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I had a dewalt 3 phase radial arm saw set up to cut a longish taper on the end of 100 x 50 x 6 aluminium channel.......it was a regular repeat job, and it scared the hell out of me every time......ear defenders, face shield, overalls, gloves, a scarf and finally a welding cap backwards, and still the hot chips always found a chink in my defences.

If you know what thread it is, someone on here might have one.

Iv'e used these **LINK** in the past when i didn't have time to visit my local stockists.

Had a bike I built featured in BSH many moons ago, made front cover too which was nice.........Think it was May 1996 , look out for 'Silver Machine' or something similar.......Happy carefree days they were, I even had hair back then.

I could be missing something, but it's quite normal for the drain to be 2" from the wall, otherwise the soil stack clips would need packing off the wall when serving an upstairs bathroom. The elbow usually ends up partially inside the brickwork.

Atlas Copco sell a silencing hood for the L series V twins that brings the noise down to a similar level. They sometimes come up on Ebay.

This is the one I'm on about.....quite often see them for sale without the tank.

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My current compressor is a V twin Atlas Copco, direct drive, which is reasonably quiet, worth considering if you can't find a suitable Hydrovane.

Although i find the best and cheapest solution for noise is to stick your compressor outside in a shed.

Thanks for posting that.......

Interesting, bewildering, but interesting. So many variables. 90% of my carbide tooling is from autojumbles, car boots and ebay so hardly optimised for the job, found the part about chip formation quite enlightening , and never realised carbide face mills were actually designed to work better when climb milling.

Are you thinking of using an abrasive cut off disc, or a carbide saw blade ? Either way I reckon t's a non starter,a decent bandsaw or guillotine would whip through those in no time, better to get the steel stockholder to do it.

My local steel place doesn't charge loads for cutting, not compared to the cost of the material anyhow. 200 x 12 flat, won't be cheap especially if you don't have an account.

Edited By Alan Waddington 2 on 27/01/2017 07:52:28

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Quite clearly whoever charged with selling doesn't have a clue how to maximise the return on what they have.

they've had a quick butchers at the cost prices, added them roughly together and formed a guesstimate.

It could fetch good money if split up into individual lots, although I doubt even then that there's anywhere near £20k

in it, unless those drawers and cabinets are stuffed full of nice things.

Don't suppose it will matter one way or tother once we shuffle off Ian, but if you're anything like me, the missus will be under the illusion that your workshop contents are worth bugger all......some lucky sod will get a bargain

I wasn't suggesting it was a good price mate, just a sad epitaph to someone's life.......the smock hanging up says it all ......

Edited By Alan Waddington 2 on 25/01/2017 22:00:21

Anyone we know ? Nice setup, quite sad really.............

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Not used the latest stuff, but AFAIK hammerite thinners used to be Xylene.

like most xylene based paints, you had to recoat when the first coat was touch dry, or leave for at least 48hrs otherwise it crizzled.

I do it because that is how I was taught as an apprentice, back then it was best not to question "why" too much, you just accepted that those telling you to do something we're doing so for a good reason.

Maybe it comes from days gone by, when chucks were not quite as precisely made as later offerings ? Or as a method of double checking you had actually tightened it at all.

I doubt that in my 50's I'll be breaking the habit any time soon.

There's a chap who sometimes advertises on Homeworkshop offering a cutter sharpening service, with the proceeds going to charity. Don't have any details for him unfortunately, but I'm sure someone will have them.

Let's make this a bit easier ........

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Worth mentioning that you can easily build your own Rotary Phase Converter, plenty of info on the web including circuit diagrams.

I built one to run a Harrison L5a, worked a treat and cost less than £50 in parts, infact its still in use 20 years on, powering my pedestal drill which has a two speed motor.

At one point i had a workshop with 3 phase and ran the Harrison from it thinking it would run better than on the RPC.....it didn't, there was no discernible difference.

Only bugbear with RPC's is the noise of the idler motor gets on your nerves, i keep meaning to relocate mine to the shed. On the Harrison i had the idler motor mounted inside the lathe cabinet, so you didn't notice it so much.