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Here are some 1" diameter tubes I bent on Friday coming out of the oven this morning. I had 2 crack from strain so ill repair them and aneal them again.

 

How are you going repair those tubes?

 

Hopefully better than I did when I broke my wife’s favorite butter dish a while back.
If you’re looking for suggestions, I would not recommend Gorilla Glue.

How do you bend those and not have them collapse?

 

I broke a dish that belonged to my wife’s grandma. I didn’t try to repair it. I still feel bad about that

 

The cracks are small so ill just heat up the cracked area slowly and they will most likely seal themselves up. This tubing is thick walled and that makes sealing the cracks more successful, thinner walled glass will just distort as you heat it enough to seal the crack.

 

I put corks in both ends, one with an air hose and after I bend it I blow the collapsed areas back out.

 

That’s awesome! Such a simple solution.
Thanks for sharing!

 

I got to finish this bolt. It’s M24 x 3 thread with a 35.5 mm square head

 

As I'm sure you guys know the solutions are often really simple but it does take skill and experience to deploy them. You can rapidly take something from needing repair to needing to be thrown in the dumpster lol.

 

So true! That goes for any job, especially in the kitchen

 

If eggs dont peel right it makes me want to stab someone, usually they get crushed and thrown in trash!

 

35.5mm head to fit a 36mm 4pt socket?

 

It goes in a tail stock on a lathe, for one of our customers who is another machine shop, go figure.

 

Where? I can't imagine where it would go at on a tailstock...

 

Some big chunks of 304 going through the shop today.

 

It looks like something to hold 8 tracks.

 

Oh boy are you gonna enjoy this legendary thread then:

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/quite-the-misnomer.40765/

 

It goes on their lathe with a 20’ bed, it’s large. It’s the bolt that goes from top to bottom to lock it.

 

Oh. I thought all tailstocks were cam/friction locked.