Recent content by Balta

There you go Steamchick, first hand experience beats heresy every time.

A while ago I remember seeing an article somewhere in which this guy made an aluminum melting furnace out of a stove heating element. At the right temperature they can be reshaped to comply to your space needs.

I have one of those YDBY outdoor doormats from IKEA. The nap is like plastic grass and not woven. The chips fall right through and don't get stuck to my shoes. When is too loaded, I just turn it upside down and shake. The chips just fall off just as easy (vacuuming doesn't seem to work as well...

Does anybody knows how to get these plans? Must of the projects I rally like seem to be in past issues. Getting all four of these issues does not look feasible.

I have been toying with this idea for a while and finally got it done. The cutoff toll you see in the pictures is a piece of a woodworking carbide tipped saw blade. the holder is mild steel with a V grove top and bottom. Originally I was going to use a 60 deg dovetail cutter but the one I have...

Bummer. I was very proud of "my idea"... :)

Mark Lecuye (That lazy machinist) used the laser with a vertical line method on one of his videos. I have never done it but it occurred to me that if you put a mirror on the other end of the room and make the laser hit the same spot back on the mill head, you would double your accuracy without...

Policarbonate will become brittle in the presence of hydrocarbons (gas, oil, etc).