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"Nothing Too Strong Ever Broke": July 2015
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Nothing Too Strong Ever Broke". Ongoing journal of a life spent designing and building special tools, instruments and mechanical devices for the scientific, medical, metalworking and product development industries. Idea's turned into reality by the mechanical pursuits of Tom Lipton (OX). Sunday, July 26, 2015. 2015 Toolbox Giveaway Project. Loyal followers and viewers,. That is responsible for getting me involved in making videos about metalworking, craftsmanship and the trades. Keith accepts donations d...
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"Nothing Too Strong Ever Broke": July 2013
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Nothing Too Strong Ever Broke". Ongoing journal of a life spent designing and building special tools, instruments and mechanical devices for the scientific, medical, metalworking and product development industries. Idea's turned into reality by the mechanical pursuits of Tom Lipton (OX). Friday, July 26, 2013. Gloves in the machine shop. When I was an apprentice I got yelled at a few times for wearing gloves in a situation where it probably wasn't a great idea. Those old loud codgers were just trying...
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"Nothing Too Strong Ever Broke": November 2013
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Nothing Too Strong Ever Broke". Ongoing journal of a life spent designing and building special tools, instruments and mechanical devices for the scientific, medical, metalworking and product development industries. Idea's turned into reality by the mechanical pursuits of Tom Lipton (OX). Friday, November 1, 2013. The need for 127 divisions crops its head up when changing the gearing on a manual lathe to switch between inch and metric threading. As it turns out a factor of 127 happens to be 25.4 S...So no...
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"Nothing Too Strong Ever Broke": Tiny Drilling
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Nothing Too Strong Ever Broke". Ongoing journal of a life spent designing and building special tools, instruments and mechanical devices for the scientific, medical, metalworking and product development industries. Idea's turned into reality by the mechanical pursuits of Tom Lipton (OX). Sunday, October 13, 2013. The second part of the story gets even fuzzier. I have heard it told that the un-named American company had a rival or partner Swiss or German company that somehow hears about the new tiny A...
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"Nothing Too Strong Ever Broke": January 2013
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Nothing Too Strong Ever Broke". Ongoing journal of a life spent designing and building special tools, instruments and mechanical devices for the scientific, medical, metalworking and product development industries. Idea's turned into reality by the mechanical pursuits of Tom Lipton (OX). Tuesday, January 29, 2013. Temperatures which is around 4 Kelvin (-452 F). The structure that supports the wire during the test is called a probe. If we just took the room temperature probe 452 Kelvin and dropped...Here ...
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"Nothing Too Strong Ever Broke": May 2013
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Nothing Too Strong Ever Broke". Ongoing journal of a life spent designing and building special tools, instruments and mechanical devices for the scientific, medical, metalworking and product development industries. Idea's turned into reality by the mechanical pursuits of Tom Lipton (OX). Sunday, May 19, 2013. Simulated Dovetail Knurling Tool. Here is the knurling holder I was able to borrow. It fits an baby AXA sized tool post and my lathe uses the Conan arm breaking CXA size. Aloris in their wis...After...
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"Nothing Too Strong Ever Broke": Expensive espresso cup
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Nothing Too Strong Ever Broke". Ongoing journal of a life spent designing and building special tools, instruments and mechanical devices for the scientific, medical, metalworking and product development industries. Idea's turned into reality by the mechanical pursuits of Tom Lipton (OX). Friday, April 11, 2014. This is what I started with. Some sheet metal bits and a two different filler wires. What were looking at is a fairly large Platinum. I started by plannishing (smoothing by hammering) the body to ...
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"Nothing Too Strong Ever Broke": October 2013
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Nothing Too Strong Ever Broke". Ongoing journal of a life spent designing and building special tools, instruments and mechanical devices for the scientific, medical, metalworking and product development industries. Idea's turned into reality by the mechanical pursuits of Tom Lipton (OX). Sunday, October 13, 2013. The second part of the story gets even fuzzier. I have heard it told that the un-named American company had a rival or partner Swiss or German company that somehow hears about the new tiny A...
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"Nothing Too Strong Ever Broke": September 2013
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Nothing Too Strong Ever Broke". Ongoing journal of a life spent designing and building special tools, instruments and mechanical devices for the scientific, medical, metalworking and product development industries. Idea's turned into reality by the mechanical pursuits of Tom Lipton (OX). Tuesday, September 17, 2013. The first thing I noticed was the tailstock. What caught my attention was how massive it was. On closer inspection it has some very cool features. I always liked Monarchs dual feed lever setu...
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"Nothing Too Strong Ever Broke": Monarch Lathe Survey
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Nothing Too Strong Ever Broke". Ongoing journal of a life spent designing and building special tools, instruments and mechanical devices for the scientific, medical, metalworking and product development industries. Idea's turned into reality by the mechanical pursuits of Tom Lipton (OX). Tuesday, September 17, 2013. The first thing I noticed was the tailstock. What caught my attention was how massive it was. On closer inspection it has some very cool features. I always liked Monarchs dual feed lever setu...