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JB Weld is rated for use up to 500F.

It may be different mud daubers mudding over each other's work.

They like the coolant drains on my tractors. They will also plug up small sockets.

NP317 wrote: ↑

Sat Nov 10, 2018 11:57 pm

Use high strength JB Weld to fill the old keyway.
~RN

Or machine a piece of keystock to mostly fill the hole with its surface flush with the good part of the shaft and JBWeld it in. That way the pulley hub wouldn't have to bear directly on the epoxy.

If you exapnd your map a bit you can include Northern Wisconsin.

With that much of the surface of the shaft gone the pulley might either ride cocked on the shaft or wobble.

One nice thing about saltpeter is that it doesn't leave a huge stump just below ground level, the way grinding does. One could combine the two: grind the stump down, haggle a cavity into it, fill the cavity with potassium nitrate, and cover with dirt. Deals with the immediate unsightliness problem ...

What did your kitchen smell like when you were done?

Correct, they won't spontaneously combust, but if the potassium nitrate is introduced well, what it will do is allow the remains of the tree, roots and all, to burn away. That's the idea behind its use. H My SIL has done this to tree stumps, but I have not because some of the stumps on my property ...

Boil it?

earlgo writes: > My favorite stupid thing is leaving the micrometers in a bolt box and then spending days off and on looking for it. I don't know how many times I've put myself in a state of frustration by putting something away in the wrong place. When I don't find it where it belongs my first reac...

With 30 pieces to do it is certainly worthwhile to make jigs and/or fixtures. I'd want to turn round parts in a single setup and square them up last. With the right fixture you could do ten at a time. Perhaps address the tearing problem with sacrificial fixtures. Do you have a grinder?

You'd need to box the part in the way you would if using glue or double-sided tape.