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Scraping an Ammco metal shaper counter-shaft base

One of my projects was to replace a worn counter shaft on my ammco metal shaper replace the babbit bearing with Bronze. A friend with a jig-bore machine the counter shaft for me in his jig-bore to fit the bushings. … Continue reading

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More on digital photo compression on Ubuntu Linux.

Ok… I was looking over my last post and it looks like I was coming off a bad week…. This week seems better but I’ve got some things piling up on my gtd list that I’ve been wanting to get … Continue reading

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Compressing Digital photos and Metal shaper woes

I love these blogs of people who have these perfect projects where everything works perfectly…. Well this ain’t one of those blogs….. I was mowing my lawn last Sunday with my recycled push-mower and a broke a roller bracket.  No … Continue reading

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Messing around with openGl

My little one has been asking me make her a computer game and  some toys out of plastic…  Can’t be wood or metal… Needs to be plastic. Hmmm. The computergame I think I can handle…. The toys out of plastic … Continue reading

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Trying to get my Nvidia Model P73 Geforce4 MX 420 to run on 8.04 Hardy Ubuntu

I found this link that got me going. http://www.thinkingserious.com/2008/04/19/fix-nvidia-drivers-after-hardy-heron-rc1-upgrade/ I tried envyNG  a go, and it worked to about but I was unable to enable the custom driver. I need to retrace some of my previous posts… Ok… Video card … Continue reading

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