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I thing irondragonforge also use a flywheel as a base. I have a square tube 100x100x1,5 mm on an octagon steel plate (diameter 800mm, thickness 8mm), placed offcenter so i can stand on the plate. Filled the tube with sand/dirt/floor sweepings because it moved a bit to much to my liking. The extra weight helped. My floor is not flat so yeah. Can be wobly from time to time ( and spot to spot)

Subtitels has more to do with the soundediting than with your hearing. On youtube you can find smarter people than me explaining it nice.

Depends. I used them in the field to replace hoses on escavators with assistance of a technician of the company I worked for. If you use the bigger service clubs, they like to change only the hoses and connections. Removing and installing is your fun. But some remove motors, rams, ... and take to workshop for repairs.

We have these a lot. But for bigger connections better call the guys to make sure they have enough hose with them. I think almost all hydraulic shops have at least one van with the whole set in it.

There is a reason why most hydraulic guys I know drive around with a van full of little boxes for all the connections. Crazy sometimes.

Steve, thanks for the explanation.

And stupid question maybe, but what is the reason behind the no to commercial links?

Blue that is something not only in machining but more general. They need button pushers in larger quantities and a small group of smart people. The last group lives in an computerized world detached from the rest of the world, only ease of manufacturer and easy to use the final product for the endconsumer. So you get weird designs on stuff, hard to maintain. And the maintenance guy needs to be more and more skilled and smarter to fix those thinks. Or stuff gets made as throw-away. I have worked many years in repair business and the button pushers are useless, because they can't or won't think. And the smart people are not hands on to see a problem and fix it, they want to replace.

Google translate does a good job. I understand french when spoken and can speak. But writing and reading is something else. Google translate is as good (as long as the sentence you start from is a proper sentence)

Ha thanks. Be carefull aboit your excessive quoting! And than it goes good for a few weeks

Cool thanks.

Maybe. There is a german and an english fellow member. Both of the bothy club (crazy scottish pipesmoking club). Try it. You will know my name there. Pijprokersforum.be (if not allowed mod, how many points before I'm kicked?)

Ah ok, like Poz tongs.

Better learn dutch for that one

I smoke a couple of years pipe. I like virginia's, vaper and vabur. Also some oriental is never a bad thing Latakia is for me autum, winter. Viginias and semois summertime. More a fan of the unflavered or light aromatics. Have an old stock of tabaco from 2015 when i bought a lot. Still some dunhills from when they stopped. Almost always have something of MacBarren open, navy flake or now scottish mixture. Also brown sugar flakes from gatwick. A one of they did in 2014. Very nice! And dunhill london mixture Not a big smoker. I think 2 or 3 tins yearly. Pipes almost all estates. Cheapies. Also some good new ones. Yearpipes of a pipesmokersforum (there is another member here also a member there). Around 12 pipes or so. New one comming with christmas (prf pipe) At this moment i have 2 broken mounthpieces and one i think is broken but i don't see it. All of them eboniet and all minimum 50 years old. Mostly billards, canadians, ... straith pipes. I have a couple of bent ones as well. But the tabaccoprices will hike in Belgium next year, so time to go shopping and storing again. Before they stop importing some brands I have to travel for.

So whatcha smoking? You have many pipes? Too windy here (storm Ciaran is passing today) to even think about lighting one.

Parkinson tongs? They are a bit shacky? But a serieus question now, what are they?

It all depends what you want as well. As a maker and a consumer (or your type of consumer). You have people who really like to enjoy and take the max out of the steel in terms of hardness, toughness, ... and invest in a good heat treatmentoven, special oils, ... And you have people who takes it a good enough level. Yes the steel could be harder, tougher, flexible, ... but it is consistance and easy to achieve in their shop. So that also affects the info you recieve and want to recieve.

Thanks. My previous company had a sistercompagny a machineshop. They had trouble finding people as well. But new managment put an end to that shop in 2 years. Lucky there are plenty machineshops in the area so those people didn't stay jobless for long.

That is good. They know what is making them money. Not the machines, but the people at the machines. And they also know that thoae specialist people are hard to find and train To many shops are run by managers who only stay max 5 years. Otherwise they have to deal with their own created mess, but a new manager from managingschool is ready to reform and blame his predecessor, to do the same 3-4-max 5 years later. They don't know, there excell sheet is telling them, they can safe 0,50 cents so they do it. It is less good, that it is affecting your job. Hope it will get better soon. We in the EU are always hearing that in the US the economy is all doing better. But i think it is only the big multi milion compagnies

Good luck man. All the best. Hope the treatment works and you don't get to sick of it.

you have a tiny bottle of beer rrhet

That will not happen. Also don't like basket twist handles, they look old in my eyes. (But will have to make them at my forge lessions). My small forge will not get to welding heat. Tried to, when making a handrake, but nope. The steel stays white yellow, but did not get sticky. Welded that one together with the welder. Is ugly as hell yet, have to make that one still a lot nicer But a twist, probably a cubetwist or a pinapple twist is a good idea. But with rivets (what i want to avoid in the first place). Thanks Iron, but since typing this, both handles will be a twist and will look like a set. You set the ball in motion.

Making a garden trowel. Not happy how the handle came out, will chop it off and make another one that i rivet into place. I want to avoid wood as a handle since I cannot turn it. No idea what i want instead.

sch 80? you work in the shipping industrie? Need to make a cable support, better take a strip of 10mm thick instead of 6mm, it are 2 cables going to 2 different lighting fixtures. But even there we made the railings out of sch 40.