Member postings for Alan Waddington 2

Femi NG120 ABS bandsaw is one of the best workshop investments iv’e ever made, never had a minutes bother with it, cuts clean and square every time, no matter what the material being cut. Makes all those generic Chinese clones look like junk......and i had several different flavours of them before the Femi.

Am interested to hear why you sent yours back OP ?

Am always a bit suspicious of engine cranes, a lot claim to be capable of lifting 2 tonnes......yeah right.

I bought a commercial vehicle one for peanuts, no one wanted it because it was stupidly huge. Rating fully closed 2800kg, and fully extended 800kg. The thing is seriously beefy
Donated it to a pal who cut it up and attached it to the back of his tractor. To give a sense of scale the mill in the pic has a 56” bed, and the tractor is approaching 6 tonne

Advice to the OP would be don’t bother, if you need something heavier duty, just buy one,no point compromising safety.

30th of October to be precise.......nice buy that

Have sold a couple of lathes that way, and a milling machine, which was bought by a very nice man in Malta.

Not everyone is a scammer, but personally i always collect with cash, money is too hard earned to gamble with.

Have you got a link to the tool, or a photo ? Asking because i bought a cheap 3 insert face mill once (Not from Arc) and it was useless, could never get a decent cut from it, and my mill is industrial sized.

Try running it with one insert and see if that makes any difference.

At the end of the day, plasma cutting and flame cutting etc are industrial processes, presumably expected to be machining with industrial sized machinery, which of course wouldn’t bat an eylid at a bit of a hardened skin. So not the suppliers fault in any way. Best way to get through it for a hobbyist would be to hit it with an angle grinder before attempting turning. As for the blow hole, just order a slightly oversized disc.

Sorry to break it to you, but classed as ‘immediately dangerous’ in the trade. Any attempt at repair would be a bodge. My advice is don’t use it, sell a kidney or whatever it takes and get a new one.

Buy it, Scotchbrite the rusty bits, stick on ebay With a £900 reserve.......job done

On my Colchester even when the locks are disengaged it can take a smack with a soft faced mallet for the chuck to pop off

No need to worry about charging points in flats, terraced streets etc, once they introduce charge per mile motoring, only the well heeled will be able to afford to run a car anyway.

Not so good on Ally

Second what Frances said, also bloody noisy, so earmuffs a faceshield, hat and scarf necessary in a confined space.

Got one here you can have for nothing if you can pick it up or arrange collection

I think castellated beams traditionally had hexagonal holes, because they were hand burned using an oxy acetylene torch. Straight lines are easier to burn by hand than circles. They bend like bananas when cut, we used to tack them together in a jig using metal wedges to straighten the halves back up.

No issues whatsoever in the workshop except welding with a head shield, and if you need to get really close to something in an awkward spot, like working on a car.

Not usually, suppose it depends on what vehicle it is and where the tank is located etc.

Bit of a thing of the past now welding sills on, but did loads in days gone by, never took tank out and lived to tell the tale.

Harrison did a slotted table for the L5, so could be to compliment that. Colour looks about right.

Snap on, buy secondhand, they’re good quality and always be worth good money if you sell them on.

Costco used to do a decent stainless range at reasonable money.

Look for an insulated fridge container. No need to mess about lining it then.

You can get a 40 footer with a roller door for around a grand plus vat and delivery.