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Re: How to keep a freshman busy: an easy HOW-TO guide!

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Originally Posted by BrendanB View Post
Keeping the freshman busy is to have them cut drive shaft that has the special coating and the hard stuff, not soft. She got about 1/8 into it before I had to take over and I got another 1/8 into before I had to leave. We only have a hacksaw. And then they decided not to use it altogether so that was a waste of an evening for me but it was fun.

Sorting out the drill bits is another fun task!
I had to cut the hardened steel shaft of a cim last year with a dremel...I think I broke like 7 disks...
but it was necessary to the design of the cool helical gearbox I designed for our conveyor system...
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