Re: [Emc-users] Gib screw direction, various other subjects

2016-02-23 Thread Gregg Eshelman
On 2/23/2016 3:54 AM, andy pugh wrote: > I am talking about a single can of MAPP as a hotter alternative to > Butane or Profane. I suspect there was plenty of such language in Taiwan on the evening of July 31, 2014 when nearly 4 tons of propene that had leaked into the storm drains of

Re: [Emc-users] Gib screw direction, various other subjects

2016-02-23 Thread andy pugh
On 23 February 2016 at 09:59, Gene Heskett wrote: >> I would imagine that you can do it with the Bernz-o-matic, but you >> would need to be using MAPP gas and a firebrick hearth. > > Funny thing about mapp gas + the yellow oxygen, I bought 2 each and a > micro-torch, found the

Re: [Emc-users] Gib screw direction, various other subjects

2016-02-23 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 23 February 2016 04:21:11 andy pugh wrote: > On 23 February 2016 at 02:59, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I looked in the handbook, I made the cutter out of A2, which needs > > 1700-1800F for first heating, is air quenched, then annealed by > > bringing it back to around

Re: [Emc-users] Gib screw direction, various other subjects

2016-02-23 Thread andy pugh
On 23 February 2016 at 02:59, Gene Heskett wrote: > I looked in the handbook, I made the cutter out of A2, which needs > 1700-1800F for first heating, is air quenched, then annealed by bringing > it back to around 1300F but didn't see for how long, or what they call > an air

Re: [Emc-users] Gib screw direction, various other subjects

2016-02-22 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 22 February 2016 08:35:31 John Alexander Stewart wrote: > Gene; > > I have the Canadian equivalent of the G0704, CNCd, and I think the Y > gib goes to the back of the machine to tighten. I did go through the > exercise to adjust the ways, but it needs doing again, and, finding > out why