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Curious - I have a VMB bought direct from Myford in 1998, and it has a floating intermediate pulley.

I use a bench I made nearly 50 years ago, to a design in a book called "The Complete Home Carpenter" . It has 2 top layers, the upper one of which is 3/4" chipboard, meant to be replaceable. I've replaced it three times in 50 years, so it lasts pretty well. If I'm going to be doing anything oily I cover it with a sheet of oil-tempered hardboard with a softwood lip around the bottom, which fits around the bench and holds it in place.

AFAIK, for a smart-meter to work you need a reliable mobile phone signal.

Thanks.

Thanks Neil. Does anyone happen to know how thick a layer of superglue is ? (or solder ?)

Probably not, but I don't know enough about it to be sure of that,

Doh ! Thanks, I can't imagine why I didn't think of that at the time.

And thanks for all the other suggested solutions folks, much appreciated.

I had the same - I rang Mortons and they're going to send me a replacement.

I made a pair of gunmetal bearing standards 4 thou too short vertically. I have some 4 thou brass shim, what's the best way to attach the brass to the gunmetal ?

Have you got a birthday coming up ?

Wasn't that the threat of a 'Nuclear Winter' if WW3 happened ?

People (particularly politicians and academics) who start every response to any question on the news with"So, blah".

Having had a medical suspension I re-applied for a licence last October. The only response so far was a letter in May thanking me for my 'recent' application, and asking me to re-do all the forms that I'd sent them with the original application.

Useless b**t***s !

Edited By Bob Unitt 1 on 19/07/2022 10:24:27

I usually ask them "Does your mother know what you do for a living ?!". This often gets a gratifyingly vituperative reaction from those calling from the far-east...

Years ago I used to look after some Honeywell mini-computers for a software developer. You could buy an upgrade to double the CPU speed, requiring an engineer visit. After a few upgrades I got to know the engineer quite well, and he showed me the single motherboard jumper that had to be removed to perform the upgrade...

Thanks. Still not working though - when I go to 'Account Settings' the only relevant setting would appear to be 'Thread Start Page', which has two options 'Default to first' and 'Default to last' - there's no 'latest posts' option anywhere.

Where do I find 'Preferences' ? I've found 'Settings' OK, but it's not there.

I bought a VMB direct from Myford in the 90's, having visited the factory. I was told by the guy selling it that what came from Taiwan was used pretty much as just a set of castings. They were completely stripped down, all the supplied electrics thrown away, casting-sand cleaned out, mating surfaces corrected as required, some bearings replaced, and then rebuilt with all-new electrics. They may also have replaced the motor, but I can't swear to that as it was some time ago. Certainly mine hasn't given me any trouble since I bought it.

If you don't like hospital parking charges, come to Wales, we've had free hospital parking since 2018. The amount of space available varies from hospital to hospital, but you can usually find an empty slot.

The best 'hospital parking' story I know of was in an English hospital. They had a big rebuilding program, and put a helicopter landing pad on the roof of the new A&E, thereby freeing up a lot of ground-level space for parking. By the time they'd finished the rebuild, they'd bought a new helicopter. The new one was too heavy for the rooftop-pad (which had been designed without any weight allowance for a replacement copter), so they had to take the parking spaces back for a ground-level landing-pad.

As far as I'm aware no administrator, architect or building company was ever penalised for not allowing any slack for possible replacements in the design phase...

I had a similar problem with my Myford VM-B drawbar, which hit the ceiling of my workshop. It was in a two-storey structure with a bedroom above. I cut a square hole in the workshop ceiling plasterboard, glued in a short piece of square drainpipe abutting the floorboard above, and cleaned out the insulation material in the gap. This gave me room to remove the drawbar with about 1/2" to spare.