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Yes, but thin pieces of magnesium ignite easily and burn very hot, exactly why they make a great fire starter. So clean up thoroughly after drilling magnesium.

As long as you're not working with magnesium or titanium, don't worry about it.

Father's Day in June and Black Friday in November are usually the only consistently predictable sales windows for the North American PB Swiss vendors.

I've never heard of a 10" drill press having such a large column. 10" is a tiny drill press. Most that size have something like a 2" column. Even my 1940s Royal 18" drill press that weighs the better part of 500 lbs only has a 3.5" column.

Or the lugs are slightly swollen, just enough to stick in the socket.

I'm slightly biased in that I make high-end 2x72 belt grinders and can't imaging not having one at my disposal, but if you want to do real metal work moving appreciable amounts of material, the conversation should start with a 1 hp motor. If you're looking for something to just debur and clean...

That's not how the physics works. If the load were applied up or down at the wheel (like torquing a lug nut with a breaker bar) then you'd be correct because of the increased length of the moment arm from your hand to the jack stand contact point. But for the failure mode tested in the video...

When it comes to the failure mode he used in the testing, the separation of the stands doesn't matter. Spacing them wider wouldn't increase the amount of force necessary to tip the vehicle.

Fair point. For me one of the biggest attractions of link belts is their versatility, being able to change the length on the spot. For example, today I'm planning on machining a new motor mount for my drill press that will decrease the necessary belt length by a couple of inches. I'll just pull...

I don't know why you brought up flat pulley drives. Clearly we're talking about v-belt drives here. My (Royal, not Atlas) drill press from the '40s uses cast iron 6-step 5L v-belt pulleys. I've run 4L link belts 24/7/365 on other equipment with cast iron pulleys and they don't show any...

Unless you plan on running your drill press 24 hours a day, every day for many years (approaching decades) then this is a complete non issue. You’ll never wear out a drill press’s cast iron pulleys in a lifetime of normal use with a link belt, assuming you’re running the correct amount of belt...

This is absolutely true for powered grinding with diamond abrasives. But for hand work at low temperatures (usually with water or oil) it's not an issue. The reason diamond is commonly used in sharpening stones is that many high-performance knife steels have large quantities of carbides...

There's a lot of information being thrown around without qualification here. I'm assuming we're talking about cutting steel, 50-250 sfm. If you want to cut aluminum at 1000 sfm then a simple belt reduction will work fine and you can ignore the rest of this post. - Reduce 1740 rpm single phase...

The more weight you have in the drawer the less you'll notice the soft-close mechanism. The way a drawer feels empty is completely different to how it feels loaded down with tools.

But comparing sandpaper with sockets doesn't make much sense. When you're tightening the lugs on your car, you don't work up from a 10mm to a 12mm to a 14mm and finally to your 19mm. When sanding a piece of rough wood you may go from P80 to P120 to P180 to P220 and then apply a finish, sanding...

Can you share a link to where you got it? I can't seem to find it on amazon.jp.

What are you doing with the sandpaper? If it's woodworking: 80, 120, 150, 220, 320, 400 will do almost everything. If you want to work up to a mirror finish on paint or metal you'll need grits up to about 2000. If you're sanding metal then it's almost always advisable to use wet/dry...

It's a square peg, so you can place the socket on it loosely in one of four orientations, then twist about 45˚ if you want it to lock.

Broadly speaking you don't want to use a drill bit in an impact driver/wrench. As long as the impact wrench is free spinning it will work fine, just like a drill (which is why it's often done with small pilot drill bits in wood), but if the bit grabs hard enough to cause the impact wrench to...

Here's a link to the Fusion 360 file of the assembly. I think this will give you all the access necessary. https://a360.co/3MGU4c3 Caveat: I never planned on sharing the CAD with anyone so the files are rough. All the cylindrical parts were turned on a manual lathe so they aren't modeled fully...