Metal and Engineering Training Package except that i dont have to do the apprenticeship side of the course because of age...

Thanks albasia_rudy
Have got the Mig gas info all sorted out, and was looking for disposable bottles for the amount of work i would need with gas use - little - use cored gasless wires otherwise.
I...

I heard that my local High School was going to run a woodworking course, so i decided i wanted to get up there and see what they were teaching - it ended up they were also going to do a metalworking...

How to clean the toilet bowl

This was simply too much of a time saver not to share it with you.

1. Put both lids of the toilet up and add 1/8 cup of pet shampoo to the
water in the bowl.
...

Have noticed a few advertised on evilbay at the moment.
There are a number of smaller bench bandsaws, and i also saw a new horizontal metal cutting bandsaw listed at $389 starting price with about 4...

Colin, am at Bonalbo, and its fairly close to 2 hours west of Alstonville, its approx 1-1/2 hours from Lismore, but still in the Northern Rivers area though.

Bugger, thats about 2 hours away - east from me - but good to know, thanks for the info there and for the welcome guys

G'Day all
Am from Northern Rivers area of NSW and interested in lotsa things to do with woodworking and metalworking.
Only found the forum this afternoon when looking for info on welding (Mig)...