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Dad was a machinist, we lived in Alaska about 40 miles from the nearest place to buy just about anything, so he made a lot of stuff from the junk around the property. Mom needed a meat tenderizer... he went out to the shop, found an old tractor pinion gear, cleaned it up and swedged a 10" piece of pipe in the end of…