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Years ago, I was doing work in a steel mill that required all natural fiber clothing. Fortunately, there was a ‘manufacturers outlet’ type place nearby, that sold Wrangler jeans. They held up pretty well, and at $10 a pair, sometimes I had to decide if I was going to do laundry, or just buy...

I have only dealt with light spot / surface rust when cleaning cast iron cookware. Cleaned it up by scrubbing under warm water, or with household vinegar (5%), or citric acid, and some light scrubbing. In the Cast Iron Cookware thread on AS there were some comments that soaking CI in vinegar...

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(Might appeal more to slightly older members of this site). Philbert

I don’t file on any of my depth gauge tools. If the tool is soft, the file could damage it. If the tool is hard, it could wear the file faster . Place. Check. File. Philbert

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Links for these? Thanks! Philbert

Did Dolmar stop making them, due to competition from Tecomec? Phiu

‘Rather than relying on numerical scales, this gauge features a dial screw that allows you to make stepless adjustments to the filing angle—tailoring it to your specific feel and preference—while simultaneously visualizing and verifying the setting. The starting point is set at approximately 0.2...

Nice! Never seen one before. Philbert

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People often ask a dog, ‘Who’s a good boy?’, instead of just telling the dog, ‘Good boy!’ (or girl). Smokey has low self-esteem, so he ‘responds’ that it is another dog, ‘Max’, that is the good boy, rather than accepting it as praise. Philbert

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