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I have a DRO on this machine, so the backsplash had to say goodbye.? I use a cookie sheet and a butchered cardboard box to catch the swarf.? It does keep the mess down.? When the box gets full,

I raised my mini lathe on 1 1/2 inch high blocks made from Trex and you could also use wood. The photo shows a slot I cut in the backsplash lower surface. Other lathe photos and drawings available on

I used a piece of scrap wood to move the splash plate about an inch farther away from the bed and bent some aluminum roof flashing to fill the resulting gap by the headstock.? There are no clearance

I removed my backsplash too, shortly after I got the lathe.? It was too annoying for me, and I don't want mounds of swarf collecting right there.? I let all the swarf get pushed off the back where

Same here.? ? I first made standoffs of 1.25 inch long small AL tubes, but later just relegated it to the pegboard. -- Lone Tree, Colorado? ?USA

When I found it getting in the way, I simply took it off & propped it against the wall behind the lathe. Roy

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A few times I have mentioned how the back splash on mini lathes doesn't really scale down well from larger lathes and makes things too crowded when trying to work around or clean the back side area of

I’m too lazy to look it up but there’s an arbitrary point, about 500C I think, that delineates soldering & brazing. Otherwise as said it’s just melting a filler material into the joint. Where

Just to add to point #3, the part needs to be hot enough to melt the solder. The iron or torch is used only to heat up the part, not melt the solder / braze / whatever. Please take note, YouTube

"Try melting a piece of it? Steel and Al have very different melting temps." Steel would be easy. He's trying to tell aluminum from magnesium. Mike Taglieri [email protected]> wrote:

Try melting a piece of it?? Steel and Al have very different melting temps.

There acid to test types metal I never worry about it unless I am? welding or foundry work. Stainless is a different story because you know if 400 type and if a magnet sticks then 400 most machines

I don't have one of these tabletops, but I had a thought. A cell phone has a polarizing filter. Would that also show the effect? [email protected]> wrote:

It isn't absolutely necessary to use two polarizers, if you have a pair of polarizing sunglasses.? Indirect light from the sky on a clear day is partially polarized, so just put them on and look at

Dear Roy, Many thanks for the Maltese pattern detection method for tempered glass. Regards, David (nr. Oxford, UK)

Aluminum will react with a strong base, ferrous metals won't. Probably the easiest to obtain is a drain cleaner; the kind you want will contain either sodium or potassium hydroxide. You'll probably

If you have concentrated nitric acid, that won't harm aluminum but will attack most other metals, including magnesium. Also, shaving of magnesium will burn brilliantly. (That's how they made

Perhaps Archimedes could assist.

There are some chemical ways to test aluminum but require strong chemicals.? Calculating the density is a much safer way to go.