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Been awhile since I've posted anything but the strangest thing just happened. One of my tombstone bench grinders just came in all by itself. I was on the other side of the shop doing some welding when I heard a whirring sound. I went to check it out and the grinder was running and some smoke...

I don't have a picture but I made my own, a chunk of a old desktop, 2 t-slot rails from rockler morticed into the top and a shop made fence. I also used a router with a rabbiting bit to make a cut out for replaceable inserts directly below the chuck.

This is definitely a candidate for mud jacking.

A friend of a friend of a friend passed along my contact info to a grad student at the university who has access to the equipment to find out what it is, I'm going to cut him a sample and hopefully he can test it for me. If I ever find out what it is I'll update this.

Yeah, it's a dull silver metal rod 1 1/4" in diameter in 3 lengths, approximately 3', 5' and 8' Honestly I didn't think that a pic would help.

It's not magnetic, to heavy for a exotic alloy. After closer examination it isn't showing any signs of corrosion so I'm guessing some kind of stainless. If I have time and remember I'll see if someone has a XRF to test it.

I didn't have a chance to check, I'll have to do that tomorrow

Thanks for the link.

I again went a bit overboard at a auction and may have purchased a couple of thousand pounds of metal. Amongst this was several pieces of 1 1/4" round bar marked HT-62451 Anyone know what alloy this may be? Google did not give anything.

After reading the OP I had to go and check, the system logged -22F over night outside and 65F inside.

Like a bunch of the others I have receiver mounts on all 4 corners of the fab table and the vises get mounted in what ever one is the best for the work at hand. The one that gets used the most is the post mount so no side for that one, I can work all the way around it.

I just watched a video using wax filament for lost wax casting, now I want one even more. One nice thing that I have seen is that you can quickly print a part and test fit before machining it in metal.

I had a master plan using the same method that you are using, the only things that have stayed the same are the vise, table saw and band saw. everything else has moved 3 or more times in 10 years.

How is that FEMA's fault? she requested the LOMA and didn't get the Ins so it is who's fault? No offense to your sis I feel for her but....

Index Milling machine by far

Thanks so much I learned something new today. Any how when a massager is used it trips all of those on the same circuit, plus the fact that nothing tripped when the blow dryer was letting the smoke out. Should my wife be worried and demand that they have a electrician come in and check things...

It was long enough for the stylist who was using it to drop it to the floor and for my wife to cross the room and unplug it so 30 seconds or more. and it did not trip the breaker. The gfci's are on the cords for the hair dryers. Completely commercial building a shopping mall to be exact. The...

The salon my wife work at is having a strange issue, when anyone uses their massager it trips the built in GFCI on all the blow dryers on that circuit. and then a few days ago one of the blow dryers had a massive short in the damaged cord and nothing tripped the short was at where the wires...

Your perlin will be fine as said not much pressure on a properly set up ladder. I have to laugh at the guys who are suggesting that the ladder would not be safe, they would absolutely freak out watching some one do a mid span cable, hooking the ladder hooks over a 1/4" cable between poles. I...

+1 on the rotary phase converter, My Index mill has 2 motors, it was easy to make the decision on getting a rotary vs 2 vfd's. Also on the plus side for a rotary is that it is easy to wire it to many machines, vs a vfd only working on 1. Check out American Rotary, my AR5 was just over $400...