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Marlow A3 Milling Machine.

Time to sort out the Y-axis Handwheel.

Advise please on how to reconstruct the handle boss.

Handle with boss went AOL during delivery, never to be found.

I have some of those all singing & dancing aluminium welding rods, but haven't tried them out.

The paint on the wheel will suffer, but I can live with that as the machine is intended to work as designed. Been using it of late and it's nice & solid.

Top photo shows the wheel with boss missing, whilst the second shows the X-axis wheel complete.

Making a new revolving handle is not a problem.

Geoff - Productive day in the Workshop

Edited By OuBallie on 07/02/2015 18:26:01

Neil,

Third photo shows that block mounted on the faceplate, or do you referring to a different one?

Geoff - Workshop here I come.

Is it just me that detests the plastic shielded crimps?

Once crimped they look ugly, so I strip the plastic off and use heat shrink tube where necessary.

Agree with Frank's last sentence/quote and David about using the proper tool as it makes crimping a pleasure, so much so, that I'm actually looking forward to re-wiring the Austin Seven.

Cannot believe I used those blade crimping tools in the past - abomination are they after using the 'proper' ones.

Geoff - Waiting for Workshop to heat up.

Edited By OuBallie on 07/02/2015 09:45:04

Neil,

Well done using that small lathe! Swinging that lump of CI made my eyes pop.

However, I think you should publish the photos you decided to remove, stating quite clearly why the set-ups are iffy.

Newcomers to the hobby need to be shown just what constitutes a dodgy/dangerous set-up to forewarn them NOT to do so, and that no doubt applies to some of us hobby oldies as well.

It may well prevent someone from doing a nasty to themselves and/or whoever is with them, apart from ruining a part.

It behoves us 'learned hobbiests' to pass on our experience/s, good and bad, for the benefit of others especially those new to the hobby.

I remember my first "Oh sh1t" moment using my V10P, when the long bar sticking out the end of the spindle decided to flail everything it could reach. That was a lesson never forgotten, as was leaving the chuck key in place and it went whizzing past my ear. Another lesson learned.

Geoff - been back in the Workshop this week at last.

Paul,

Climb milling I see.

How did that go?

That link has made me think, as I was going to modify one of those 'Canopy' type round LED lamps to fit to my Mitco.

If anyone comes across a Mitco floor standing drilling machine, manufactured in Pietermaritzburg SA, snap it up, you won't regret it.

Geoff - Not coughing myself stupid at last, only silly. Back to normal then

Fizzy,

There was a long descusion about just this in 'Ours' many many moons ago, if memory serves, but do not remember if there was any definitive outcome.

One of the theories/arguments for not having the regulator before the SH elements, was that when closing said regulator, steam already in the system would continue to expand and heat up and the loco would not stop as required.

Anyway, with our locos, the volume of steam is too small to have any effect, and in any case, the full size ones had no such theoretical problem.

All my locos have/had the regulator before the superheater.

As you mentioned, a boiler would empty itself PDQ, and in quite a spectacular fashion.

Saw this happen at the JLS Club one Sunday when a safety valve was tapped to stop it leaking. It cried enough, parted company with the boiler and took off skywards. Made everyone jump at the sound and sight of all that pent up energy being suddenly released.

A spectacular sight it was.

Oh, it was a brass safety valve to boot, never to be found, it having been eaten away at the boiler bush, hence brass being a taboo for such fittings.

Geoff - Still coughing

Nothing for the last fortnight, except for making the FeedRodMotor RCS label, and then having it print out a tad smaller than expected, then punched the holes without realising it, then saying "sod it, it can stay as it" once I glued it into place.

The cause of the non-activity was me catching the nasty chest infection that's doing the rounds, from family

When younger, much younger, I went to work over the weekend, in winter and having a cold, as the company was moving into new premises. The norm in those days. Is it the same now?

Well a few days later I was laid up for nearly a month with double pneumonia.

So although I can get the Workshop heated quickly, once bitten and all that.

Her indoors has been doing the shopping, as she has just about recovered from her bout.

Trying to sleep at night, I now know what a death rattle must sound like.

Geoff - Lemon, honey & glycerin to the rescue. Home made of course

Oops!

Didn't read the details, where all is explained.

Geoff - Sodding infection. The only excuse I can hide behind.

Edited By OuBallie on 13/01/2015 10:42:11

With Workshop time on hold for now, I've been able to catch up on reading my collection of The Model Engineer and Electrician.

My brain took a while to catch up with what my eyes where seing.

First thought was "Not possible", but then the old saying 'Photos don't lie' came to the fore.

Cut and paste in the 1920s being just that, scissors and glue, and easily discerned, unlike today where that old saying is well passed its usefulness.

I thought, (dangerous I know) that 10 coupled was it.

How many of those wheels would be flangeless and what would be the minimum track radius I wonder.

Geoff - Been waiting to cind out when 'LBSC' appeared, and he did so in "Battle of the Boilers" during 1922.

Edited By OuBallie on 13/01/2015 10:22:04

Yes, I know about that cop-out site!

Where is the "name and shame" she promised, in any of them.

Name and shame is just that, you name someone or organisation, causing them acute embarrassment at their own stupidity. Wouldn't that be great fun if applied to our politicians though?

Just another sop to us the public, as there is absolutely NO disincentive for the ongoing stupidity.

As I said she has been well and truly nobbled, and that site is next to useless, as those abusing the H&S continue to get away with doing so.

I haven't managed to side step the %#*' chest infection doing the rounds.

Geoff - Coughing my lung to destruction, at least that's what it feels/sounds like!

Edit: Spelling.

Edited By OuBallie on 13/01/2015 09:53:36

Martin P,

Just wait until you approach, then sail into your 'three score and ten' era to know things will never be the same again

Last week I slagged off an eBay firm for not delivering, only to be very politely reminded that they had refunded me postage I had to pay on the packet. Did another search and the item was where I had stored it

Just been searching for a drill bit, only to eventually remember it was still in the battery drill that I used to secure the Carport roofing, leaving it just in case, as prediction is for more high winds on.

Geoff - I do my best to ignore these forgetful episodes, but some days

LOL

Thanks MichaelG.

It's all too easy not to notice that numerical list of those extra photo pages, as I've found on occasion.

Geoff - 3Ss done, so Workshop here I come.

Neil,

Agree with you.

The Chairwoman of the HS&E, Mrs. Hackett, made a public commitment in 2011 to 'name and shame' all those who used H&S for spurious reasons.

I either heard or read it, but she appears to have backed down, as nothing has been forthcoming from that organisation.

Possibly pressure brought against her not to cause extreme embarrassment no doubt, to lots of Councils and companies.

If the organisation that introduces these H&S 'guidelines' isn't bothered to 'name and shame' those abusing it's name, then what hope do we have.

Geoff - Well Monday is starting well init?!

Neil,

Have a look at Biostrip **LINK**biostrip.co.uk

I've used it to remove some of the paint off of my Austin Seven and stripped the paint from the wood Carport side door.

Works a treat.

Heater on in Workshop. It's no longer used as a Garage so will discontinue that description unless relevant.

Geoff - If my brother saw me outside in shirtsleeves in 9°C he would have a fit

Percival Marshall had an inkling of what could happen, as in 'Our Point of View' of September 1923!

Wonder how he would respond today?

Any thoughts anyone?

Geoff - Workshop time today

In response to Clive 'our bee man's' request for details on roasting, 30th last month and anyone else interested, I can do no better than point you to **LINK**HatQFazEhc4

That man changed my coffee drinking experience.

Since finishing my popcorn popper roaster, I've invested in a proper machine, namely a Gene Café, got at a good price, that does 240g at one sitting.

Beans roasted between 240-250°C start to developed their flavour, and the level depends entirely on how long they are kept at that temp.

Although the popper worked, it required continuous fiddling with both the heater and fan controls whilst keeping an eye on the two temperature readouts.

I no longer have to worry about keeping the temperatures within certain limits, all automatic now, and only worry what level of roast I want just by observing what state the beans have reached.

Geoff - My roasts are improving every time using the new roaster.

Can do better with regards to links so need to bone up on bb & html code long forgotten or better still find out how this site works!

Edited By OuBallie on 11/01/2015 15:32:15

Ady1,

The US Constitution is actually based on the Magna Carter, something which they really took to heart when drawing up their own solid interpretation.

Neil,

Pity they haven't done the same for us!

There's a new series on BBC R4 starting at 0900h this Tuesday about our 'democracy', which should be interesting, and available via iPlayer for listening later on.

Tony,

Was expecting such a question, but 'life' got in the way.

That was our standard question we asked anyone who came to SA and then started criticising the country.

Well, that criticism has turned out to be valid, and something we where either too blind or brain washed to realise.

I just made a statement of fact about the difference between France and Britain.

I was on a training course with Merlin Gerin in Grenoble in the '70s, and HAD to return home to run their SA office, or be out of work. Simple.

I have, however, absolutely no intention of getting into a mindless debate about this, as things are what they are.

Everyone of us would change things in our past if we could, of this I have no doubt.

Right now I'm enjoying being back at the centre of the model engineering fraternity.

It's the mindless politicians and burocrats that get up my nose, big time! Would love to give them all where those meaningless platitudes eminate from.

Geoff - How many have had their lives changed through circumstance not of their own making?

Edit: Response to Ady1

Edited By OuBallie on 11/01/2015 14:09:25

Phil,

Love your rants

Pity our politicians/councils are too effing stupid to understand or even realise what damage they have, and continue to do to this once great country.

HSE/Govt have a lot to answer for.

I am astonished that this country puts up with the utter nonsensical pettiness of most of it.

Having lived in France, I know what the reaction would be over there to what is foisted on us - the Guillotine.

The biggest difference between us is that the French government is beholden to the people and knows it, whereas the opposite is mostly true over here.

Geoff - Been wanting to get that off of my chest for years, and this thread has given me the opportunity.

Bazyle,

"Education" nowadays appears to be all about preparing students to pass the exams thrust upon them, and nothing to do about teaching them stuff that will be useful in life.

HSE/Govt have a lot to answer for, and I am astonished that this country puts up with the utter pettiness of most of it.

(Just had to get that off of my chest, and now appeared an appropriate moment)

I too despair at what is not being taught.

Talking of tallow, I use it on my 1935 Austin Seven, soaking various felt seals in the molten product, then letting it set.

'The Old Man' knew a thing or two, and we still cannot find modern lip seals to replace all the felt ones.

Available at your local supermarket, so boosting their dwindling profits

Geoff - Family passed on their chest infection. No wonder our hospitals are in trouble!

You won't regret having that remote David.

You may want to consider, as I did, in replacing the 'Stop' button with a 'Twist-to-Unlock' mushroom headed emergency one.

Much more convenient.

The 'Management' managed to knock her Ka's rear view mirror off, so next project is to glue it back.

Geoff - I have no intention of asking how she managed that.