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And my 79 Triumph and 89 Guzzi....

Posted by Mick Dobson on 06/08/2018 12:24:17:

Triumph motorcycles from Hinckley.

Well, at least for the first 10 years or so of production. They seem to have lost some of the individual 'Britishness' now, but still high quality desirable machines.

I have a '93 Trident, but normally ride my '93 Moto Guzzi.

Regards,

Mick

It's increasingly difficult to say which country any vehicle is "made" in. 100% sourced? Assembled? Designed? Badged? Here's an interesting comment from Triumph **LINK**

Far easier to pick a component and say where it was manufactured. I'm sure the same argument goes for much of the rest of industry. Where are Boeing and Airbus aircraft manufactured? My mate's little engineering company in the West Midlands (you'll never have heard of them) makes some of the bits.

Edited By Phil Stevenson on 06/08/2018 13:27:52

Finally got around to making a Tangential tool holder -- been on the "to do" list for some time so drew a plan last night then modified it as work progressed ! Borrowed some ideas seen on here for the design.

Works well on trial cuts with an off hand ground tool to the 30deg angle -- tool grinding jig tomorrow maybe plus I'll case harden it next time i have the furnace on.

Most people seem to say the angle for sharpening should be 30deg across the diagonal which is the angle I used for a test but I did some calculations and I reckon 25deg will give a 10deg rake top and side -- more than enough -- any comments ?

John

Edited By JohnF on 05/08/2018 23:12:06

With all the cottage industries serving the vintage bike scene these days, I'd keep looking around for replacement parts. There must be some out there somewhere, or somebody making them. What model Velo are they from?

Edited By Hopper on 06/08/2018 01:57:21

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Fine in principle, but are you familiar with the Cowells lathe ? : **LINK**

http://www.cowells.com/90me.htm

MichaelG.

Before BAE blew the wheels off the Honda-Rover partnership, you could buy the same basic car from either, as either the Rover 200 or the Honda Civic. The 200 had a the unreliable Rover K Series engine and crap build quality, whereas the Civic had a Honda engine and was built by Honda on their own line. As if that wasn't enough, the Rover actually cost more. Why have cotton when you could have silk.

I was mightily relieved when Rover finally went out of business. It was both a national tragedy (not least for the workforce) and a downright embarrassment - and the people who ran it towards the end (Towers et al) seemed to behave like criminals, selling the assets for their personal gain at the expense of the pensioners.

The Roewe brand lives on in China and we have now started to see some of the new MG vehicles on the roads here. Wouldn't be surprised to find they are better engineered and more reliable than the old Rovers, despite being substantially Chinese.

Murray

**LINK**

Dumpys Rusty Nuts were always good entertainment.

Mike

A Boxford part of system capable of 125 mm alu and 100 mm mild steel

https://www.homemodelenginemachinist.com/threads/selecting-and-using-tungsten-carbide-partoff-tooling-long.10176/

I never got round to making a rear,upside down version as my crosslide had no T tracks

just asking.....

is a rear tool post better than the front sort......I was under the impression that it was better for the smaller lathes.....

IAN's SC photo shows a monster lathe with 1........

reason:-

I'm still not happy with the parting off results on my Student 6" sqaure top lathe.........have tried tipped as well as HSS, best results so far are with a Co/Hss with a slight groove on the top edge like Mark Rand.......

to the point if it's bigger than 35mm I'll use the band saw and then go back to the lathe, the small stuff just use the hack saw.......

and before u ask all the gibs are tight and well adjusted, saddle locked, high speed and plenty of pumped coolant.......I make high speed the next speed up in the gearbox from the turning speed.....ie. if I turn at 500 the next up may be 800rpm........the high speed parting seems more reliable.........

just sick of buying new tipped tool holders.....did make my own parting tool holder that sit's right next to the mounting stud for the tool block......but it's a faf to take it on and off all the time.......main tool holder is the Dickinson type....always thought that the parting tool with the Dickenson holder was to far out, away from the body.......

be interested on ur thoughts.........

Does that include BSW/UNC/Metric coarse?

Edited By Mark Rand on 12/07/2018 23:00:40

Politics best avoided. I have a good friend. We get on really well, but he's still first up against the wall when I'm in charge...

I was even more surprised to see him brush swarf away with his bare hands, is this man a god?

Nice clamps though, although his machining skils and tooling means that he probably made them, just because he could, I'm somewhat envious.