Member postings for Harry Wilkes

Hi Guy's

I need to make a couple of tapered dowel pins which I understand are 1:48 but can anyone advise me what angle I would need to set my cross slide ?

Thanks

H

Takes me back to the 'dark days' when I earned a tanner an hour (2.5p) ..................................

H

Hi Dan

I have a 3" Burrell and the drain cocks work fine, they are not home made but ones that are available from supplies such as Poly Models / Maidstone Eng. The hole in them is not that big however my thinking is you have to much solid material in your boiler so I would start by giving it a good flush out and take it from there.

H

Some guy's have maybe already thought of this but it was only yesterday when the penny dropped for me ! Over the last few months I have been working on the crankshaft off my 3" Burrell and I'm one of these people who take photos as I disassemble thing and have been using my phone to do this so it's been getting a bit grubby at times it then accrued to me that I had an old Samsung mobile laying aroound so I cleared all the 'junk' off it loaded on the photos I have taken so now I have the visual references I like to hand and a clean mobile in my pocket

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Many thanks to all for replies and info.

Cheers H

Thanks to all for the replies and Ian I'll get some dimensions

Cheers H

Hi Guy's a friend picked this up a would like a little info on it, can anyone throw some light on it please.

Cheers H

Hope you have made it so that it can be easily changed !

H

Don't know John myself it's been suggested he retired but some say he's still dong a bit but everyone one say's he very good with copper boilers !!!

Hope this helps

H

Hi Jacob

I use one of these link as you can see lot difference in price Dewhurst go for around £40 on ebay. Some folks shy away from this switch because it leave the neutral connected in the off position but a lot of electrical items in the home have the neutral connected when left in a 13 Amp socket outlet !

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About an hour before reading the post I made a purchase of materials from Macc Models and had no problems or warning and for the record I'm using AVG

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Hi Jesse sorry I did mean to say an old mobile phone charger, as for ebay I have a ebay account wouldnt be without it saves a lot of time going to the shops, and I think you can purchase off ebay by signing in as a guest . I do believe you can also get the goods from Amazon

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Hi Michael at the weekend I cut my first internal thread 1.125" x12 so after you have looked at the manual Jason suggested maybe you may want to do what I did and watched a load of youtube videos on screw cutting start with 'doubleboost' and try this one for starters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SV7lDiSXto

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