Member postings for Rik Shaw

For me the format of the forum is quite OK as it is. Ebay could learn a lot from the steady plod of this old nag!

Rik

I use pumped mistic on my machines but I have often thought that I'd give misting a try sometime. John Bogstandard designed and made his own version of a nozzle to keep the mist to a minimum but I can't find reference to it any more.

If I ever do get round to it I'll re-read this before I do anything.

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Gerhard - welcome to the house of fun! I am not a million miles from you and know Newport Pagnell quite well.

Rik

Wife carries an epi pen for the odd allergic reaction (undiagnosed allergy to something unknown) and was advised by our GP's surgery NOT to have a Pfizer. We cancelled our on line arranged Pfizer jab appointments and our very helpful practise manageress booked us both in elsewhere for the Oxford stuff.

Separately but related, I have just read online that chinese researchers have discovered that folk with blood group "O" are 33% less likely to be infected by the pestilence. Maybe my O+ will help until jab day on Saturday.

Rik

Geoff - did you have Pfizer or the Oxford stuff ?

Rik

This is mine Dave:

Let me know if more pics needed.

Rik

Edited By Rik Shaw on 02/02/2021 11:00:22

Do you mean this?

https://www.model-engineer.co.uk/forums/postings.asp?th=170682&p=1

Rik

Edited By Rik Shaw on 31/01/2021 15:09:09

Thanks for the tip Ady. Wife has the knees curse and she is going to try your Alice in Wonderland treatment.

Rik

Adan - Not sure about the 8" chuck on your lathe. The 4 jaws supplied with these lathes are the 160mm as you know. The suppliers obviously reckon that 160mm is the most suited - a bit easier on the headstock bearings perhaps?

I have a 200mm as supplied to go on my WARCO BH600G but the lathe is that much more heavy duty . By the way - the 200mm chuck is a bit of a beast. I have to use a winch to lift mine as I cannot even lift it of the floor where it lives.

So my advice would be to stick with the 160mm although it would be interesting to hear what others think.

Rik

First thing I'd try is bog standard paraffin.

Rik

I am very wary of big bangs having been injured in one as a kid so I must admit to being a bit windy watching these vids especially as my 5/6 year old 25 litre PowerCraft budget job lives under a bench within a few feet of my carcase.

Since I replaced all the connectors on the compressor, hoses and tools with PCL standard connectors I am no longer cursed with air leaks. Since then my normal pattern of usage is to bring the compressor up to pressure then switch it of at the mains socket. I mainly use it for blowing out machined work and using it thus a full reservoir can remain usable for a week or two. Repeat as necessary.

The tank collects very little water – most times I undo the drain I get air only. I wonder if this is because the workshop is heated, insulated and double glazed? I have just been up there and unscrewed the drain and only got air – if memory serves right the last time I undid the drain would have been maybe three or four months ago.

I am not offering any advice or recommendations as to the safe and proper way of using a “bomb” merely my way of doing things.

This is the first time I have ever seen a report of one of these budget compressors going bang. Hopefully it’s a bit of a “one off”.

One final thing and call me a “wuz” if you will but when I DO power the thing up I always retire safely to the house while it is inflating . As soon as that deafening “BLAAAAAR” stops I resume normal service.

Rik (still wincing at the split reservoir in the vid)

We have two of these, one is plugged into a socket in the workshop and the other by the side of my wifes desk down in the house. If either of us needs to holler she just presses her button or I can press mine which hangs round my neck on a cord.

Alarm volume is more than adequate and the units strobe lights are brilliant for the mutton and jeff. Best of all - they are cheap as chips!

Only ever used once in anger when we had an unexpected visitor and I was summoned to come and open the bar .

Rik

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I bought this 150mm digital unbranded version new and cased from a bloke standing behind a pasting table in the middle of a field one gloriously hot Sunday afternoon some years ago - £30 if I remember correctly. It is smooth, accurate, very reliable and a pleasure to use. It lives and works for most of the time on top of a 12" square granite inspection plate (another car boot acquisition) where used in conjunction with a box of older Matrix imperial slips I can - for instance - mark out in confidence without having to rely on my ropey old eyes.

I would recommend one with a carbide scribing jaw for obvious reasons and try and remember to turn the power of after use, that way the battery will last "forever".

Rik

Hello George - belt from motor and spindle drive belt are the same. This is what is on my BH600G:

HANGCHANG

RECMF 8340

17X835 Li

If I ever need a belt I get mine from Bedford Bearings Ltd. 01234 271127 - they are my local experts.

Rik

John - I am quite sure I could rustle up some suitable bits for you FOC but even then I fear the postal charge to Canada would be uneconomical

Another glimpse of a 9" tall seven cylinder radial steamer in my small collection here:

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and here:

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Thanks to MichaelG for the book recommendation. I purchased it at the time.

Good work being done John – be nice to see it (flying?) when you have finished.

Rik

I have never used one but a place where I worked years ago did. With the hone fitted to a thing like a very large two handled electric drill the fitter would hone a bored cast iron cylinder to take a cast iron piston that I had ground for him. Pistons varied in size up to 7" diameter and 8" long. The point I would like to make though is that of all the fitters, only one of them had the knack of getting it REALLY right. A hot sweaty job in the summer, Pete certainly earned his wages doing that job.

Rik

‘Twas Christmas day in the workshop and all was peaceful and quiet

when the door caved in with a dreadful din and there stood Neil Wyatt.

“Seasons greetings” was his wish -  to us and all our dears

The same to you Neil from us lot “The Model Engineers”

Rik

Edited By Rik Shaw on 25/12/2020 13:21:20

Martin - I am doing something similar at the mo on a tiddly RECORD ML-10 lathe. A nicely made lathe apart from the graduated handwheel dials which are made from black plastic. I am remaking them in ally and the grads are being done in the lathe with a broken 6mm carbide cutter ground with a pointy end.

There are forty grads per dial and my luck was in when I found I could index from the first 40T spindle gear on my Warco lathe.

When I have done the grads I’ll need to do the numbers - “0” and “0.5” at 180 degrees to the zero. This will be done on my small ISEL CNC machine with the dials mounted on a stub mandrel and held in a 5C collet block.

The only problem here was that I do not have a 4^th axis for rotary machining. I have overcome this by designing and making a small (6mm dia.) spring loaded drag engraving bit which I have tested on 2.5mm digits and it works a treat.

I need four dials to complete the job but I I’ll make five – one as a spare. That will be quite enough graduations for me for some time thank you very much.

Rik

I’d never heard of the Silver Line until just now. I read the link and thought it might be of interest to some of you on here who live on their own and might not be exactly inundated with friends and family over the Christmas period.

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Bottoms up.

Rik

The bloke in the heat treatment plant at the last place I earnt a crust used to stuff fire clay in the tapped holes to stop the threads from hardening.

Rik