Member postings for Andrew Tinsley

They don't have carbs as such. Just a very narrow aperture for the fuel and usually a compressed air source to start them. The difficulty is getting the diameter correct for the ambient temperature and pressure. Quite an art form in getting this correct.

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My name amongst the family is Grumps, just about say it all.

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I don't really care where tools come from as long as they are good. I have used Sherwood off and on for years and they have been every bit as good as Dormer, Osborne and the like. There is just more junk produced in China than in Europe and the US.

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Done likewise !

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Thanks gentlemen,

I have now sourced some reasonable quality switches without breaking the bank. The expensive variety which were cheap and nasty were indeed a shock. But as usual good advice was given on this forum.

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I like to keep my machines looking as good as possible. It gives me an incentive to clean them down after use. Otherwise they just get covered in dirt oil and swarf which doesn't do them a lot of good.

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Thanks Nigel,

An Ebay search didn't throw up those options, only some eye wateringly expensive equivalents!

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I need to make 4 or more pendents for various VFDs, with the usual controls. Stop, start plus forward and reverse and jog. Not forgetting the usual pot for speed control.

Looking around for suitable switches gave me a severe pain in the wallet! Can anyone suggest a source of suitable switches that don't cost an arm and a leg.

Andrew

Temperature is the death of LED lighting. The hotter it gets the quicker they fail. The usual quoted lifetime is for an LED in isolation. Put two or three together and the lifetime plummets.

There are some very dubious Chinese LED lamps on the market too. They use poor quality LEDs. Buy a major brand LED lamp. At least you should get some recompense in the case of early failure.

Andrew

I always go to Parcels 2 Go. They list about a dozen parcel delivery firms. The quoted prices are usually less than half quoted by the firms themselves on their own web sites. Even after you have factored insurance an VAT into the equation. I organised a pick up and delivery to my address for an item weighing around 30 kgs. Price was about £18 including £100 insurance an VAT. Don't know how they do it for so little.

Andrew

I often watch BIN items as it gives me some idea of the Ebay prices for a given item.

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Hello Ian, I thought that treatment was for hardening? Do you not want a slow cooling for stress relief? Quite happy to be shot down over this as the memory is not too sharp these days.

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Thank goodness I am not alone in the Wally stakes! There are so many experienced and erudite people on this forum, that I never expected my 1st class Wally status to be challenged!

Andrew.

My claim to fame must beat everyone else. I was putting in a sink and assorted kitchen units. I had a pipe (cold water) running down the wall, but proud of it. So I decided to make a channel in the wall and bury the pipe. I then thought I could run an electric cable in the channel. All was then plastered up, so far so good.

I had to fasten the sink unit base and units to the wall. So I put a horizontal batten along the wall. I drilled the fixing points for rawplugs carefully marking each position before hand . I even marked where the water pipe was.

You guessed it I drilled along the line of marks including that which marked the pipe. There was a flash and a bang and I pulled the (thankfully double insulated) mains powered drill out of the hole and got a jet of water straight in the face!

So don't cut corners as I did. The drill was quite interesting the carbide(?) cutting edge was quite fused!

Andrew.

P.S. How is that for being honest and admitting to Wally status?

Well now, doesn't that just look like a propane cylinder in disguise!

Not sure how this practice can be illegal, unless the rental agreement for the cylinders specify this to be so. As for safety, people have been doing this for as long as I can remember without anything untoward happening. Just make sure you have a drain valve installed if this is for long term usage.

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I hate powder coating. As soon as you get a dinge in the surface the steel rusts underneath the coating like wildfire.

I have used the two pack stuff, only using the colour and not the hardener. Takes time to dry but finishes up as hard as applying two pack! Maybe I was just lucky, or could be that the hardener is there to accelerate the drying. I was told to do by an old bodywork man that restores classic and vintage cars.

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I have the same problem with a pair of my grandfathers calipers (must be a genuine antique by now!). I too have had difficulty in locating suitable spring steel for a repair. I shall watch this topic in hope!

Andrew.

Maybe because folk may wish to keep the horizontal milling facility? Or maybe I am missing something?

Andrew.

I am all in favour of keeping the original colour for machine tools, but others will totally disagree, I am sure! Hammerite isn't what it was and the new formulation isn't as good as the old. I don't think it is as "rust proof" as the original formulation and some colours give a terrible finish when brushed. Avoid the smooth white , like the plague!

Andrew.