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I am in my third try learning Fusion 360. I have used Sketchup for years so I am familiar with the concepts. But the poor training videos for rank beginners turned me off and I found Fusion too confusing and complicated to understand. Fortunately I found the series of Fusion videos on You Tube...

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We will be moving to a retirement property soon and I am considering a miniature machine shop in a corner of the residence. No room for my present metal shop machines. In the eternal quest for a smaller lathe I came across this one from Little Machine Shop HiTorque 8.5x20 Bench Lathe, Deluxe...

Our Pastifarian sect has solved that problem by putting our pirate ship on wheels. We have also passed an edict that steam power is allowed. You forgot to mention that appropriate head gear, a colander, is required for all services. A local lad took his for a driver’s license photo and when they...

I remember watching a video of a foundry casting engine heads using lost foam. The foam patterns were very detailed. Fairly dense looking foam. The moulds were on a moving table that rotated back and forth while the pour was happening. I assume the agitation was intended to assist gas removal...

My original thought when seeing this tool was that it must be a jack screw from the lower right gravity deflector of an alien spacecraft but now I realize that despite the resemblance to a shoe tree it is obviously a runner adjuster from Santa’s sleigh. Merry Christmas and happy holidays.

I pushed our garage out 12’ at one end and built a heated shop. Unfortunately the big air compressor is in the unheated garage and won’t work well in winter. I have a small pancake compressor for air tools but it is too noisy to use for air in the shop. I would love a quiet compressor if such...

Engineers yes, cobblers no. The head in your first picture showing the two halves of the spreader is just like my friend’s tool. Looks like we have a match.

So the head would move forward and push the two halves of the wooden expander apart? The shaft must angle up to avoid the heel of the shoe. Not sure how that would work with this tool. What role does the winged travel nut play?

We thought of that but couldn’t see how it would work in a shoe. The T handle wouldn’t be part of a shoe tree. It would have to be something to push on the heel of the shoe as in the photo below.

A friend bought this at an auction thinking it was a clamp but it doesn’t clamp. The arrow shaped head is free to rotate. The T handle turns the shaft and the travel nut with the wings screws up and down the shaft. The wings are beveled on the inside surfaces. It seems like the head goes through...

Not clear on how that one works. Seems to be two bars in a parallelogram jig.

I am thinking about milling down the tall sides of this jig. It is designed for centre dilling pipe. I don't need to drill 6" sewer pipe so if I get the sides down so that the work is exposed it should be easier to get a clamp on the work. It wouldn't take much of a "V" to hold metal rod in the...

Definitely in my "must buy" list, which grows longer by the day. No easy way to bolt this setup down to the mill table that I can see. Have to use clamps? Also the space between the vertical clamps doesn't allow for centring the drill in the blocks. Hmmm.

I bought one of these jigs some time ago and dug it out recently to centre drill some steel rod. It is quite slick in terms of quickly centring the drill to the work but I find it impossible to hold the work. The tall sides of the jig make it hard to use a clamp. Hand holding is not an option on...

For the CPAP users you will probably need a humidifier if your unit doesn’t already have one built in. Mine didn’t and I had a raging dry throat in the morning. The humidifier was just a pan with a heater under it. Maybe you can use your vertical boiler. Plumb it in to the CPAP line with a...

I have had good success with my Crealty CR20. It has been a good machine to learn on. Simple to use. I have made every mistake in the book and it has been an interesting learning experience. I am very interested in the new generation of (cheap) resin printers. However the resin can be nasty...

Just got my email problem sorted out (blacklisted) so I am late to respond to this thread. The original problem, sudden lack of bed adhesion, is one I have experienced. My Crealty CR20 came with a standard build board and glue stick works well with that. However I tried glass plates and the...

Yes that’s my story. Actually I put it down when I got a beer out of the fridge.

The drive belt is wherever you picked something else up. It’s the packrat syndrome, you drop what you are carrying to pick something else up. I once tore the house and shop apart looking for a bearing housing that completely disappeared. I found it in the refrigerator.