Member postings for Roger Provins 2

I had a vague hope that exports to US might have included imperial size collets but no luck. I do have a small Jacobs chuck with a 6mm plain shaft. Far from ideal but .....

I can confirm that the maximum cutter shaft the BFW40/e collets will accept is 6mm. Despite much web searching I've not found any larger collets.

No adverts here. Does seem expensive at about 140 quid

Edited By Roger Provins 2 on 28/02/2016 11:29:40

Spark testing to identify different metals can be very informative - as well as fun.

http://www.scrapmetaljunkie.com/241/the-spark-test-and-spark-testing-metals-2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D094eBa4S7c

I'm a bit of an early bird as I'm radio amateur and it's a good time for Australia/New Zealand contacts.

Hi Ian,

I find the 3" fine but the 4" should fit as there seems to be enough room and it would probably be a bit better.

Rog

I watched it the first time it was aired, forget when but a few months back, so it ought to be available on iPlayer by now.

Been using Hermes for years sending an average of 4 parcels a week and receiving 1 or 2. No problems.

Rog

I have a box of those, they're very good and he also does four other different boxed selections.

Rog

There was and early post on this subject.

http://www.model-engineer.co.uk/forums/postings.asp?th=44783

Edited By Roger Provins 2 on 21/02/2016 07:26:43

eBay item number 131720676238 is in UK and said to be ground stock. I would send the seller a message seeing if he will select you a piece that's precisely 3.00mm Many eBay sellers are very helpful.

That's the information I couldn't get clearly stated so, that being the case, I'll probably take out a print and digital subscription shortly.

sorry wrong thread

Edited By Roger Provins 2 on 13/02/2016 18:04:35

Never thought about it before but have just measured my old Chinese 9 x 20 and it's 90 degrees.

Ctrl v also pastes the clipboard directly  (to be sure to be sure)(to be sure to be sure)

Edited By Roger Provins 2 on 10/02/2016 15:25:31

I had a friend who set up his workshop in an upstairs spare room, lathe, mill the lot. It was not ideal, too much noise in the house and, despite all precautions, swarf did get carried around the house.

A shed down the garden is okay until it's pouring with rain.

Best bet is an adjoining garage and leave the car outside (they're weather-proof and don't need cosseting)

Will,

Unix, from which Linux is derived has been around since the late 1970's when you were still a young man. So it's not so much something new as that something passed by you unnoticed

Rog

As there's a Linux alternative to most Windows programs what will you want to run in Wine?

Looks good!, Out of interest how long did it take to print?

Edited By Roger Provins 2 on 03/02/2016 15:41:00