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a1gutterman wrote:I understand that Boeing uses ice pellets.

One uses what one has an abundance of!:D

Makes for simpler clean up of abrasive!

When you press the power button, does windows manage the shutdown process (i.e. say that it is shutting down?) AND, when you start you computer later, does the computer go right to the desktop OR does it say windows didn't shutdown normally and give you some startup options? Depends upon what you h...

[quote="nomoman"]Maybe I didn't explain it right. Some one told me, when I got done with the computer for the night] You should stop windows as you have described. Shut down wiil power off or tell you when to. Hibernate - same answer. Not sure of the terminology/names of the functions, but...

When shutting down a PC for the night. Is it better to put it to "sleep", "hibernate/stand by" or "shut off"? I heard you should not use the power button to turn off the PC. Only if you have to reboot it. But then again isn't there a reboot button? Power down only afte...

mickyd wrote:DELETE E:*.* will get it done in about 2 minutes.

So will [format e:]! followed by [yes]

IF steel, try electrolysis like ya did the chuck. Maybe the reaction will clean the innards. Move the pins to one side before hand. Evaporust might also work.

Post processing, wd40/wax after cleaning the blox off it.

mickyd wrote:Boy, where were all you guys when I was a teenager facing all those big life decisions. I probably wouldn't have had to wait until I was 35 to get married for the first time!! I would have known how to hook 'em for good vs. play catch and release much sooner:D .

Who caught whom??????:D

With fluid dynamics, there's a bunch more stuff that would need to come into this picture too to fully describe the "best" abrasion method.... Depends how far you gave to particles to reach speed (to just name a single variable). :D p.s. shot peen was an illustration to a point , not my c...

Maybe, just maybe, these post from the thread "I am a PROUD new father" which have now leaked over here (rightly so) into potpourri will make sense...... Wait a minute. You said I thought wife came from three countries. "We" aren't half wrong, you are all wrong....) You lost you...

It's a bear to mount the tool rest? I actually know someone who uses this set up for sanding things to shape... 'no reason to use sharp tools for stock removal when sandpaper will work'.... Ed Could become a 2 person work station - one turning, one finishing with sand paper! HEY mike that is how yo...