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    One more bucket then we'll hand dig

    Was there any dirt in the bucket or was it just full of cables?
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    Truck Mount Vise Lubricant?

    I got a can of spray on moly based lube from McMaster to use on a couple rack-and-pinions under a table saw, and NOTHING sticks to it, not even that super-fine MDF dust. Not sure how it handles water though.
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    telescopic tracked telehandler

    Telehandlers are often used on construction sites to move things from A to B, and a tracked telehandler is going to be much slower, plus the shorter "wheelbase" would reduce its lifting capacity, which really matters at full extension. I can see them being useful on a particularly muddy site...
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    How stupid is this

    John C. I believe hetkind is referring to a specific incident. If I recall correctly there was an oil refinery explosion that was ultimately traced to a vent stack which, due to a cacophony of errors, overflowed with liquid gasoline and its vapors, and quickly found an idling pickup truck as an...
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    Fatal Forklift Accident

    Yeah you can build safeties into something all day, but at the end of that day you're going to have an overpriced useless machine. You have to draw the line somewhere, we all trust the wood that holds our houses up, and the light switches not to electrocute us, or our cars not to smash us into...
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    What could possibly happen...

    Were they though? Yeah, that crowd was pretty far back, probably the line drawn when they tried to blast it, but then we get videos like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBi-y9gV0CA, and that was just a 3 story wall.
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    London crane/helicopter accident

    "those guys bring a slightly different perspective to the discussion than we would." Well you know these stupid construction workers are always getting in the way, he probably swung the crane around aiming for that brave pilot. Sorry about that. I looked it up on google maps, and that site is...
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    What is hard or costly to fix on forklift

    Speaking from my experience at a big box store this is the number one thing to avoid. We had a stand up reach truck with one of those handles that has all the controls built in, throttle (it was electric but you know what I mean), lift, sideshift, tilt, pantograph, and horn all on the handle...
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    TIG Welding

    It's not that bad, just a couple things: Pre-heat; clean the joint thoroughly, aluminum likes to make aluminum oxide, which you may know as sand paper; and clean the slag off immediately, it's actually corrosive to aluminum (or at least the electrodes the shop near me had, maybe there are some...
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    TIG Welding

    I've never TIG welded, I'd like to get into it but paying for college and buying a TIG welder do not mix, but I have some aluminum and stainless steel stick electrodes that I've used a couple times. Not sure I would trust either for structure, but they make a pretty nice looking joint. Not...
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    Forklift Servicing

    When I worked at a certain large orange box we had annual service checks from our dealer, basically the daily safety inspections we did plus check the fluids and check the computer for any error codes it had logged since last time. Batteries were leased separately so they didn't check them at...
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    Preventing Rust on load bearing surfaces

    I looked into a local shop Ronsii, and they want over a hundred bucks to make all 24, understandable, so I've decided I'm just going to live with it, maybe as you said hit it with some wd40 occasionally, and on mark two sometime in the future, I'll look into more expensive long term solutions...
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    Preventing Rust on load bearing surfaces

    I have, and I'm ordering a few parts from McMaster, such as ACME lead screws, but stainless steel bearings are 32 bucks a pop, and I need 24 of them. I'm trying to keep this super cheap, and that more than quadruples the cost of my hardware. I'm getting a few acetal bearings w/ stainless balls...
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    bobcat oil

    (which is a telehandler) My experience with Bobcat has been that, despite all the hoopla about easy service, they REALLY want you to bring it back to them for service, and the harder they can make it for you to do more than daily maintenance, the better. A quick poke about their website shows...
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    Preventing Rust on load bearing surfaces

    As a side project, I'm currently in the process of building a CNC machine, and one of my major concerns is rust forming on the guide bearings. These bearings serve as wheels, with their ODs running on an aluminum rail. Now, since the bearing is rolling along this rail, I'm not sure that simply...
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