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Working on a watch!

Been working on a new watch design (for me) which has proven quite challenging. I was breaking drills (.75mm) from putting too much pressure on them because of not being able to feel the quill! At $15.00 each they can get expensive after 5 or more 😳I finally broke down and used my sensitive drill attachment and fixed the issue. Drilled and tapped over 100 holes in the bracelet ...


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Thought someone might like this. I dug it out of the back of the garage recently. I found this engine in the fall of 2018, lying in a field and stuck. It had been removed from an African Queen-style wooden launch built in 1967. The engine was scratch-built to fit the launch, which by the previous fall had rotted away and been burned. I managed to retrieve the engine, the rudder...


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I'd like to get away from cloud storage like OneDrive. I've been thinking about setting up a file server at home but I'm a bit lost on how to approach this. I found some videos and it seems fairly easy to do via Windows but wondering if there are ways that are not tied to Windows. I'm willing to bet that someone in our crew has done this and has recommendations 🙂


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I have my esp32 dev boards flashed and working with my Tablet - it connects anyway. I spent the last two days using Fusion 360 electronics project design to reproduce Yuriy's schematic for the ESP32 scale adapter (https://www.touch...


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There is a king 12x36 lathe (KC 1236ML) on gov deals that has caught my eye. a tad on the small side but for what i do it'd be just perfect for the shop for now. buyer needs to remove it and its not close enough to feasibly use any of my own heavy machinery. Anyone got a suggestion or two? according to my research it weighs about 1100lbs. I can probably get it out of the buildin...


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