Member postings for Neil Wyatt

Coincidentally I found this in my 'archive of interesting things' yesterday:

Neil

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Neil

Not in my photos from around 2015, I'm afraid.

Neil

Steve, I'm not sure sarcasm is the most effective way of avoiding argument.

There's no issue about discussing 3 phase on the forum. My own article::

www.model-engineer.co.uk/news/article/3-phase-conversion-and-other-alternative-methods-of-powering-a-mini-lathe/18752

But obviously, people should only work with mains voltages if they are competent to do so.

One area that will always be one of contention is proper shielding for RFI - not helped by some manufacturer's guidance being completely contradictory to that of other manufacturers.

Neil

Is it safe to assume this is much smaller than the photo makes it appear?

(Unless it is for horse's teeth...)

Neil

I have learnt that, if you are patient and careful, willing to take advice and to do things again if they go wrong, you can achieve things way beyond what you thought you were capable of.

Neil

Oh dear this all seems to be getting a bit overheated (sic).

Perhaps everyone could calm down a bit, before we have to lock the thread?

Neil

Hi, the standard advice is below, but you can also email [email protected] or classicmagazines.co.uk/contact for help.

Neil

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1/8" works well for me too. One piece 6" long can make a dozen tools.

Neil

It's very difficult to get this right. Unfortunately, photos rarely fall evenly through an article, and even if they do sometimes, there are other limitations due to the need to crop or resize. We try hard to keep all the photos in the same issue as the text but failed to do this on one article in the last issue, which is rare but was frustrating.

At least we try very hard to avoid orphaning the last few paragraphs as Jason describes (this was more common in US publications in the past) and has become easier to do now we can resize things relatively easily.

As John says, drop me an email if you'd like to try your hand at an article. New authors are always welcome, and I suggest starting with something relatively short.

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Thanks,

Neil

For issue 324 of MEW and the upcoming issue of ME please send your free ads to [email protected] by tomorrow (Friday) lunchtime.

Sorry for short notice!

Thanks,

Neil

Great old reel showing some interesting maintenance work and heavy machining.

And some other interesting stuff (cars if you rewind to the start).

They do marvels for my dad. He missed them for over two years due to covid restrictions, but when he finally got a 'top up course' it worked wonders.

There's always intravenous Marmite as an option...

Neil

May I take this opportunity to wish you and all forum members, subscribers and contributors as well as your families and friends the very best for a Happy Christmas and a peaceful New Year.

Thanks to all of you for supporting the forum and the magazines. I hope you have enjoyed what we have been able to share over the past year and look forward to

Also, a thank you to moderators Jason, Dave and Mike for their (mostly) invisible work in keeping the forum free of clutter.

My little 'Christmas Card' may seem cheeky, but what could be a better symbol of hope for the future than Shackleton's Endurance?

The very best to you all!

Neil and everyone at Mortons.

Awesome!

Are you not allowed to sell surplus energy to neighbours?

You may find some UK figures interesting. Here we generated 4.6% of our power by solar over the last year, but being winter only 1.1% over the past week.

For wind power the figures are roughly 32% and 28% respectively. There is some argument about where, but this is going to be a huge part our power mix in the future.

Coal is a third of solar over the year, but gas still makes up over 40%.

Nuclear is about 17%; most people have accepted it has an important role as a lower carbon way of balancing the base load.

National Grid power sources

Finally, here in Wales we are looking to see if there's a way to harness rain power

Neil

Edit... over the last 24 hours over 48% of UK power was from wind generation.

Edited By Neil Wyatt on 21/12/2022 20:45:01

Sorry about this, it seems to be an intermittent fault and the server has to be ''kicked' from time to time.

Neil

Hi Coggy,

Sorry for your problems and glad this finally got sorted.

Neil

No... pot magnets are the ones used for storing saucepans...

Presumably that workshop is in Bangledesh?


I'll get my coat...

I heard a report on R4 last night about 'banking hubs' being set up in towns that lose their last 'real bank'. These will have shared staff for half a dozen or so major banks, funded in proportion to how many customers they have locally, and use the Post Office system for clearing.

Neil