LOL! 
. It's water cooled not water
pooled!, at least I hope so!

. I've had a hectic week, I had to go to hospital to have an X~ray taken of my jaw so I can have all my teeth pulled out!!

. I blame it on my American decendancy conflicting with my German surname while being English born. That or sleeping with my head under the pillow!, damn tooth fairy mugged me!!

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The block?: It's still working fine, I hav'nt had time to do anything to the block though, to try out improvement ideas. I'm interested on how well the base being thinner works out with your latest though...
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Of interest?:
I found a small circular saw blade magickly appeared in my toolbox the other day!(along with a brass barb with a 'jetted' bottom!), it's about 2' in diametre an produces an approx' 1mm wide cut!!. the only problem is it has a big hole in the middle for mounting(approx 1
CM). So a custom arbour is needed. Seeing that Dremel router gave me ideas

, now if we could get hold of some 5mm thick copper!...,,,
Laters Dudes

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