Member postings for Harry Wilkes

I worked in a steel works 60s-70s and it had 3 scrapyard No 3 yard being by far the biggest and the one where all the 'car' scrap was tipped, in the early years I often had to go to No3 yard to repair the cable on the cranes magnet 15 min job then 30 mins poking through the scrap you could almost say you could find any part you wanted. One could find starter motors and dynamos by the dozen and you were allow to buy them at scrap price which I did I then refurbished then fitting new bearing, brushes and Bendix which I then sold on for a small profit never short of buyer's there were 2200 employees

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Repaired the wife's die cutting machine loads of brownie points

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Geoff having worked on the SVR I know the kick you got driving the loco ! Speedy great link

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As it been pointed out dependant on the size of the boiler you may not need 2 means of adding water and if you go the way Fizzy suggests why not still fit a bush then in the future you may want to fit a hand pump then the bush is there.

It may be worth you checking out Keith Appleton's youtube channel he does quite a lot of work with boiler **link**

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I don't do twitter but I did click on the link, was asked to login or sign up but declined after that I could see the web page without Mr President jumping out and I have to say found it quite interesting !!!

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Couldn't possibly be me......? who am I to comment ​ but as Hopper suggests consider a rear tool post, I used to be one of the guy's that at times struggled with parting off but not since using the rear tool post method

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Edited By Harry Wilkes on 04/03/2018 21:47:15

Edited By Harry Wilkes on 04/03/2018 21:52:49

At heart I,m a Samsung fan but at the moment I,m using a iPhone 5, there are some good deals to be had at the monument on both the iPhone 4 &5 both quite 'pocket sized'. As to why i'm not using a Samsung it's simply that the one I had would not 'talk' to my car's hands free !

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PM Research also do a fine range included in that are steam fitting some of which are sold by Forest Classic but beware if you do think about purchasing any threaded parts they are to US standards.

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Mike thanks for the info, Michael I am now thinking it may have been damaged in some way but I cannot see any 'war wounds' If I close the mic and zero the display it reads fine, I have other micrometres I can use if the battery fail's it's just so much easier

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Simon I have managed to find some info on setting of the function but it needs mechanical adjustment the barrel is not zeroing

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Michael the barrel doesn't zero I seem to remember reading somewhere (maybe in a dream) that small adjustments could be carried out with 'C' spanner other adjustment could be made by taking the barrel off and slightly rotating it on the splines !

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Thanks for the links Michael I had already checked them out the one was useful as far as the functions but not adjustment

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Good afternoon I have been left a mitutoyo digimatic micrometer 293-766-10 it's in need of adjustment I have searched Mitutoyo websites looking for a user guide/ instruction to no avail, does anyone have this type of mic if any chance of a copy of the instructions/ adjustment please.

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Thanks for the post Martin

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"so was out in the shed a 4 o clock .How may of you guys on here ever do the same ." Some years back I worked the night shift for around 6 months and in order not to keep upsetting my 'bio' clock one my days off I worked in my shed through the night and slept in the day just the same as my working pattern.

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Maybe worth posting the question on Traction Talk in the model steam engines section link

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I have used Parvalux in my industrial life for many years and also found them to be a very professional outfit

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Welcome to the forum

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Thanks for sharing

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