Homemade tools

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Rex
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Homemade tools

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Have you guys seen this site?

It's grown a lot since it first went up. lots of metalworking.

http://www.homemadetools.net/machining
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Hi Rex, I hadn't seen it; looks good. Thanks for posting it. Regards, Earl
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Rex,

GREAT FIND.. 8)

Thanks for sharing.

Ken. :)
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I later realized it's a compilation of links, many of them to this and other forums.
I still saw some threads I had missed, or forgotten.
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Yea Rex, your right it grew a lot in the past couple of weeks, seems like there were only a handful of tools on it the last time I looked. Too bad they don't go into a little more detail.
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I found the homemade table drive for my drill/mill that I sold almost two years ago on that site. I did not post it there. It is on my own web site. Someone is loading it up.
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That seems to be the way with public info or pics. Interesting times.
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