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Absolute best way to remove rust imo is with those little wire brushes you can get for use in power drills in an air die grinder. Bought one to do the shock towers on my car because I already have my compressor, and the new tool novelty - and accompanying infectious grin - hasn't quite yet worn off
The thing that did make me wonder whether it was a capacitor or not was the fact that IIRC there were three or four leads coming out of it, so I couldn't be sure whether it was a capacitor or something else entirely. Never seen a cap with more than two terminals before.....
In an exploding footpedal is the capacitor often the culprit? I have a Jones Model 365 foreign that blew up under my foot a fair while ago that I'd love to get working again. I seem to remember that when afterwards I took the foot pedal apart what appeared to have let the magic smoke out was a...
The stuff I believe that you're looking for is waxed linen thread. Comes in a wide array of colours and is very strong. You can also buy just normal linen thread and wax it yourself with most any wax, although beeswax would be my wax of choice. Use saddle stitch for extra strength too.
If you lean the uprights out at the top as opposed to having them go vertically upwards, the hammock will be able to support more weight, as more of the force will be expressed as compression rather than shear force, and dimensional lumber is far stronger longitudinally than cross-sectionally.
Late evening photograph from the garden, I was amazed at how much light there was to be captured on a 10 second exposure, despite the fact that it was pitch black to the eye.
I thought I'd share the fruit of my labour this weekend just passed.
The knife has a ~55mm cutting edge, is made from an old Sheffield file and is a friction folder. The pivot and stop pins are 1/8" Brass Rod peened over into small counterbores and the lanyard hole is 1/4" Stainless...
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