Found Dreaming

The new BYMC forums are up at http://www.alloyavenue.com/vb/forum.php, the usernames and passwords have been preserved.

You need to be careful with acid based drain cleaners, they often have other ingredients in them that may have a negative impact on the anodizing process, fresh battery acid on the other hand is just sulfuric acid and water plus, I doubt you could beat the price. But you're right about the lye, it's...

If you happen to have a friend that's an auto mechanic, have him get some battery acid for you, he can get it no questions asked, it's cheap too I think I paid $12 for 20L. Normal battery acid needs to be cut with equal quantities of distilled water. You don't need sodium hydroxide unless you want t...

Along those same lines, I too am wondering what the tool life is like only not the bearings but the cutters, there's no way of protecting them from the abrasive effects of the sand, they must get dull rather quickly

That sounds promising!

Nevertheless, I find it so curious and more than a little off putting the way Lio's kept everyone including Anon out of the loop, a single posting by Lio on the forums or, an email to Anon, explaining what's going to happen and when, is all the was required.

I've seen that already.

FWIW, the main BYMC site is still up just the forums are dow.n