Member postings for Bodgit Fixit and Run

I really enjoy DIY and have at times done some "Interesting jobs" including, several years ago, rebuilding my chimney whilst using a bit of rope to hang onto "for safety".

A couple of years ago I had just removed a fireplace and was cleaning up afterwards when for reasons I won't bore you with I needed to check on the whereabouts of my dog, thinking she had got out of the front door. On my way to check I tripped over the hoover cable and broke my foot. You never know when an accident might happen. H&S is about common sense. Even then it doesn't always prevent accidents.

Information is useful. Unecessary legislation is not. Most of us carry out a risk assessment every time we cross the road. We just wouldn't recognise looking both ways as just that.

If I remember rightly even RoSPA and the health and safety Exec have said that much interpretation of H&S advice/legislation is rubbish and most requirements are fufilled by the use of common sense.

There is an allan screw locked swinging plate at the bottom under then driven pully. Also the diagram is a bit confusing. I can't get at mine at the moment because I'm going away but can upload some photos when I get back. Is yours just the lathe or the mill drill head as well.

Could it not be sparked?

Just a though.

Guess what I want for Christmas.

Know anyone with a spark eroder?

if it slips again try a small spot of superglue before pinching the clamp up.

I vaguely remember somthing about the coolant used being important as well but can't think what it was. Can anyone help please?

I have found working to the MetYard is accurate to within three Metrinches. However since tracking my car to the standard My tire wear seems to have increased. Any ideas fellas?

Edited By Bodgit Fixit and Run on 01/04/2015 08:25:08

'Ammer and cold chisel if all else fails.

OK here's what you do.

Take two pieces of wood to make an inverted T so as to form a wall.

Find the entry route for the mice / rats.

Put the wall accross the entrance

Put cheese on the inside of the wall.

Mouse visits and looks over the wall, sees the cheese, takes it and runs off.

Do this for about two weeks.

On the third week don't put cheese out. instead fasten a razor blade to the upright of the wall.

Mouse / rat visits. Looks over wall and sees no cheese.

In frustration the animal rapidly turns head from left to right saying to itself.

"Where's the bloody Chee..."

Problem solved.

Edited By Bodgit Fixit and Run on 11/02/2015 14:13:43

I made new tops for mine out of pine. Really sturdy.

Yep that's I would do it.

Thank you Andrew. I Learned something new today.

A Spiral starts at a centre point and flows away from said point in a circular path with a progressively increasing radius on a flat plane so is two dimentional.

A helix starts at a point on a circumference and rotates around the circumference at the same radius, if it is a parallel helix, moving forward with a given pitch eg. a screw thread. It can also move out with a progressive radius as on a cone. With the cone, when viewed from the tip, you can see a spiral in two dimentions but you won't see the helix as the always have effectively some form of forward motion.

Also, just in case someone notes, a helix can also have a variable pitch but I don't know why you would want one.

Spiral staircases are so called because of how they look from the plan view where the tread appears to rotate out around a given centre point ie the column. which geometrically is actually a cylinder with a very very deep thread with an equally deep pitch wrapped around it therefore a helix.

Edited By Bodgit Fixit and Run on 31/01/2015 15:48:43

Have you clocked the lathe internal morse taper to check for runout there? Then work outwards assembling the parts as you go. This should identify if the holder etc is running true and any accumilated error as it is set up.

Edited By Bodgit Fixit and Run on 22/01/2015 16:54:28

Could be that they realised that someone might not know what a No. 12 was, unless they were ordering a chinese takeaway?

We had to learn scraping as part of our apprenticeship. It has come in useful on several occasions since. Especially on things like car cylinder heads prior to refitting cos I couldn't afford to have them skimmed. it took hours but left a real sense of achievement.

Edited By Bodgit Fixit and Run on 13/01/2015 09:00:23

The best technique I have ever come accross which you can still see in use today is actually an old addage. "If you can't fit it... 'it it!!! also. If you can't find a G clamp micrometers work really well and come in a variety of sizes.

Edited By Bodgit Fixit and Run on 11/01/2015 09:41:35

Meccano was the root of the slang phrases "Bog Standard" and "Dog's Bo....x". They originated from the box sizes of Meccano which were "Box Standard" and "Box Delux".

I have also heard it siad but not totally sure but the mini suspension was designed using Mechano.

There is a rule in use within professions of "reasonable competence".

When faced with a question of competence the question is asked "What would a reasonably competent person / practitioner do" This has nothing to do with experience or training because the same rule is applied accross the board. If a reasonably competent person would not have done something then the view would be taken that it should not have been done. Likewise the converse is true.