Member postings for Harry Wilkes

Maurice

Cant add much to what Jason has said I cut ME threads in brass both in the lathe and by hand in the vice without a problem nice lead in bar, some thread cutting paste and back off often. Just a thought have you tried to thread brass from another source, could it be the material ?

H

Hi Maurice

Normally when threading your material is the same size as your dies so it would help if you told us what sort of dies your using HSS or carbon, are they split dies, are you doing it in a lathe or vice and what is your exact problem ?

H

Hi Peter as Les suggested remove terminal board and give it a good clean and again as Les suggested I think you will find the other 3 winding wires on the top right terminal. I think it worth persevering with the motor so give it a good clean and get your self an inverter assuming you do not have a three phase supply, it's not hard to reconfig the winding for delta but as I said you will need a meter .

h

Peter ref your motor one of those four terminals as 3 wires on it that's the star point you'll need a meter to check out the wires a cheap meter will do fine, the terminal that had the 3 wires on becomes redundant the other 3 terminal will have 2 winding wires and a incoming phase on each of them. Have just had to do the same thing on a motor I've just fitted ! If you need advice on how to pair the winding let us know.

H

Well done Nick but must admit I had the total opposite happen to me, I live a couple of 100 yards from my local park so I thought it would be a great place to steam my 3" Burrell so I phone the head of parks for my local council told him what I would like to do and found that he was a little reticent I pointed out that once a year he had full size tracion engines in the park for a weekend "yes he said but they have paperwork and insurance" I told him I had all of that to which he replied "why did't you say your welcome to steam in the park any time"

H

Hi Brian not knowing your sizes have you thought of self adhesive circles Staples,ebay have them 8 - 25mm.

H

Attempted to change the motor on my Myford S7, to remove motor you must first remove the pulley well bloodied and battered 3 hrs later pulley 1 me 0 replay to be arranged

H

Know of one at Wombourne near Wolverhampton that as been turned into a tea room with some pleasant walks along the old track bed and though not a station not to far away in Essington a railway signal box which as been turned into a dwelling.

H

Clive

Don't know your young lady but have met her brother or boyfriend having remove our Methylene Chloride degreaser and replaced it with a energy hungry Aqueous wash plant I had two visit from people checking we were complying with the Montreal Protocol ! As a metal finishing company offering both Cyanide zinc finish and hard chrome we were targeted on a regular basis when the H&S knew given the nature of our work we would be working within and up to date with the regulations, and as I often reminded the inspector that whilst he was wasting his time checking on us the 'back street platers' and there were quite a few in the midlands were not complying and still disposing of effluent down the drain !!!

Just before I retired from work I made arrangements to hire a 'Geni' and I was using a different company to which I had used in the past, the hire company said I would need to sent the person who would be using the machine to them for training (no charge I must add ) I explained that my Forman had been for training at a previous company that i had hire machines from Ahhh he said that doesn't count the training must be on their machine .........

Try this link or go bigger link

David

Most inverters have ventilation slots/holes in their case as long as you make sure these are not directly exposed swarf and oil you should be ok

Michael

Yes those are the one's as you say very effective.

H

I'm no expert in the 'black art' of parting off, when I first tried it on my Myford with on of those parting blades in a holder my results were rubbish so I gave up, shortly after looking through the box's of tooling that came with the lathe when I purchased it I found two Sandvik parting blades and one holder so gave it a go and it cut through like butter so now I got brave and fitted the rear toolholder with a HSS tool I ground myself happy to say that too works OK but nothing like the Sandvik.