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    Killer Humidity!

    Yup.. Air will be on this morning. I have never been able to handle the humidity, and my getting older hasn't seemed to help. Thankfully don't see too many sticky days in the Twin Cities.
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    USA made compressors?

    X2 on the Castair. I have had one of their garage series 60 gallon for the past ten years . VERY well built compressor.
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    Who's got lathes?

    Hardinge is kind of a sad story ,at least where I work. When I started working at our shop in 1974 , You could have taken a photo of the shop floor and used it as the cover of a brochure for Hardinge. We actually had a Chucker dept which consisted of10-12 hand Chuckers . We also had tool room...
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    Who's got lathes?

    X2 The Leblond I use at work has the longer bed,is a few years newer,but is basically the same lathe. Talking with a repairman, he said the achillies heel on Leblonds like this are the servo motors FWIW. I think if I were going to outfit my garage with an engine lathe it would be a Leblond. I...
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    My new old Kelvinator cabinets

    And I thought I was the only one. They were in the garage when I purchased the house. I gave them a half as#ed coat of rustoleum about ten years ago. They wear like iron ,and deserve better. Excuse the mess....:)
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    garage security

    I always keep the Garage door closed. As a previous poster said ,even when mowing the lawn. I do have a question though. I believe that if my garage would be broken into, they are probably going in through the service door. My neighbor who has basically the same...
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    Air Compressor Sitting for Years

    That is a sad story ...Having been in high school in the mid 70's I had a choice of graphic arts, wood, metal , electricity, or auto shop courses . All available at different skill levels, Sophomore through Senior year. Also all were solid classes meant to send you to the next level of trade...
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    Autobody self training

    Another compromise That I have used is to prime , do the bodywork, block sand , then have the local Macco shoot the final. With acceptable body work , and removing your own trim ,you can get a decent job from Macco .
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    user question

    Okay please keep in mind that I'm not THAT computer savvy. A couple of days ago I logged on to the board and it didn't recognize my user name and or password . I had to have the password re-sent to me ,but now I see that my avatar is gone , and my total posts are like 4 What happened?
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