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Another skill lost. I worry not for myself, I'm too old, but for the next generation and of course Mr Cameroon and his drive to employ those lazy good for nothing.....

Like another clever bloke said we can't all be Bankers.

Jesse

Edited By Jesse Hancock 1 on 19/02/2015 12:19:45

Hi Danny you are bringing back lots of memories for me. I had a tame talking magpie back aways but over here they are a somewhat smaller species. Aussie ones get rather aggressive in spring raising their young and swooping on people I remember.

Do you have stumpy tails around yours and by the way the blue tongue is a Skink I think you'll find not that it matters. My mother had photos of dead Brown Grass snakes fully fourteen feet in length and capable of taking ten baby chickens in one sitting. Best defence/offence was a piece of fencing wire doubled to form a handle and chop the snake into pieces. Sounds barbarous but people felt it necessary back then.

Jesse

No problems here in blighty but in Australia we used to have trouble with them bounding over fences and wrecking cars on the highway as happened to us when one wrote off a Humber Super Snipe! This one decided to cross the road without any indication whatever. Oh wait those were Kangaroos.

Seriously though my dad bought an air rifle and baited the mice with freshly cooked bacon or a ball fat from the frying pan. The cat was over whelmed by them so needed help.

We had a big black cat when we lived here in the English countryside but he was only interested in hunting rabbits the remains of which I had to clear off the lawn. I kid you not.

Jesse

Edited By Jesse Hancock 1 on 19/02/2015 10:56:35

Yes bottled GAS from B.O.C or similar is prohibitively expensive to rent for a lone amateur. I know from experience when welding a steel boat. It may be possible, if needs be, to bring several members of a club together to share the expense? Bring back colleges with night school classes.

Plumbers used to carry a port a pack oxygen acetylene from the above but because of rising rent prices they too have gone over to MAPP. My son, being a plumber, uses a Rothmanberg torch both as a cigarette lighter and a soldering torch! I suspect as usual you pay your money and get what you pay for.

Note: there will be a small burn off of the residue gas in the torch neck, so don't be tempted to tweak them too hard when turning them off.

If treated with care they will last a long time.

Jesse

I see a tiny chink of light for British race enthusiasts and about time. Mmmm wonder what British cars they will race?

Aah I got it BMW's yay.

Edited By Jesse Hancock 1 on 18/02/2015 19:10:37

Yeah nice site Harold.

That's a true observation about the Chinese sites but darn it I can't speak any one of their hundred dialects, nor read those squigley lines.

Nicholas I feel your pain. Neil me no understand how this work on mill?

Jesse

According to my logic Boot Sales are perhaps a big contributer to shed thefts. I haven't been to one for a couple of years now but the Wife and I got into a sort of habitual routine of plodding around boot sales.

If you are a member of the general public and decide to sell at a boot sale you will find that it doesn't take long before you are taking the dregs of your possessions back home since no one wants them. That is your junk is definately junk after all. (Usual disclaimers here apply since I'm not up to speed on this subject)

On the other hand I have seen people set up week after week and sell the same sort of items which on the face of it must be contrary to the law under the designation of boot sale. Markets are different having rent to pay and a hawkers licence to sell I think.

Then there's the times I look at an item and think... what you can't buy a decent pair of shoelaces for that money! It's very tempting but beware because if the law should happen by and tie your recent purchase into a burgalry you could be up for handling and all that emplies or at least you may loose your purchase, confiscated by the police.

Always get registration number off the van and a name and address of the vendor if possible. If Plod pays you a visit then at least you may be able to point him in the righht direction. If the seller is reluctant to comply then do us all a favour and walk away. It's also a good idea to limit the amount of money you intend to spend to how much you can afford to loose. There is no guarantee at these sales so be on your guard.

I lost a complete garage load of tools to theives and there is no doubt in my mind where they took them to get rid of them.

Jesse.

PS: You could always insure your stuff but it is a one way cash drain.

Edited By Jesse Hancock 1 on 13/02/2015 19:25:36

Great minds think alike and all that. Yes a pulley wheel job done. It's not that I hadn't thought about that but then there's making a suitable insert for the top of the post and so on. I really wanted a quick fix, but I thank you for your suggestion Ian and perhaps as a more perminant job I'll do that one day.

Bob that's the ticket I fancy and it's exactly that sort of thing I was looking for just yesterday, so it's off to screwfix I go.

Cheers Jesse

My latest quest is to find a spring not the watery type (so put away your divining or dowsing rods) but a tension type spring to replace the one on an old B&Q hand drill stand. You know the ones, cast alloy base and chromed tubular upright post. It has a lever on the side which gives about 2.5" movement and was meant to take ye old Black and Decker hand drill. This I deem may suffice as a holder for the Dremel to enable me to kiss a small divet in a job hopefully enabling more accurate placing of holes when used in conjunction with my cross table. Notably this replacement should not require Arnold Swartzeneger arms and shoulders as it does at the moment.

So fellow questers where do I find a tension spring 3 1/2" long over all with a pull of just a couple of pounds enough to lift the drill (Dremel) back to park position? (waits for cries of how long is a piece of spring?)

Wandered around one of those wonderful modern emporiums just yesterday expecting to find one of those compartmented boxes which contains an assortment of springs, yeah you know, see through lid yellow body full of springs of which most will never have a use. Could I find one? Could I heck as like.

Now that was yesterday I wonder if I can find a suitable rubber band???

Jesse

As I look around me it reminds me that only a short time ago I used to build boats and all the tools I needed fitted into a small box which tucked away in the bedroom.

Now I produce some swarf, chippings, filings and coils of metal from drill bits. The rest of my time is taken up ordering tools which I (might) use more than once, rereading plans and worrying (is that hole in the right place?) changing tools, hoovering up and searching for that gismo I know I have.... because I put it away safely.... somewhere???? Most importantly I'm running out of space to put my coffee cup.

I now know why it takes four years plus to produce an engine which doesn't work!!??

Jesse

Neil.... Yes Penny in Big Bang Theory she looks quite sexy too.

Jesse.

Neil, Jason thanks again. I had dug out some ordinary grease but something told me to ask.

I love this web site, I might have to take out subscription considering the money I'm saving on broken tools etc.

David I wear what are called bifocles that is they have a smaller lens built in at the lower third (or there abouts) of the lens. It's a job for an optician though because the extra lens has to be placed out of your normal line of sight. Mine are a god send as it saves changing specs all the time.

I started with just reading specs and due to people calling me down to the shop floor I got lazy and left the specs on which in the long run weakened my sight and necessetated the use of bifocles. The heavy lens is for reading and the other for crashing the car and walking into lamp posts!!! I really must get to the opticians.

PS: I don't get on with those varifocal jobbies, they make me feel queasy.

Jesse.

That's neat Jason. I'm still pondering the carburetter castings for the Seal. Flicked the main body out of the lathe just the other day. Didn't do the manifold flange a lot of good. Have you any tips on aluminium turning?

Earlier I was trying out my new boring head on the mill. Worked a treat, quite an addictive process. My only complaint was that the cutting tool kept growing an aluminium toe/bur which could but due to cleaning regime didn't mar the cut.

Jason I can't cool parts on the mill (no catchment for liquid yet), so some sort of cutting gunk????

Jesse

Yeah it's interesting but I think I'd rather spend the money on a set of dro's for the mill. I remember buying a Commodor 64 for the kids (and me) back in 1983 thinking that because I was interested in all things computer wise they would be too. How wrong I was the only thing they seemed to be interested in was loading game after game into the memory, at 20minutes a throw, which was just as likely to finish with an error or perchance playing Falkland Patrol when it did load.

My advice is wait five years and perhaps get one off Ebaby for a tenner maybe.

Jesse

Ah Haa, this could be one of the million and one reasons Raleigh closed up shop in Nottingham. On the other hand it could be a million and one other things like a spoke tensioner??

On reflection I think Fizzy is closer than I.

Edited By Jesse Hancock 1 on 11/02/2015 08:54:21

Ah yes it helps to read parts of an inch not millimeters. I feel a bit more confident now cheers guys.

Jesse.

Edited By Jesse Hancock 1 on 10/02/2015 16:41:00

Hi Jason and Gary, are we reading off the same sheet here as a No. 70 is .028 of a millimetre is it not? Maybe I have it wrong but we are talking a jet in a carburetter for a 30cc engine here!?

The smallest drill I have used is a .5mm which to my mind is pretty small but a No 70 is less than 1/3rd of a millimetre.

Jesse

I have read somewhere that the worst of the Sealion build is perhaps the crank. I'm not about to argue with that but I get the jitters when drilling small holes. I've drilled 1mm holes and still have the drill in the rack. Phew! However a No. 70 drill for the jet tube is in a different league!!

Have read "Small hole drilling in stainless thread."

Any tips, tools used etc that may help in a successful endevour will be much appreciated.

I'm no millionaire but I am willing to purchase a fine feel drilling rig for this job if that's what is necessary upon recommendation.

Yours truly, I must change my nappy now Jesse.

PS: On a none related topic my new milling head arrived today YAH! No instructions whatever BOO.