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  1. J

    Thread cutting & drilling lubricant

    Animal fats -- lard, beef tallow, sheep tallow, and goat tallow have all been used -- work well (and mixing in graphite powder makes 'em work even better, but at the cost of severe messiness). Animal fats have been used as cutting lube for centuries, although rarely used in commercial shops...
  2. J

    bushing removal 62 Dexta

    I have no knowledge of your machine's configuration or size, but I'll comment that I've used a cape chisel -- sometimes driven with a hand hammer, and other times with an air hammer -- to slit bushing walls for removal many times in the last half dozen decades. Edited to add that a half-round...
  3. J

    USA Tools

    J C Penney sourced sockets and drivers (ratchets, hinge handles, and so forth) from New Britain initially, and later from SK. New Britain marketed their premier tools under the brand names New Britain (primarily, if not exclusively through NAPA) and Blackhawk, and their economy tools...
  4. J

    Cub cadet 7305 wheel bolt pattern

    I've found it's much easier to measure outside-to-outside distance between a diametric pair of studs-or-bolt-holes and subtract the diameter of one stud-or-bolt-hole than it is to measure the distance between two estimated stud-or-hole centers.
  5. J

    USA Tools

    Not Plumb (of Philadelphia), but Plomb (of Los Angeles). After losing two lawsuits to Plumb, Plomb changed their name to Proto.
  6. J

    Pipe wrench question

    In my world, those wrenches are called "automobile wrenches", or more commonly "auto wrenches". A "monkey wrench is similar but has a hammer head on the opposite side of the fixed jaw.
  7. J

    Is it plumb or is it level

    Plunging the transit telescope to prolong a line should not be a one-and-done process, as achieving the desired result depends on either very accurate adjustment of the instrument and correct plumbing of the transit vertical axis. Ideally, the instrument vertical axis is plumbed using the...
  8. J

    Opinions Solicited

    A foot-operated power switch for a power saw of any sort might be reasonable as a 1) "dead man" switch that opens the power circuit unless the pedal is fully depressed, 2) the switch is mechanically guarded to minimize the potential of unintended closure, and 3) is in series with a conventional...
  9. J

    Grease

    Texasmark -- What part of what I said are you objecting to, and why? John
  10. J

    Grease

    Pretty much any grease having a National Lubricating Grease Institute (NLGI) rating "GC-LB" (chassis and wheel bearings respectively) should meet the need. Neither color nor additives -- graphite, "moly", PTFE and so forth -- are deciding factors.
  11. J

    Best Crowfoot wrenches for Hydraulic fittings?

    What wrench size and what drive size?
  12. J

    Auction find

    When I was in high school and my first couple of years in college, the holy grail of slide rules was considered to be the Keuffel + Esser Log-log Deci-Trig. I didn't care for straight slide rules, and used a circular slide rule that fit in my shirt pocket. It was in essence a stamped aluminum...
  13. J

    Ten

    You have a very sweet story. I pray that the Lord bless and protect you.
  14. J

    Drill Press chuck

    So which chuck did you get, and are you satisfied with its runout?
  15. J

    Scope

    From distant old memory, so take it with a proverbial dose of salt: The human eye can resolve roughly 1 inch at 100 yards under good conditions, with resolving ability decreasing as conditions worsen. If a tine is 1/2 inch diameter, it should be visible to the naked eye at 50 yards. Seeing...
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