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I see George loaned you his giant penny, or did the elves just borrow it without permission?Don
Those three cannons on the turret / steam chest look like they could open fire on the hoist drum any moment! More great progress Chris!
Nice looking pipes, Chris!Did you silver solder all three of them at the same time? I've not had much luck with that. I have had better luck soldering things like that one at a time. But maybe its smaller than I'm thinking so they're really close together?Nice results, regardless!Kim
Re 3 pipes photo: NASA called and said they want their triplex nano photon wave guide back. They said they paid $1,200,000.00 to have it made. I told them you would likely do a second one for them for $1,199,990.00 if they asked nice. Re: shoulder screws - I like doing screws in batch mode too. Even if you make a few extra and you don't use them on the current project they always seem to come in handy for other projects, and for those, you've saved the setup time. (especially when you have the thread dia. just so and the die's running sweet!)
Up until my last build, I’ve always made my own bolts, studs, nuts, and washers. Well, I decided I would splurge and order a bag of 100 of bolts, nuts, and washers from 0-80 through 5-40 from AME . Awesome service, great looking products, but the $416 that showed up on the Amex bill, OMG, will definitely have me making them again when and if, I ever run out Cletus