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Documentary about the P38 lightning (mostly interviews / stories with pilots) Quite long at 1 1/2 hours ish but well worth a watch.

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That was worth waiting in and opening the door for.

Now you will be able to tackle those 'Elmers engines'

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Anybody lay claim to this being their clubs track.??

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2 people. Strongest one at the headstock end. Any more than that on a small machine and they would get in each others way.

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I have no experience of this range of lathes so I am perhaps talking broken biscuits here.

But it is no secret that increasing the mass and lowering the balance point of any machine tool is a good thing. Even more so the smaller they are.

As such I would be tempted not to store tools etc in the base cabinet cupboards but to take a trip to B&Q (or similar) and buy a few bags of sand or pea gravel and house them in the cabinet base cupboards. Perhaps even decanting them into smaller bags so one could get more in.

Just an idea. Perhaps a misguided one though.?

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He is going to get JS to come round and glare at it.! - Lathe will then be in fear and stand perfectly to attention and true for evermore.

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Ahhhhhhhhhh Now I know.

It's ARC's entire boxed up stock of this unsold and unwanted item. **LINK**

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Perhaps the delivery got lowered onto his foot and he is trapped on his driveway unable to move with the local kids throwing rotten tomatoes at him.

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Nahhh Jason,

This **LINK** is more like Yodell.

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OK serious guess.

Jason mentions "it is" as in the singular. So one item in a couple of boxes. It's also from ARC

My guess is it's a CNC milling machine. Yes / No. ?

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An inflatable Bouncy castle for the garden.?

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You been buying large amounts to get that quantity discount again Neil.?

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I am one of his 'stalkers' on youtube.

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Are you thinking of a bar-stock construction or a casting kit engine.?

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Charles. For heavens sake don't start machining bits of the 'as supplied' machine. Especially so by your own admission you have limited experience.

Keep contact with Warco who have it in their best interests to sort this for you. - Perhaps even link them to this thread so that they can see what steps and measurements have been taken already. This will eliminate and confusion over the telephone.

Start cutting metal from the machine at this stage and you will run the risk of Warco walking away.

Stay positive. ............ 5h1t happens.! But as I said it's in Warco's best interests to assist you.

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Or even aluminium for a nice light piston that will have less mass and assist the engine to run more smoothly at the lower speeds associated with beam engines.

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So basically it seems M&W have become to quality measuring kit what Libya has become to military bands.

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Just to be clear. Although I used the term 'Plasticky' the items I have are not actually the plastic range ones.

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M&W 'budget line' products are made in the far east.

I bought one of their verniers when I first started the ME malarkey. After a couple of months it started throwing random readings ever now and again. At first I thought it was me that kept making wrong measurements. Changed battery, cleaned etc.

Got to the stage where I did no longer trust it and it got binned.

Also have one of their 6" height guages that was I think about £100. Feels, looks and is generally low quality and 'plasticky' I am sure there are much better options out there for the money.  

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Edited By Nick_G on 28/08/2017 15:47:17