- 241. Re: [Shop-talk] Tabbed axle washers (score: 1)
- Author: "Karl Vacek" <kvacek@ameritech.net>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:58:23 -0500
- Yup - that's what I initially was going to do, and what I'll probably do. I just couldn't believe it would be so difficult to buy tabbed axle washers from stock in any FLAPS. Karl ___________________
- /html/shop-talk/2008-07/msg00089.html (7,994 bytes)
- 242. Re: [Shop-talk] Machine Screw shopper needed (score: 1)
- Author: "Karl Vacek" <kvacek@ameritech.net>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:17:47 -0500
- Here for one -- I Googled on: stainless machine screw "oval head" "5/16-24" NFI Karl _______________________________________________ Support Team.Net http://www.team.net/donate.html Shop-talk mailing
- /html/shop-talk/2008-07/msg00092.html (8,630 bytes)
- 243. Re: [Shop-talk] Lamp question (score: 1)
- Author: "Karl Vacek" <kvacek@ameritech.net>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:11:43 -0500
- Lamps usually use a running pipe thread, like the 1/8" Iron Pipe (that's what the IP stands for) that is most typical today. What you had sounds like it *might* be 1/4" pipe. it has a major diameter
- /html/shop-talk/2008-07/msg00104.html (9,766 bytes)
- 244. Re: [Shop-talk] Pole barn and deck footers (score: 1)
- Author: "Karl Vacek" <kvacek@ameritech.net>
- Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 17:12:21 -0500
- Whatever you do about footings, don't omit a good vapor barrier. Storing anything in an enclosed building with a stone floor and no vapor barrier is asking for rust. Especially only 2 feet above the
- /html/shop-talk/2008-08/msg00015.html (7,922 bytes)
- 245. Re: [Shop-talk] engine rebuild (score: 1)
- Author: "Karl Vacek" <kvacek@ameritech.net>
- Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 18:27:12 -0500
- To add to what Eric said, get a friend who's done an engine or two (or twenty) to give you some moral support. Someone to stop by and look and give you the confidence that all is going well, that it'
- /html/shop-talk/2008-08/msg00018.html (8,008 bytes)
- 246. Re: [Shop-talk] engine rebuild (score: 1)
- Author: "Karl Vacek" <kvacek@ameritech.net>
- Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 11:15:58 -0500
- If you're pretty sure everything is OK but just want a double-check, or to check bearings in an assesmbled and installed engine, Plasti-Gage is pretty reliable. If you haven't used it, it's a thin pl
- /html/shop-talk/2008-08/msg00031.html (9,016 bytes)
- 247. Re: [Shop-talk] How to remove surface rust over entire car? (score: 1)
- Author: "Karl Vacek" <kvacek@ameritech.net>
- Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 11:02:55 -0500
- If the rust is too much for plain conversion coating, go to Home Depot, etc. & buy a gallon of phosphoric acid, dilute minimally as directed, and bruch it on repeatedly. Scotch-Brite helps in the pr
- /html/shop-talk/2008-08/msg00044.html (9,360 bytes)
- 248. Re: [Shop-talk] How to remove surface rust over entire car? (score: 1)
- Author: "Karl Vacek" <kvacek@ameritech.net>
- Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2008 15:04:56 -0500
- Then dipping might be good. You drop off, pay, and pick up. Redi-Strip is nationally known and I hope OK today (they ruined the wood in my Model T body 32 years ago so I'd never return), but they're
- /html/shop-talk/2008-08/msg00049.html (9,825 bytes)
- 249. [Shop-talk] OT - Java is sloooow (score: 1)
- Author: "Karl Vacek" <kvacek@ameritech.net>
- Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:27:38 -0500
- OK, since we're on computers, I have a real problem with Java applications. Anything written in Java takes forever to load, and boy am I sick of seeing their stupid little coffee cup for minutes at a
- /html/shop-talk/2008-08/msg00093.html (8,212 bytes)
- 250. Re: [Shop-talk] OT - Java is sloooow (score: 1)
- Author: "Karl Vacek" <kvacek@ameritech.net>
- Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:29:20 -0500
- The same thing happens on the 2GHz P4 I built 2 years ago. The slowness is in the initial Java start-up, which takes under a minute usually, but on some websites several minutes (really). Booting of
- /html/shop-talk/2008-08/msg00098.html (11,942 bytes)
- 251. Re: [Shop-talk] OT - Java is sloooow (score: 1)
- Author: "Karl Vacek" <kvacek@ameritech.net>
- Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:48:23 -0500
- Actually, I "downgraded" to Win2K when I got this machine, as it came with XP Home. I had had a series of warrantee repairs with my previous Dell and they finally sent me this machine that was a mode
- /html/shop-talk/2008-08/msg00099.html (11,041 bytes)
- 252. Re: [Shop-talk] OT - Java is sloooow (score: 1)
- Author: "Karl Vacek" <kvacek@ameritech.net>
- Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:02:20 -0500
- Here's the NWS site I visit whenever I want real-time local radar. Once it's running, downloading new maps for a different area, different view, etc., still takes some time, particularly when looping
- /html/shop-talk/2008-08/msg00101.html (8,813 bytes)
- 253. Re: [Shop-talk] Liquid paint stripper? (score: 1)
- Author: "Karl Vacek" <kvacek@ameritech.net>
- Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:29:37 -0500
- The really nasty (but unfortunately effective too) ingredient isn't MEK (methyl ethyl ketone), it's methylene chloride. Been identified as a potent carcinogen for decades. 3M makes a product called "
- /html/shop-talk/2008-08/msg00107.html (8,502 bytes)
- 254. Re: [Shop-talk] MIG Welders (score: 1)
- Author: "Karl Vacek" <kvacek@ameritech.net>
- Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:50:00 -0500
- Actually, Hobart was an old welding-machine manufacturer bought by Miller about 10 years ago (as I recall). Miller now tends to sell similar models as Hobart, ofter with a feature or two left off fro
- /html/shop-talk/2008-08/msg00119.html (11,148 bytes)
- 255. Re: [Shop-talk] MIG Welders (score: 1)
- Author: "Karl Vacek" <kvacek@ameritech.net>
- Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:10:00 -0500
- Sorry - let's try it in English this time... Miller now sells some of their models under the Hobart name, but the lesser-priced Hobart model ofter lacks a feature or two that the corresponding Mille
- /html/shop-talk/2008-08/msg00120.html (7,342 bytes)
- 256. Re: [Shop-talk] HB drill press (score: 1)
- Author: "Karl Vacek" <kvacek@ameritech.net>
- Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:44:51 -0500
- The quill _______________________________________________ Support Team.Net http://www.team.net/donate.html Shop-talk mailing list http://autox.team.net/mailman/listinfo/shop-talk http://www.team.net/
- /html/shop-talk/2008-08/msg00191.html (7,607 bytes)
- 257. Re: [Shop-talk] No shop this weekend, kitchen remodel instead (score: 1)
- Author: "Karl Vacek" <kvacek@ameritech.net>
- Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:59:54 -0500
- If you scribe (deeply - you actually want to score it) right on the cut line, then cut with your saw (or router or whatever) just on the inside (scrap side) of the score, any chips will stop at the s
- /html/shop-talk/2008-08/msg00203.html (8,866 bytes)
- 258. Re: [Shop-talk] laminate cutter (score: 1)
- Author: "Karl Vacek" <kvacek@ameritech.net>
- Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:54:03 -0500
- You certainly could. It cost about a buck over 30 years ago, and has a nice dipped plastic handle, but if I lost it I'd make another one. _______________________________________________ Support Team.
- /html/shop-talk/2008-08/msg00205.html (7,357 bytes)
- 259. Re: [Shop-talk] Quality Ratchets (score: 1)
- Author: "Karl Vacek" <kvacek@ameritech.net>
- Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:10:51 -0500
- SK stuff is still good. It's actually made by SK, (I think it's still made here in Chicago - at least their factory is still there) not some unknown private-label factory like the place Craftsman stu
- /html/shop-talk/2008-08/msg00237.html (8,925 bytes)
- 260. Re: [Shop-talk] Levels (score: 1)
- Author: "Karl Vacek" <kvacek@ameritech.net>
- Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 14:09:05 -0500
- You're a brave man, posting this kind of thing here. I'm amazed you haven't already been taken to task and told that Horrible Freight has a Chinese level in genuine plastic for $1.99, and it works j
- /html/shop-talk/2008-09/msg00149.html (8,519 bytes)
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