I will be there on Saturday. Driving up from DC on Friday night. Daniel

I have an old craftsman table saw and someone put an aftermarket pulley on it. This caused problems with motor pulley alignment. To align the motor the woodruff key would only be slightly in the pulle

Use FreeBSD. It won't approach infinity and it's just like old machinery - you get to put together your own tooling. Daniel

librecad is what I have. Everytime I go to use any cad program I realize it's just faster to sketch it and call it a day. The only reason I would consider it might me a plasma-cam or similar. That too

*splat*

I am having life of brian flashbacks. Something about each and every one of you is an individual with your own thoughts and ideas! That and the "romans go home" are my favorite scenes. Can't think of

The would be the unicode character in hexadecimal e.g. 00b0 for the degree symbol. In hex a single digit can be 0-F representing 16 possible values. It maps easily to a nibble which is half of a byte.

This page breaks down unicode input for different operating systems: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_input The values for various symbols in hex and decimal are here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

I have a set I bought years ago from a guy who made them up himself. They work great and I can easily a small car with gentle pushes. I'd look into the surface of the floor and the quality of the cast

There are a lot of articles on this subject. Here is somewhere to start: http://www.metalwebnews.com/electric.html

My ex pretty much nabbed half of every major tool, set of tools, or any other item I owned. I ended up scrapping a lot of stuff because replacing the other half cost more than the whole item. She was/

I'm in DC. Lights flickered a bit. There were some heavy gusts of wind and some rain but the shop stayed dry. A few folks at work in more rural areas lost power but most of them have it back again. On

The prices are pretty high nowadays and as mentioned the larger machines are the same price and sometimes cheaper because not many folks have the room and they are HEAVY. Kind of like lathes :) Daniel

Wow. The newer cars don't have the number stamped on the block - it's just on an aluminium tag. It's also pretty hard to verify the body belongs to the VIN tag (held in by two screws). There is suppos

So you're telling me you can build those fancy t-nuts but you can't figure out how to make another aluminium engine tag? LOL

It's not a south bend lathe but the USS Ling or Pampanito have their lathes sitting aft in tiny little hallways. I remember as a kid being shocked how little space there was on one of these subs.

I'm in DC. Big storm just ripped through here too. Power is still on so that is good. Hope you get yours up and running again. Daniel

Somewhere around here there is a how to on this. I used it when wiring my drum switch. Basically there is a start circuit and a run circuit. The run circuit never swaps neutral/hot. The start circuit

In addition to dovetails you could use a piece of 1/4" plywood with a narrower piece behind it and a screw or nail through the whole thing. If you don't have a way to cut the dovetails that would work

Agreed - and if you need technical help now and again reach out. My background is in IT and primarily protocol on the wire stuff. I'm guessing there are a few of us here who have tinkered. Daniel