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		BUILD YOUR OWN HEIGHT GAGE. You can make an inexpensive height gage with an old caliper (a dial caliper would be nice). All you have to do is mount your caliper to a peace of flat stock. You don't have to make holes in your caliper, just set three screws in a pattern that will hole the caliber ridged. You can use thumb screws so that the caliper is removable for other work. If you lean the caliper slightly towards your work, the top prong will work as your scribe. Measure the distance from the bottom of the flat stock and the zero setting on the caliper and add this number to the setting you put on the caliper and you've got it! The caliper I used was an extra one so I silver soldered a scribe holder to it.
		RUST REMOVAL WITH MOLASSES. The benefit of using molasses, to remove rust, is that it will dissolve deep rust that a steel brush can not get and save you the high cost of sandblasting. Molasses will not remove good steel or paint, just rust! I have heard of mixes as week as 1:20 and as strong as 1:4. I think a mixture of one part molasses to seven parts water is good. Some will argue that 1:10 is better. If you go to a feed store you can buy 50 lbs of Feed grade Molasses for under $20.00. How big a part you can de-rust depends on how big a tub you can find (how about a Doughboy pool). Put your mix in a plastic container and partly cover to slow down evaporation. Let it stand for two to three weeks until it ferments. Clean the skin of the top and you are ready to dunk some parts. Use rubber glove's because you have just made a vat of ACETIC ACID. Depending on how bad the rust is it can take two days to two weeks. When you remove your part wash it off with a stiff brush and water. The part will start to rust again so prim or oil right away - GOOD LUCK!

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