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    Temperature of the exhaust of model engine

    Smoked since12 I'm 77 mechanic,machinist, been around carcinogens all my life,Doc says I'm very unusual, just be careful follow precautions, but enjoy life ,its not ok do my type of misspent youth,just don't hide under a blanket of being afraid. Can't get to heaven till you Die anyway.
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    Horizontal Milling Adapter for a Bench Top Vertical Mill

    https://www.mcmaster.com/gear-racks/ Many Choices and lengths
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    Need sage advise of truing up Bridgeport style vertical mill.

    Tramming a head is just a procedure,find a way your comfortable with, practice makes it easy and quick.. Like all things practice. If your afraid of it get rid of mill find another profession. Just my take on things. New brake rotors are cheap and parallel, if they weren't brakes would be...
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    V-TWIN---MAYBE V-4

    over torqued always rounds the small ones .and or inexpensive Allen keys
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    V-TWIN---MAYBE V-4

    )long time lurker, and an old guy self taught machinist,(79) BIG THUMB UP!!
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    piston skirt relief

    Scallops reduce weight, and also allows thermal expansion without a full skirt seizing in bore
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    Build my own milling machine

    Much too fast,if that cutter is 3", RPM needs to in the 50-100 Rpm. Machinery Hand Book would get a better RPM. Just my intuition.
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    Powermatic/Burke mill

    Quick hole Tapping unless you have a tapping head, but use a key type drill chuck, keyless will loosen when reversed and will have to back tap out by hand
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    Silver braze/solder

    one is an authority while being paid to testify(court of law) rest of the time it is just an opinion everyone has one RESPECT
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