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Re: What's the tightest thing that you regularly do in your steam hobby?
« Reply #30 on: February 16, 2021, 11:56:39 pm »
Quote from: Nick on February 16, 2021, 11:35:10 pm
Jim, have you started saving your swarf to melt down and re-use?

There's a metal recycler in the town an hours drive North of me. About once a year I take it to them and all the little offcuts etc.....last time was about $300

I've watched countless YT vids of blokes building DIY furnaces to melt down there ali and brass. I'd really like to do it, but it looks pretty involved.

I have a little Lee electric lead melter that has a lever and you put the .44 cal round ball mould up to it and pull the lever up and fill the two cavities in the mould. That's about my experience with molten metal :)
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Re: What's the tightest thing that you regularly do in your steam hobby?
« Reply #31 on: February 17, 2021, 01:39:20 am »
How tight am I ????
 Well no paper towels here . 
I use old bed sheets for rags first on engines when running then when grubby use then for engineering.
I am guilty 0f using reduced voltage .
Constantly scan TM for started and butchered castings ( to cheap to buy new and no challange )
Buy brass off TM clearance lots that might be useful ?? ( yeah right ) 
Recently got 4 X 2 meter lengths of LG2 leaded bronze  1 1/2 inch OD by 3/4 inch ID 

Buy crappy broken engine to rebuild .

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Re: What's the tightest thing that you regularly do in your steam hobby?
« Reply #32 on: February 17, 2021, 07:43:11 am »
Dennis, you’re so cheap you build your replicas in miniature to save on material  ;) 😂
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Re: What's the tightest thing that you regularly do in your steam hobby?
« Reply #33 on: February 17, 2021, 10:07:51 am »
Quote from: Nick on February 17, 2021, 07:43:11 am
Dennis, you’re so cheap you build your replicas in miniature to save on material  ;) 😂

I think you might have got me there . Well done .

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Re: What's the tightest thing that you regularly do in your steam hobby?
« Reply #34 on: February 17, 2021, 03:32:07 pm »
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Dennis, you’re so cheap you build your replicas in miniature to save on material  ;) 😂

LOL  :)
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Re: What's the tightest thing that you regularly do in your steam hobby?
« Reply #35 on: February 17, 2021, 05:13:57 pm »
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Quote from: Nick on February 17, 2021, 07:43:11 am
Dennis, you’re so cheap you build your replicas in miniature to save on material  ;) 😂

LOL  :)

I was thinking Jim . Who buys the miniatures ?

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Re: What's the tightest thing that you regularly do in your steam hobby?
« Reply #36 on: February 17, 2021, 05:26:16 pm »
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Quote from: Jim on February 17, 2021, 03:32:07 pm
Quote from: Nick on February 17, 2021, 07:43:11 am
Dennis, you’re so cheap you build your replicas in miniature to save on material  ;) 😂

LOL  :)

I was thinking Jim . Who buys the miniatures ?

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I was thinking they should come with a matching miniature price tag  ;) 😂
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Re: What's the tightest thing that you regularly do in your steam hobby?
« Reply #37 on: February 17, 2021, 05:48:47 pm »
I do like my Scorpion2nz 'Cranko repro vertical' :)
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Re: What's the tightest thing that you regularly do in your steam hobby?
« Reply #38 on: February 18, 2021, 07:58:09 pm »
The tightest thing I do is, CLENCH MY TEETH! ;D
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Re: What's the tightest thing that you regularly do in your steam hobby?
« Reply #39 on: February 18, 2021, 08:11:43 pm »
Last couple of days I've been using my Lyman cartridge case tumbler to polish up small parts, working like a dream. Don't know why it never occurred to me before to use it.
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Re: What's the tightest thing that you regularly do in your steam hobby?
« Reply #40 on: February 19, 2021, 01:55:08 am »
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The tightest thing I do is, CLENCH MY TEETH! ;D
LOL !!!

Ditto  ;D
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Re: What's the tightest thing that you regularly do in your steam hobby?
« Reply #41 on: March 23, 2021, 09:38:54 am »
I have been known to use a single sheet of Bounty paper towel in my shop for up to a month or longer. Once it gets a little oil in it , it will continue to wipe oil and grease and does a great job picking up loose dust and dirt. The final wipe can lift a few fine metal chards of my lathe. Then... it is ready for the garbage bin!
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Re: What's the tightest thing that you regularly do in your steam hobby?
« Reply #42 on: March 06, 2022, 01:58:18 pm »
I think it is a good time to resurrect this thread after about a year.

We are experiencing a combination of inflation and shrinkflation due to the wuhan flu and our governments trying to snuff out fossil fuel.

Shrinkflation occurs when you pay the same or more for the same product but it is now of lesser quality and/or there is less of it.

Has anyone else noticed that quality and strength of bounty paper towels seems to have deteriorated..?

Are you getting less product for more $  ?

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Re: What's the tightest thing that you regularly do in your steam hobby?
« Reply #43 on: March 06, 2022, 03:29:11 pm »
Goodness YES, shrinkflation is rampant in nearly everything we buy & use these days. my darling granddaughters are avid girl scout members & of course we are obligated (Mamaw & Papaw) to buy more than a few Girl scout cookie boxes....there's a lot less than there used to be in a box & the price is growing nearly every year, I figured out Samoas ,13 cookies @ $5.00 , Wow $038.44 ea.
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Re: What's the tightest thing that you regularly do in your steam hobby?
« Reply #44 on: March 06, 2022, 05:25:37 pm »
This shrinkflation has been going on for quite a while. Mom's been gone for 2 1/2 years and I
can remember 4 years before that hearing about it from her. "Those dirty buggers, tuna, 5.5 oz.
per can. Used to be 6 oz. Recipes call for 6, now I have to open another can, bastards."  ::)
Poor old mom couldn't deviate from what was written down.
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