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My hardware supply is officially out of control and has been for some time. It started out is its original boxes somewhat organized by size in a punch card file cabinet, but after years of use, many of the boxes have broken open and dumped their contents in the bottom of the drawer to be mixed together. I finally had enough and picked up about 300 - 3" x 3" x 2" polyethylene cups form the Surplus Shed a while back and started sorting. So far I've got the #4's, #6's and #8's sorted out to the point where I can see what's missing and re-stock. The #10's are the worst, so that will be another day, but I'm finally getting a handle on it.
If you have the need and a cabinet that will hold them, the cups are still available. They are currently 25 cents ea, but the Shed has 1/2 off sales several times a year, so it might be worth waiting for it.
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Thanks for that Tom. I just ordered 144 of the cups. I don't have the cabinets you have to put them in but it's a start at organizing my hardware. Especially the smaller stuff.
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I think they will work out well. It will be nice to be able to remove the cup with the size fastener I need and take it to the job, and to be able to see all of the fasteners at a glance.
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what I've been working on since like the first of march, my little 22 RMF
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fired up the furnace today, need a backing plate for a 5C Collet Chuck that I was given, crucible is full of cut up cast iron.
Will post a photo of the part tomorrow sure hope the mold filled completely
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yesterdays casting.
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Looks good Dave - now let us see what you turn that into (pun intended).
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probably nothing, from the skim cut I did across the backside it looks like its going to have a bunch of slag inclusions in it probably from me pouring too slow.
But it turned out nice and soft, looks like I was spot on with the temp and such did have one little moment with the burner but all in all I would say a good pour. To get good machineable cast iron you have to really stay on top of your game.
The part is intended to be a backing plate for a 5C Collet Chuck that I was given/traded for some cad work.
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I made this today
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Pretty heavy duty tripod there Rob. Is that going to support anti-aircraft armament?
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