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    Project optics

    You mean the fishing rods? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoHpFR3Qcuk The focusing flashlight optics are all over the market now. My email settings need updated here in this forum I guess as I just happened back through in sending a friend a little history. We'll see if I can straighten that up.
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    Project optics

    Here we are more than 15 years later with focusing LED flashlights at many retailers based on the same construction I was toying with. Like I could have defended a patent like this anyway or would have been willing to invest myself as deeply as some others have. I've built literally hundreds of...
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    US fast shipping source for copper beryllium conical springs?

    I can find copper beryllium conical springs outside the U.S. all day long but I'm trying to pull together a batch of product fairly quickly and my Googlefu is very weak I guess. Specs are not so finite. Under a half inch at the large OD Under a quarter inch at the small OD A half to 3/4" in...
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    shim for a 123a battery to fit a wider body?

    I know it's an old thread but the right sized o-rings are a cheap easy fix for diameter and a taller spring if needed.
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    Fake Ultrafire 18650 battery warning

    I just purchased some of the fakes off Ebay myself. I'm waiting for a reply from the seller. Glad I have other batteries on the way as back ups! These things won't even run an e-cigarette for 3 hours let alone the expected 17 or so hours. Mine have the fake logo and LC on the label not the AX...
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    I'll be milling soon!

    :wave: Wguiles, Very Cool. I pulled mine apart even before I turned it on just to make sure none of the horror stories were going to come to light. How did your machine look on the inside? I couldn't find a burr or a grain of sand in the thing and still have yet to put it back together. Yeah, so...
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    Where did all the oldtimers go.

    Almost warm enough here to break another fishing rod with the sturgeon. I got a new R and D model I'll be breaking in this year. You should see this thing, one rod builder that seen the blank in North Carolina said it was Magic. Screem drags and no snags!
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    I'll be milling soon!

    :wave: Wow how the format has changed here! That would have nothing to do with my mistaking the turning with milling but I have only proved once again I am human. Gadget the cowboys around here might get the wrong idea if I told them I was a chipmaker, they got plenty of those around here. I...
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    Where did all the oldtimers go.

    :wave: I thought people would be taking about how a fish had got the best of me by now. Still kicking here! Keepin it real Bright, Wylie
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    I'll be milling soon!

    :wave: It has been a while but I thought I would stop by and thank the folks that helped with the information on tooling and such I would need for a lathe. It still has all the yucky red stuff to be cleaned off, time is at a premium for me working six days a week and rebuilding my business...
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    If you had $1500.00 for a Lathe?

    wasabe64, I do plan on making a lot of my own tools and I have done so in the past. It really does feel good to say I made that and look what it made. I have slacked a little on the tool list and some of the parts lists I have going for some testing on a circuit I am most likely going to use in...
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    If you had $1500.00 for a Lathe?

    Sometimes I should just let things happen in there own time. Today I got an email back from an Enco Tech and it sounds as though an email is being put together for me that will have links to all of the tools I have listed in the email to them and the list above. I have made a list of...
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    If you had $1500.00 for a Lathe?

    After three emails (no answers) and one fax I have finally got an answer back from Enco (with questions ). I was trying to get some help after beginning to question my sanity again looking for tools that really know nothing about. I've been trying to do this as much as I can on my own but here I...
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    If you had $1500.00 for a Lathe?

    Thanks Wayne, That may just be a little more lathe then I will need. Yes, there is a lot of good information that the folks here have helped me with and I would like to thank them all. The Grizzly 9 X 20 has a spindle thread that the machine is not able to make threads for from what I...
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    If you had $1500.00 for a Lathe?

    Thanks Daniel, I think I seen the QCTPs as low as $80 as an option with a lathe somewhere but I am going to get free shipping so that will average the difference. I just thought that machine was pretty cool. It did meantion some manual stuff I thought. If it wasn't out of my budget I would put...
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