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Throw a stone at any large gathering of makers, and you’re likely to hit somebody who owns a set of DIY-savant Dave Gingery’s classic books on building your own machine shop by casting scrap aluminum, melted in a charcoal-powered bucket furnace, into sand molds formed by wooden patterns.

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Les Coffey, owner of the Peerless Mills in Rossville, is accusing Rossville police chief Sid Adams of breaking and entering and for stealing property at the mill.

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Les Coffey, owner of the Peerless Mills in Rossville, is accusing Rossville police chief Sid Adams of breaking and entering and for stealing property at the mill.

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Les Coffey, owner of the Peerless Mills in Rossville, is accusing Rossville police chief Sid Adams of breaking and entering and for stealing property at the mill.

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Les Coffey, owner of the Peerless Mills in Rossville, is accusing Rossville police chief Sid Adams of breaking and entering and for stealing property at the mill.

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Les Coffey, owner of the Peerless Mills in Rossville, is accusing Rossville police chief Sid Adams of breaking and entering and for stealing property at the mill.

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Les Coffey, owner of the Peerless Mills in Rossville, is accusing Rossville police chief Sid Adams of breaking and entering and for stealing property at the mill.

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You can’t buy gun screws at the hardware store and if you’re working with older firearms you may not be able to find them anywhere. Larry Potterfield, CEO and Founder of MidwayUSA, demonstrates the solution to this problem by fabricating a gun screw out of drill rod using a metal lathe and milling machine.
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Midwayusa Guns Screws Rifle Shotgun Pistol 
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Shows set up and machining of pipe in preparation for using a steady rest. Filmed in our shop Oct 2008. This is a project for my home–(Trying to keep the vehicles off my fence.) Keaton Morris assisted me, he is one of my machinist students. This VDO is a rare posting of advanced techniques. I will not be posting many of my advanced vdo’s– those are for vantech school use only. This VDO is here to entice those to become a machinist. Knowledge of Set up and operation is what makes machinists skilled and valuable. Before you comment, remember there are hundreds of different ways to do the same job. I always try to complete things with safety in mind. Keaton and many of my students are looking for careers in the metalworking field. Call me at the school for more information.
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Submitted By: Vantechmetalwork
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Vantechmetal Basso Metal Lathe Steady Rest Boring Bar Machining Machinist Welding Beginners Metalwork 
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