Recent content by bosleyjr

Make any progress, Jason? @JasonPAtkins

I'd poke some welding wire in through the bar tip and see where the blockage is. If it's at the juncture between the hole in the tip and the axial hole running through the bar, it may be a piece of swarf that got pumped into the thing. Might be able to push it out. Also: using welding wire...

Cool! Frankly, I'd pay for that. But then again, you're in a coop, and coops tend to be more responsive to their members I think.

That's what I would have hoped the phone companies would offer. Using a community app, phone numbers and caller id's that match a number, or word, or a pattern (in my case, it would be calls id'd as from "city, state"). The community database would then be polled before your phone even rang...

Probablyl best not to google that phrase. At least at work....

Short term Yes. If a board goes off-message and becomes a flame war (say of politics, or religion, or national pride) then a lot of the people who had been participating and driving a valid business model leave the site or lower their participation. You may triple your rate of posts, but you...

As I recall, these programs offer you money up front but take away coverage from the back end. That is you're good this year but next year if stuff hits the fan you get bankrupted. Do a LOT of research before signing on to this type of thing. The company that offers this plans, Benefytt...

I think that Swage-Lok silver plates their SS threads. These are SS fittings that get tightened and loosened a lot.

I think that the moderators are doing their moderator thing but the SW probably doesn't have appropriate tracking to move all responses. But don't you have to move the whole thread, and not just the post?

Yes. Goo Gone is extremely useful in removing adhesive. Test it on your acrylic to ensure compatibility. It's not good on many elastomers, it's fine on PTFE. But it's the go-to product for getting those invented-by-the-devil sticker adhesives off stuff. Active ingredient is d-limonene, a...

A2 246 blocks? Holy cats. That's about 200 bucks just for the blank material for a 246 block. Yeesh!

ChiraagB, you hit the high and low points. On the negative size you have the cost and effort of two operations, and the limited forming may not give you the grain structure rolling normally gives you. On the plus side, if rolling is infeasible due to work hardening this might allow you to do...

For some reason I just saw this thread again. I felt that adding some emphasis might help avoid chemical burns or blindness, so.... Meaning no offense to the person quoted (whose posts I've read and profitted from many). But the advice is wrong on many levels and dangerous. It's going to get...

So.... I'm an engineer, not a machinist. I understand the appeal of rolled threads. That said, with this SS you can get work hardening. So my question is whether threads are ever done partially. That is, a partial groove cut (hopefully without too much work hardening) and then the final...

It looks like the crests and roots are rounded. Is that true?