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i hope this isn't too far off topic, but i just took apart and cleaned the carburetor on my outboard engine, and I'm not sure if I lost a part or spring from my choke assembly? there's a short vertical spring that doesn't seem to pull the choke back into it's un-choked position completely...

I want to bend out the sides of a square aluminum tube - but don't know if the alloy the tube is made of will bend or crack. It's a 2" tube with 1/8" walls. will bending it be okay, or will it weaken the bent area and possibly crack and fail later? any thoughts?

I have a camera that I want to be able to pan horizontally in very small increments. So I'd like to build a gearbox with a manual crank on it that will take 10 turns to rotate a gear on the end of a cable just once. Anyone know of anything close to this that I could adapt? i bought a small...

Hi This isn't a strictly engine question, but... I have a pump device that pivots on a 1 1/4" pipe - a hollow PVC pipe acts as the socket that fits over the pipe about 5". But the pipe is just a little too small, so that the device rocks slightly. So my goal is to wrap something around the...