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That is the obvious action -- bit like RTFM i suppose.

Will call them Monday, although this afternoon fault has stopped so it seems to be one of those awkward ones

No idea. It was new when i bought it.. I undid the front panel & waggled some wiring & the fault has stopped--- for now it would appear !!!

Cannot read the label on the back as the lathe is bolted down & against a wall.

Edited By Sam Longley 1 on 18/03/2017 15:23:32

I have a Warco 240MV purchased march 2016

I have a problem that is getting worse & having no idea about electrics I am becoming concerned.

When I press the start button there is the usual loud click & often nothing happens. I then press the stop button ( Not the large main cut off one) & then the green button & the lathe normally starts. However, I now have to repeat the process up to 3 times to get the lathe to start, so something is developing into a fault. I always turn the speed down before starting & wind the cutter back so less load before starting. I assume that is correct !!

In addition the lathe will suddenly stop dead for a second, then start when i am turning.As an example, it did this yesterday when I was boring a hole in steel with a carbide boring bar at 925 RPM so i do not believe that i was loading the machine unduly

Has anyone had this issue & can they point me in the likely direction for rectification

Thanks

Pointless when my son would show you how to solder a string of LEDs together for a better light

Technology moves on & people adapt to suit. I cannot spin wool & would not want to nor would i need to, but I wish I understood how LEDs worked. Do we need to repair un-reparable cars at home. Older generation only think we do because they used to repair their old ones & get irritated that they cannot do the same on new ones. Send them to the local garage.

We do not have to worry that certain skills are no longer attained. They are not necessarily needed in the work place. As a result these skills will not be taken back to the home in the same way. Just because someone can turn a widget to a tolerance of a thou it may be that it make no difference because a robot can do it to half a thou. What is needed is an operator to programme the robot.

So the skill that is taken home is a "programming" one not a "making" one. So if the WIFI throws a wobbly it will be solved in an instance !!!  but if the handle falls off the kitchen appliance then no hope.

Furthermore, I think that the forum may be a little short sighted in its vision. "Makers" are not just people who can turn a lump of steel in a lathe. As an example --we will still have carpenters & bricklayers who can build their own extensions. The DIY industry is still worth £ms . One should not forget all the jobs that people do & things people make quite successfully at home with quite limited tools.

So all is not totally lost & the internet will always help people to undertake those extra tasks

Edited By Sam Longley 1 on 09/03/2017 09:03:20

When I had my building business I used to buy 9 inch cut off blades & stone cutting discs ( for wall chasing) by the 1000 for cost reasons. So I have used a few over the years & never had one shatter. The type I used to buy always came with paper washers to spread the fit of the clamping nuts. People tend not to bother & I have not seen this in later years.

Last year I was cutting some chain by standing on the links each side of the one to cut. Someone spoke to me , I looked up. The chain slipped , I had cut one half of the 19mm link. The 9 inch blade shattered & a couple of the bits over 1 inch across shot 30 feet across the yacht club dinghy park & fortunately missed everyone nearby. A piece stuck in my trouser leg but missed my leg.

I was amazed at the damage & the way the blade , A thin pattern , shattered.

I have since gone back to the thicker pattern blades

Which then tells me that my order No is invalid & to click the link for help which then leads me to a page which no longer exists as a help page but would like to sell me more magazines !!!!!!

I did try down loading the mag before on both Ipad & laptop & failed miserably

But to be honest the magazine is not for me. I had thought of getting a totally different couple of titles from Time media but this has taught me a lesson so I will not get caught again.

Thanks for trying anyway

Sam L

I subscribed to an annual digital subscription of Model Engineer.

Was not particularly enthralled by its content & never read the last 4-5 issues much. So when the subscription period expired I did not renew.

but what i did not realise was that when this happened i could no longer get access to the ones I had paid for.

I had tried down loading the copies but never actually managed that so not sure if that was what I was supposed to do or not.

Bit of a con that one

Was going to change magazines to Model Engineer Workshop which would have been more appropriate to my needs but never again.

Nick

Ordered

Thanks

Sam

Bit late now I know, but if you can knock the nail back a bit to get the nailbar under the head stick a bit of pipe or a large bolt, or even a small block of wood, under the bar close to the jaw. This increases the fulcrum & you get much more leverage on the nail to start it off

Edited By Sam Longley 1 on 28/02/2017 11:56:54

That is cruel !!

Bats are a protected species &I bet you would go purple if someone shoved a 4 ft spring ........

Edited By Sam Longley 1 on 28/02/2017 08:18:54

Just replacing the wall does seem a first option before i mill out the whole lot

Unless I get some other advice i think that will be the way forward.

Thanks for the suggestion Martin

The wall is 3mm thick

the inlet slots are 6mm long * 6 deep

the exhaust slot 9mm long * 9mm deep

As IanT suggests silver soldering a large lump of brass is not really on for someone with my limited ability of silver soldering. It will be hard enough getting enough heat to soft solder, so I will have to research some form of locktight

Jim Nic suggests 638 so i will look that up

Edited By Sam Longley 1 on 28/02/2017 08:07:24

I have a 65*65*65 brass cylinder block almost machined for my PYRTE traction engine complete with Phosphor bronze cylinder liner fitted. So the £'s investment is quite high for this component

Unfortunately I drilled the holes from each end of the actual cylinder to the inlet slots badly. One 4mm diam hole came through the inlet slot & into the exhaust slot

If I filled the slots with soft solder & re machined them so that the wall between the inlet & exhaust was effectively soft solder would the solder melt. Is there a big pressure difference which would blow out a 3mm th disc of solder 4mm diam out of place?

My other alternative is to put the whole block into a chuck & machine out a circular flat bottomed hole about 25mm diam & 12mm deep. I could then pres fit a plug of brass in place & re machine the slots.

Could I soft solder this to seal any joints or is there another jointing medium to use or do i need a jointing medium with 2 surfaces of brass that has been pushed hard together

How would the experts deal with this without throwing £50-00 at it for brass & bronze plus a lot of time wasted?

Thanks

Sam Longley

Are you actually using scaffold tubing or Key Klamp handrailing with all the attendant junctions.?

Edited By Sam Longley 1 on 23/02/2017 21:00:34

Was that because it took you 3 goes, or because you have told us forumites a thousand times how to post links & I still got it wrong?????

Thanks

Sam L

Sorry about last post my copy seems to run off the page. Is this just me? Might need help from a moderator !!

There was a thread Files- best bang per buck In it were a number of comments from forumites re preferences & I believe a video from Arc Euro trade on file making & a particular make of file that they eventually started to import.

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Just remember that if you have a keyed one. to tighten it from all 3 holes with the correct sized key

Then duck !!!!!!!!!

OK I am going

What annoys me when I read stuff like that is how the private buyer gets ripped off.

When i had my joinery business that would have been skipped if left over from a job as it was just not worth the space saving it.

Likewise pieces of hardwood that I would now have to pay a fortune for, I used to put on my wood burner

If a person came to our yard we would let them look in the skip --provided they made a decent contribution to the blind box. The better the contribution the more often they could come.

neil

same for me - got fed up waiting

Sam L

Edited By Sam Longley 1 on 08/02/2017 19:11:34

Trigger got 15 years out of his broom !!