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    Biggest Machining Mistakes

    I've got one from my days in a small job shop many moons ago. There was only one part that was scrapped and it wasn' t a high dollar loss, but what was significant was that there was a potential for a serious injury ( to me!!!) which luckily didn't happen. We had an order for a shaft (I forget...
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    saddle layout

    Thanks for the info, I'll check into one of those handbooks you mentioned. Regarding fabricating branches, this is not something I would consider "in service", since it is only serving as a gaurd rail to seperate a parking lot from another area. Besides, having the skill to build rather than...
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    saddle layout

    i have a small piping project involving several 90 deg. tee branches with 4 in. schedule 40 pipe. I have constructed a template with auto cad and transferred it to 1/16 in. garlock gasket mat'l. The template works great, but i was curious as to whether this technique is really practical...
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    I am pressing a 30 inch O.D. x 2.75

    i realize this is kinda late, but the question caught my attention.....i'm employed in a papermill and we routinely assemble parts similiar in shape and size to what you described. From my experience, seems that your amount of interference may be excessive. I don't know the length of your...

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