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Got the system working, with camcorder sending video directly to the MacBook's HDD, but the laptop being on the opposite side of the Garage compared to the machines, is just not convenient when trying to check the video stream whilst working on any machine.

A solution most definitely needed, and that means finding somewhere far more convenient to position the computer.

Cogitating, as one does in situations calling for a solution to a problem, I realised I had the perfect temporary one.

Put the sheet music holder back onto its stand and use that to hold the computer.

It will give me an easy way of experimenting with various positions [Ahhh that word brings back memories of youth ] to decide where to put another bracket, if possible, or just keep using music holder as is.

Oh, I did have to search high and low for the Wireless Remote, but eventually found it, so one problem sorted.

This video recording malarkey is more involved than I at first thought.

Geoff - Hats off to those who make it look so easy.

Clive,

I enjoyed the first 'Hive Alive' and learned a lot.

Who would have thought that bees and flowers 'communicate' with each other!

As mentioned in the programme, I have also been amazed at seeing bees ignore flowers recently visited by themselves or other bees, but not knowing why or how. Now I do.

Mind boggling to say the least!

Geoff - Taking videos in the Workshop is NOT a doddle. See my LCD post for details.

As usual it's taken me ages to actually get round to this particular project.

Having finished the second SkyHook, all that was needed was some way of holding my MacBook or iPad in a secure fashion, clear of the workbench as well as Carport floor and out of harms way.

i did think of making something, but as with the Carport MainDoor, something off the shelf was preferable.

The Carport MainDoor came in the form of a basic Up&Over, but without the huge spring and associated gubbins, the ComputerBracket in the form of LCD Wall Brackets for flat screen TVs.

Hooks screwed into roof beams to hang FireWire cable from, allowing me to record video from the HV20 directly onto the MacBook's HDD.

Photo of said item in the Workbench, with others in Albums, 'Computer Wall Brackets'

Geoff - Done very little due to humidity, even though Garage is 4-6° cooler.

Norman,

Couldn't at first figure out what you where getting at, then the penny dropped and this sprang into my mind . . .

'Here's another one of those smart*****'

JS is to blame as usual. By the way, how did your jolly to the manufacturing centre of the World turn out? Must have been an eye opener.

Geoff - Had a good laugh when the penny did drop though. Keep it up!

Anthony,

If you are within commute of me, South Norfolk, you are welcome any time.

Geoff - Sleep eludes me.

Brian,

They are for holding my camera and camcorders, thus doing away with the need to use tripods with their associated risk of tripping over legs, but best of all, freeing up the floor space they consume.

It will be virtually hassle free to get things set up now.

The camcorder show is a Kodak Play&touch.

Have a look in my SkyHook Album, and you will see my Canon HV20 mounted on the first one.

As soon as I get the LCD wall bracket holding my MacBook securely, I can then start recording what I do, the first will be showing how to remove the Apron from a Warco BH600G or equivalent lathe. I still need to replace the parts I did a nonsense to.

Geoff - Hats off to 'doubleboost' for his invention!

Mike,

Explosives/shells with an internal core of copper, shaped in a cone, have the same destructive power.

Who would have thought that of soft copper.

Geoff - F*****g silent calls all afternoon! Add your favourite Ango-Saxon.

Finished SkyHook Mk.II yesterday.

As can be seen this iteration has the LockingTube angled to clear the Monopod.

The first one I made had the tube //le with the Monopod and that turned out not too convenient in use.

The angle (of the dangle) is greater than I planned, due to welding screw-up.

Now busy with the swivelling TV/LCD wall bracket to hold the MacBook/iPad.

Geoff - One day my stick welding MAY possibly improve.

Hello Andrew,

Condolences to you and your Mom.

Your Dad no doubt was one of my customers when I had my shop in Northpark Plaza, but memory not as it was due to treatment.

You are certainly asking in the correct Forum.

Have you thought of also doing so on/in those across the Pond? Weight would not be a problem when sent via sea, but I now have no idea how efficient the post office is in SA.

I have a full set of ME, and enjoy a night reading, and about to start No. 783.

Being an ex-motorcyclist, I find the articles by Phoenix fascinating. How times have changed ,

Geoff - Finish the extra SkyHook today.

OMG,

Plastic lenses.

Spoiler.

I bow my head in shame

Did you really expect anyone else to win?

He was so fired up after that total brain out of gear cock-up on that last Qually lap!

Best of all is having Williams back on form, but lucky escape for two drivers though.

Where did they find Bottas?

Neil,

The West is anti-car from all the bull manure from a lot of people, the latest from dear Boris who wants to ban ALL Classic cars due to their 'polluting' the 'clean' inner-London air.

No doubt all the Chelsea tractors and other gas guzzlers will be exempt. There is a protest site up for signing www.classicandsportscar.com/news/general-classic-car-news/the-free-use-of-classic-cars-in-central-london

Geoff - Just back from an hour in the dentist's chair, & now sipping Rooibos.

Edited By OuBallie on 07/07/2014 12:25:22

That link keeps appearing at the top of the post, so inserted the text instead. Can you fix please Neil?

Edited By OuBallie on 07/07/2014 12:27:14

I use Meths to clean my glasses, applied using a paper towel.

Works well, and none of the smell from proprietary products.

Geoff - Nice one Lewis!

Far too hot to weld the SkyHook parts waiting in the Carport, so what to do instead.

Ah yes thought I, remove the two lower shafts that run along the BH600G lathe bed.

Garage smelt like a winery for a while after the machinations detailed herewith:

Remove the following;
1) Feed Rod, to machine the end to take the battery drill innards,
2) Motor Direction Rod, as I don't think I will be using it as I intend to use a three position DPDT for Forward-Off-Reverse for said drill motor.

Knock out the brass tube from the Feed Rod only, now used to lock the shafts to gearbox outputs. Leadscrew remaining connected.

Remove the bolts and taper alignment pins from the bracket at the Tailstock end, that supports all three rods and heave it and the two rods to the right.

Now the winery bit.
I have a hip high wine rack against the Garage door and clear of the lathe, but not out the way from some hamfisted pillock as happened when I heaved a little to energetically and the Feed Rod, already pushed out as far as I could, made contact with a bottle and it, the bottle, went crash, tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, followed by the smell of the nice stuff assailing my nostrils.
"Oh bother etc etc" said I.
Luckily not an expensive bottle, otherwise all of Norfolk and Suffolk would have known about it
Paper down and I continued, removed the two rods and then put the end support back, so now ready to decide how to connect battery motor to the Feed Rod.
The wine rack is in the Garage as it doesn't get too hot or cold, in there due to the insulation.

Screwed an LCD swivel wall mount onto the wall above the bench to take my laptop and iPad.

The laptop to record video onto the HDD directly from my Canon camcorder instead of to the MiniTapes. Now need to make a suitable carrier for the computer and iPad.

Practice sewing leather on the Singer sewing machine now that I've got it all up and running at last. It's turned out to have better speed control compared to the Brother domestic machine I have.

Mow the lawn around nine when it's a bit cooler, as my neighbour does.

Geoff - One less bottle to indulge in

Edited By OuBallie on 04/07/2014 17:12:17

Inside 25.7° Carport 30.5° Garage 23.5°

Geoff - Guess where I will be, nice and cool

I've worn Varifocus form the time they came onto the market, but I binned the Mk.I version as their field of undistorted vision was just too narrow. Made me feel sick.

As mentioned, it DOES take time to adjust, and it took me weeks of perseverance using the glasses, starting with short sessions then progressing to longer and longer periods.

THE most important thing when wearing Varifocus glasses is to MOVE your head in the direction you want to look, NOT just your eyes.

Moving eyes only means you are looking through that part of the lens that distorts everything, and that is what leads to the problems most experience with first use. I soon learned to do this with Mk.II versions of the lenses and have never looked back. It has become such a habit now, I find myself automatically doing so as well as tilting my head back to read even when I'm not wearing my glasses.

For trying to focus close-up looking through the top, long distance, part of the lens, I use clip-on magnifying lenses, so no longer have to find ways to do the job upside down now

Having had cataracts removed from both eyes, with long distance lenses implanted I only need to wear glasses for reading or workshop time.

Geoff - Carport 28°C but Workshop 23°C

Edit

PS

Graham,

The cost of Varifocus glasses here is a rip-off as you have proved.

Edited By OuBallie on 04/07/2014 11:01:12

That's a massive difference in price between the two suppliers!

I like to support local businesses wherever possible, but . . .

Geoff - Recovering, having spilled all the BA taps onto the floor. Aargh! ^*+# junk 'phone calls!

Ditto Neil's opening comment!

What size/type of motor?

Didnt see any smoke, so it must be pretty good.

It's a real buzz when you see a miniature you have built actually working, so you must be on a high with yours.

I remember the first stationery steam engine I built, and how chuffed I was seeing that oscillating engine spinning.

The fact that the ST meths boiler nearly fumigated me didn't matter.

Curly's description of using meths to fire a boiler certainly was apt.

Geoff - Busy making another SkyHook.

Found out why the H/V generic bandsaw wasn't cutting square.

A bit embarresed at this, but here goes.

I had set the fixed vice jaw against the slot in the base that the blade falls into at end of cut.

Well that turned out to be a bad bad move!

Decided to check the fixed jaw against the actual blade, as I SHOULD have done from day one, and it wasn't square.

Reset the jaw, and it now cuts perfectly square in both planes.

Moral of the story is check against every machined face and part possible before making assumptions.

I just thought yada yada yada.

Geoff - 'Thought' planted a feather etc.

The Lensman series comprises of 8 books by E.E. 'Doc' Smith.

Although written before WWII, some of the technology he describes is virtually bang up-to-date, with just his descriptions differing to the modern variety.

They where the first SciFi books I read in the early '70s, and I've been hooked ever since.

I actually bought a complete set a couple of years ago, as well as audiobooks.

Others have tried to carry on with the series, but their writing is not a patch on the original.

Well worth reading. I've now read them three times.

Geoff - Now reading 'Great North Road'

Rod,

Whisper the location in me ear please!

I live in deepest darkest depths of said County, so easy drive.

Geoff - Have car will travel . . .

Cannot believe how long things take to do nowadays

It's now working as designed, having just assembler it.

That ring 'nut' was loosened using the tried and trusted method of blunt screwdriver given a couple of hefty biffs with a hammer.

Once off it revealed the key and keyway, so I gave every moving part a judicious spray of Duck Oil and left it overnight to work some magic if possible. I also pumped slide way oil into the housing through the spring oiler.

Well that overnight turned into a few days, but when I gave the spindle a twist it actually moved!

After a few revs the spindle started to spin quite freely, so I gave up on the idea of trying to remove said item.

That was two days ago, and today I put everything back, and it's now working as it should.

Two more photos added to Album.

Thanks for all the help.

Geoff - Happy bunny am I. Now where the 'bleep' are all the collets?