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Don Foreman
 
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Default A little metal crank

On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 17:14:12 GMT, Ignoramus13782
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On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 00:41:52 -0600, Don Foreman wrote:

I made a little metal crank to replace a broken one on a lathe.

http://users.goldengate.net/~dforeman/crank/


Don, very nice. How did you nickel plate them?

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I used Caswell's nickel-plating chemicals and nickel anode at 50 mA
per square inch of workpiece. The stuff looks a bit pricey, but it
seems to last forever. I've been using this same batch for at least
7 years.