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I'll have you know that I resemble that statement!
Geezer

What you had was a pressure limiter. It's job is to prevent blowing bubbles in your blood stream,should you bump the nozzle against your skin to shut off the flow. Your skin would not see the 150psi,...

Nice job there!!
If you drill, with a larger bit, up through the holes from the bottom to about a ¼" from the top, the pins can drop free instead of wedging after the first couple pins.

~Richard

A job done to perfection!! Step by step and a nice final product! Thank you!
~Richard
PS. I have done some Googling and found that the hardness of these and other items like "all cast" anvils was...

Rob, that is a winning combination!

Ok, guys, my secret potion/remedy; or how to save a lot of experimentation:

The-Complete-Metalsmith-an-Illustrated-Handbook-Tim-McCreight

"'Tim McCreight...

I find uses for it often...I had a job for an antique store to refinish a 3 x 4 foot heavily engraved elliptical brass table from India. I made a hand held High speed buffer from a HF small trim...

Some are and some are not, read the ad blurb online carefully.
~Richard
By the way, if you have a Harbor Freight router cord type inline speed control, they work with most any brush type universal...

To get sorta back on to the tools track, these straight line power tools are great for blades and some scales work::chapeau
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There is a Dremel equivalent. Both on the 'bay occasionally and at...

Poor children, I remember Mac & Don with one million sold.
~Richard

I believe Woolworth s started as a five and dime store. That would have been, in those days, analogous to our Dollar Stores as to buying power of the time.
Dollar stores here are all over the...

At the checkout counter:
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~Richard
PS a bit of time with automobile cleaner wax on the threaded portions is a win.

Dollar Stores have sets of small ½" x 1.5" colored canisters with screw on tops for a buck. OR they have lots of similar things.
~Richard

Here is a holder a buddy and I made and it uses rare earth magnets in the block fairly close to the spine stop. The main thing is the deep slots which allow work on the spine with less...

Heat wave here...-14C now to -21C by morning. And up to a 40MPH. 6oKph wind
~Richard

With some polishing work on the ball end they are great hammers for our work! Light enough to do the job safely and heavy enough to do it quickly. One of the guys wrapped the handle in a few layers...

Almost all my tools are modified or worn to my hand.
Here are some for you to make work at a low cost. A few re purposed tools here:
If it works for Ma's fingernails, it works for razors! Add pipe...