Member postings for clogs

simply one word RAIN.......hate stuff, never been inspired to go out in it for fun........

similar to lack of sun........

sorry, just a sad old bloke.....

loads'a of that type on French car boots......

have said before.......

buy 2 cheapo drill sets....... Lidil etc.....keep 1 as a pattern and practice on the other.......

after each attemp at sharpening try it on a peice of angle etc.....

u'll soon learn what works.......

no cheapo drill's when I was a lad tho......horrendus waste of good Brit drill's.......still, gotta learn......

just to add :-

I was extremly lucky to buy both a Myford Super7 and a VMF mill, both still covered in wax......as new....

Paid around £8,000 for both......

reasons, why the hell not.......n, also when I pop me clogs my wife will get most of the money back....

wont get that with Asian machines.....

they are used as stand-by machines to help out my Clchester Student 6" and the Bridgeport.....

Lucky u say, I worked v hard to get em and enjoy every min useing them....

my plan is to use Hydraulic oil as a cutting fluid when my machines are unpacked from the big move..............

previously only ever used Q8 dilutable cutting fluid......think it was about £100 for 25 ltrs......when left standing u get a frog spawn type growth in the tank....had enough of that........

My as new Super7 and VMF mill only gets Hydraulic oil.......dont want water anywhere near em.....

there are specialist clutch n brake material suppliers........

I often have to resort to these people for help with antique machines......

ALSO dont forget tractors, industrial machines n cranes use block friction pads in the jib....

just google what u want but don't name the product......or friction material suppliers......

ring gears are quite cheap, easy to fit.........

the old days where bendix starters were used 1 replacement ring gear per life of the car......

not to bad really is it.....???

when I lived in Los-Angeles "JET" was then just Chinese old tat.....better now I guess......?

Axminster machines are also Chinese????? but perhaps somebody checks em for accuracy before they are shipped to europe......where do the bad'uns end up ??????.

Nothing wrong with Chinese/Asian tooling, it's when it's built DOWN to a price that causes trouble.......

just goes to show how complicated world trade really is.......

Thanks Celso......

nice peice of wood....tropical...you lucky boy.....

Nice tunes as well.......

Clogs, Crete, Greece........

even now still fancy an old Norton......

would like a modded Commando......(just poss).......

but I'll stick with my Indian Scout and the Ace 4 cylinder special.....

Brit motorcycles companies NEW n OLD, to many pub lunches for the morons at the top.....

Men in Suits.........!!!!!!!!!

and made with CRXP materials on rubbish equipment......with a few exceptions......

I admire ur idea of saving it........

I have a few things I've repared over the years.....

get a good feeling when I use them .......

even better in the pocket......

also have a sq. top student...I wanted a few bits.....ended up cobbling things to make do......

works just as well and as I say for us it's not a race anymore........hahaha......

keep up the good work, just wish it were mine.......

I exhibited there many years ago......even then...........

just plain grabbers.......

will never ever go again in any capacity.......

bit like St Ives in Cornwall....

rant over......

Thanks for writing Dave Hinves.......

Nothing to do with Ozz but quite similar problem.......

I lived in the deeply wooded Charante area of SW France, even around the devolped areas there are mass's of forests and wild woodland.......ALL UN-MANAGED and badley overgrown.......

fallen tree's in abundance.....on my walks, some were down before I got there and I lived there for 16 years.....just the dead stuff accumulated in front of ur eyes...........

I always worried if there were to be a bad forest fire.......the firebrigade was always around but badley under equiped.....

I say this as they used to inspect my 0.8 acre lake each visit.......I know and understand what would happen to it should a fire start....but beleive me it would be uncontrolable.......

I made this point many times to tose in charge and was told that the woods and forests were privatley owned and nothing could be done....

there'd be a lot of tears if the worst happens tho......

The cascade effect of this disaster down under should be weatherable as you are a large prosperous country but I worry for the future in the Northern Hemisphere as if the Nah sayer's can be beleived in the next 50 years these extremes of temp will start to hit us...look at the fires on the moor's not so long ago.....

Can the TIN-POT countries of the north cope......not on ur Nellie......

Well I for 1 will be long gone but those that are left behind I worry for.....

My sincere wishes to u all down there and hope for a speedy recovery.........

Please make sure the lesson's are learned....make sure the rest of the world knows of ur sucesses and failures....

take care in this awful start to the New Year........

that, or it's a badly import from India........

heard some bad stories of "New Myford Parts"......

nothing to do with the above question......

BUT

where ever possible I always increase the size of the motor's HP or whatever by at least 50%...

(not nec for my 3phase machines as have 440v direct from the mains).......

Makes em last longer for little extra outlay.......

Thats unless it a Proper UK made motor.....do they excist any more......????

always buy the old fashioned Brit motors "Brookes" etc just for stock, if they are cheap.......

I binned mine, thats those ridiculas original oil inserts.....

dug em out and where room permits made oil droppers and those that are close fit to something else get a sqirt of SYNTHETIC oil and then the hole is closed by those high strength magnets they sell these days......

never a problom any more........

done the same on my Colchester student esp the screw shaft end bushings....they got 90 degree oil droppers made..

now u can see the oil leaking by.......

always having this problem........

have now learnt to take everything to bits and lube the threads....when fitting new...

this includes ride on mowers etc........

save's loads'a time over the years ......

all small screws are changed for ST/Steel and around the exhuasts, brass fixings ...even if I have to make em.....

out of interest........

originally I used a Swedish make of a/line fittings.......but they died after 20 odd years of proffessional use.....

Now retrired but still v/busy bought some from liddil.......now 5 years old, still air tight and work fine.........

my compressor has a working press of 150psi.......

I have a 12inch SIP band saw (14 years old) and until I found TUFFSAWS I used the original manuf....

same result as u but I did get a mile or two of cutting heavy mild steel....mostly 50 mm dia n 10mm plate....

i now use Teff saw Cobalt loaded blades never a prob ever...tensioned all the time....and similar money, even by Machine mart prices...

blurb say's can be used without coolant but I still use it....don’t like the mess but when I run out of the milk goop gonna go straight to hydraulic oil only....plus all my lathes n mills will get the same treatment....

as for ur prob blades I'd be sending em back for repair or replacement.....

it wont be tracking that’s causing this problem...they are flexible.....more likely to be from a bad batch....

try another supplier or TuffSaw....

wouldn't bother tryin to fix em...just not worth the trouble .....

never buy cheap brands off ebay. They work to hard .....

good luck...

just to add a very happy customer of TSaw.....