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I'm going Saturday and the piggy bank contents are now poised to buy some stuff. I've even made a list! Mmmm, four day working week and then straight up the A1.

Martin, I bought a 1236 in January and upon taking a half decent cut I experienced serious chatter and similar patterns on work. This was all due to none of the gibs and slides being adjusted correctly, in other words they were all loose and the problems dissapeared when I got it adjusted correctly. Hope this helps.

Rick

Loosenut, all "normal" thread forms are triangular but vary by included angle. Acme threads take the form of, for the sake of argument, a square thread with sloping sides, the included angle being a mere 29 degrees. Hope this explains it for the uninitiated.

Rick

Good old reliable tap wrench Nick. I've got one nearly identical made by my dad when he was an apprentice at the Bryan Donkin Company in Chesterfield in the 1930's. I've also got one the same as Grahams from China which, upon it's second time of using broke. I simply tightened the handle onto the tap and the clamp which slides in the vees to hold the square cracked and fell in two! Thing was I'd put my dads wrench "somewhere safe" and operations ceased till I found it. It's now hanging up in plain sight. The Chinese one went through the door like a teddy out of a pram.

Rick

Right on Mike ! !

Rick

Just read issue 215. Neil, welcome to the editorship. Nice mix of articles. Poly vee belts eh? It may have been done in ME in the past but I dont take ME and so I appreciate this kind of thing in MEW. Stuff is bound to be repeated but why get uptight about it. Just move on to something that does interest you. I don't ( at the moment) read anything on CNC but I know the time will come when I want or need to know something about it and having my back issues I can easily find it. I recall articles on electroplating which I scanned through at the time but the occasion will arise when I need to plate something and the information is to hand to study in full. Keep the mix of articles flowing and make sure there is something of interest to everyone in each issue and you can't do much more. If you send out an issue with nothing of interest to anyone you really have gone wrong. I imagine to do that would need a great deal of effort. You can please some of the people all of the time and all of the people. . . .blah blah etc. I like the mag as do many more of the non complaining get stuff done in the workshop brigade. All the best for the future.

Rick

Michael, that's too good to bung on a machine and get swarf and cutting fluid on it!

Rick

Matt, I'm with Phil Whitley on this one based on my time in vehicle refinishing if you don't use the paint and apply it as per manufacturers instructions the thinner or solvent in the paint will affect the coat below. We used to get round this by using a sealer coat which would form a barrier between the coats but still provide adhesion. Sealer primers and surfacers were also used over hygroscopic etch primers if they needed to be left for any length of time due to the etch primer causing rust on ferrous substrates when they absorbed atmospheric moisture. Obviously dont apply sealers untill the paint is ready to accept it.

Rick

With 60 teeth and something that resembles 360 divisions you could be right.Quite what the missing part or parts are is still a mystery to me. Thinking cap on.

Rick

Care is the key. It's 44 years since the last time I saw a wheel burst. Even now it seems like yesterday. This was on a tool grinder which was not fitted with any kind of wheel guard. Aaaaaargh!!!!

Rick

Hello Robin, I've been using Sherwood taps, dies and drills for the last ten or eleven years and have found them to be good quality and reliable. Hope this helps.

Rick

Yes Neil I can hold off for a while. There's just so much to do I'll make the tailstock wait. (At the end of the bed)

Rick

Edited By Rick Kirkland 1 on 29/03/2014 15:25:44

Edited By Rick Kirkland 1 on 29/03/2014 15:26:33

Am I really reading this? Neck the bolts so they break! Whhaaat? I refer the forum to yesterdays comments made by the honourable Oompa Lumpa. I rest my case your honour.

Rick.

PS, if it was a joke then ha ha hee hee, thats a good one!

Meanwhile. . . . back in the workshop. .. . . . .

Rick

Oompa lumpa! Right on! Yeahhh!

Rick

I made sure she was out and she came back early and caught me with a BSA A7 cylinder head in the oven!

Rick

25mm dia electrical conduit. Cheaper than steam pipe and up to the job.

Rick

I left school 42 years ago so there will be a delay till I try to remember what I learned 70 years ago, however, I do remember there were certain people at school with me who learned nothing at all therefore they won't have the bother of remembering what they learned 70 years on! I do remember that we were taught usefull stuff as opposed to how to be a celebrity/journalist/PR "consultant" / media anylist/ feng shui ist/ don't get me started. So daveb, you had flogging eh? Well let me tell you that was luxury to what we had laddy me boy!

Rick

Yes it is Roy. Back in the good old days before school involved staring at a computer screen all day long!

Rick.

Hello Nick Farr, I admit I'm a bit behind the times. I'm using my old Fenner Design manual, number 110 of 1979. Very last century.! I think the changes came about when the overall belt depth was reduced slightly probably to get more belts out of the same volume of raw material. As a point of academic interest Tom Walshaw,( Tubal Cain) also qoutes these figures in Model Engineers Handbook of 1980, but as you say your given figures will provide a satisfactory value. We all live and learn.

Rick