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  1. mitch

    Browning BL-92 in .44Mag Engravable?

    I didn't see any specific mention of Browning's lever actions in the archived list. thanks in advance!
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    Work holding with Cerro Safe type alloys.

    Martin Cruz Smith's, "Rose" is a very well-researched novel (as his tend to be) that involves coal mining in Victorian England. His descriptions of the mine left me wanting to go run out into the middle of a big field on a bright sunny day. An interesting factoid: Circa 1850 the two fastest...
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    Work holding with Cerro Safe type alloys.

    "It welded my screwdriver to the box, had to go turn it off anyway plus grind my screwdriver off." i've got one of those screwdrivers, too. the funny thing is, now it's got a tiny 'shark bite' arced out of the side of it that occasionally comes in handy for hooking a wire and pulling it...
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    Work holding with Cerro Safe type alloys.

    My grandfather was an industrial electrician on the REALLY BIG STUFF (hydro dams, etc.). He used to freak out my brother and me watching him work on regular house & vehicle wiring. He would be poking a screwdriver around in a junction box, sparks would be flying and he'd say, "Aw, that ain't...
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    Question: fusing gold to steel

    While probably not practical for anything more than tiny areas, has anybody tried experimenting with dissimilar metals with a laser welder? Can you fuse gold & steel? Is there a limit to how different the melting points, etc., can be?
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    Browning O/U side one

    well now we know why you haven't posted anything for awhile, Brian. you'll be back in another 6 months or a year? looking forward to seeing the whole thing!
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    Work holding with Cerro Safe type alloys.

    i didn't know they made any that melted that low. iirc, most of the alloys i've seen worked between about 155-170.
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    anybody know what this is

    "jewelry ring engraving machine device" huh. not sure how it's actually used, but apparently the tapered tube is a mandrel to hold a ring? so it seems it's just a fixture (and yeah, Monk's first post shows two units) for holding rings for engraving in another machine? another missing clue...
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    Work holding with Cerro Safe type alloys.

    Yes, but not in years. It's super-useful for some bizarrely shaped parts, but a major PITA to use. Done right, you'll never have a more solidly fixtured object, but so few things warrant the trouble. A few hints- Get an electric lead bullet casting pot and closely monitor the metal until it...
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    Announcement: 2019 Firearm Engravers Guild of America Award Winners

    i know you can get aftermarket parts to build carbines on Glock frames? on a related note, i just finished reading "GLOCK, the Rise of America's Gun", by Paul M. Barrett. a fascinating look at the history of how a guy who'd never built a pistol less than forty years ago came to dominate the...
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    anybody know what this is

    impossible to tell. in particular, are there TWO separate units, or is it two stages in a single mechanism? it appears the component on the right (and presumably the partially hidden one, too) swivel horizontally to feed or receive something to/from the other two components, which appear to...
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    Help, please: I am looking for any literature, drawings and manuals.

    http://cronite.com/
  13. mitch

    Machinist/Gunsmith Homemade ball vise questions

    thread is 1/2"-20 i may have T-slot dimensions around here somewhere, too.
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    Any script engravers on this forum?

    A lot of us do some script in the course of our duties, but Sam Alfano is probably the guy you're looking for...
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    1943 Copper penny...

    i'm thinking that given the massive metalworking skill set available on this forum, we could easily knock a few more undiscovered rare pennies. like a group project...
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    1943 Copper penny...

    ...expected to fetch $1.7 million at auction. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/01/09/rare-coin-found-pocket-change-could-sell-six-figures/2530599002/ Ok, gang, anybody else thinking the same thing I am?
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    Your PLEDGE MEMBERSHIP is much appreciated

    Hey, Sam, maybe you need to have an annual Pledge Drive Week, like PBS. You know, the week where they only run the programming anybody actually wants to watch, then it's back to the dull 'retrospectives', etc., as soon as their coffers are topped up? For a week the Cafe threads would be...
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    Hot Tip

    My vise is built from depleted uranium so it stays a little warm all the time. The faint glow also serves as a nitelight so I don't kick anything in the dark. I never planned on having kids anyway. :shock:
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    This happen to anybody else?

    funny you mention that. the last 'job' this happened on was supposed to be an inscription on an urn that was going to be buried.
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    This happen to anybody else?

    Probably a couple times a month I'll get a call from somebody local inquiring about getting some item engraved. Typically these are/would be small inscriptions on some sort of personal item and if a little back & forth determines it can probably be engraved by traditional means we make...

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