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Thread: problem with digital vernier
13/01/2015 19:48:31

As far as being cold goes there's not a battery in the world that I know of that isn't affected, lithium, alcaline, nicad,lead-acid you name it. You only have to listen to cars starting up on a good frosty morning to realise what effect the cold has.

If it's possible (with out undue wear and tear on the battery cover) pop the battery out when not in use, and before replacing it in your vernier warm it up in your hand you should be able to extend battery life. This also stops corrosion often found in torches and the like.

Some verniers and other measuring devices have a solar array which helps as long as they are in a strong light source. In which case keep it under a light sourse as long and often as possible (without it being on). Occasionally Model engineer magazine give away a digital vernier but you do have to take out subscription for a year and ofcourse it is a one and only one time offer.

When replacing batteries try to obtain them from someone who has a large turnover in batteries, ensuring they are fairly new. Don't buy lots of batteries at once only enough for your needs. (refer previous note on supplier) Together these little tips may help keep your verniers going.

The best compromise I have found is a digital readout (numbers) which has mechanical movement like an odometer but that is only on a micrometer of mine. As backup I have a set of normal verniers but I also need my bifocals on to read them accurately these days.

Jesse.

Thread: Magazine subscriptions
13/01/2015 10:25:29

Hi Neil,

I really didn't want to post anything about this on here but seriously couldn't find any alternative to phoning and my next port of call was,,, the bank! However even this worried me as if I stopped my subs you might not be notified and perhaps more do do's hitting the proverbial.

Can't this be made more clear on your subsribe here ads?

Sincerely J Hancock.

13/01/2015 10:11:14

Anyone else with this problem...

After googling and using the search engine on here I find I can subscribe to the magazine of my choice as easy as pie.

However when stopping the said supply things aren't anywhere near as easy.

Why???? The answer to my mind is simple (PROFITS).

I have tried the phone number which played rubbish music in my ear for as long as I either cared to listen or cared to pay for the phone-Mobile.

I don't wish tto pay for your slow services. I don't wish to have to return magazines at my expence or wait for refunds and so on.

Why can I not stop my subscription on line?

This would be easy to achieve as far as I can see, by adding this service to your subscription pages a simple couple of button presses and presto.

Pleasse respond. Jesse Hancock.

EMAIL (jhancock133new@gmail.com)

PHONE (07434836858)

Thread: Magazine subscriptions
13/01/2015 09:11:30

Anyone else with this problem...

After googling and using the search engine on here I find I can subscribe to the magazine of my choice as easy as pie.

However when stopping the said supply things aren't anywhere near as easy.

Why???? The answer to my mind is simple (PROFITS).

I have tried the phone number which played rubbish music in my ear for as long as I either cared to listen or cared to pay for the phone-Mobile.

I don't wish tto pay for your slow services. I don't wish to have to return magazines at my expence or wait for refunds and so on.

Why can I not stop my subscription on line?

This would be easy to achieve as far as I can see, by adding this service to your subscription pages a simple couple of button presses and presto.

Pleasse respond. Jesse Hancock.

EMAIL (jhancock133new@gmail.com)

PHONE (07434836858)

Thread: What did you do today (2015)
10/01/2015 20:15:04

Hi Chasps: since buying a crosswork table I hit one of those dilemas which "I didn't think that through." syndrom reared it's ugly head. I slept on my choices which were send it back and get a smaller one or modify my drill stand to make it taller. In case you don't know I am going to use the table for spot drilling with the hope that my drilling becames somewhat more accurate.

Come the morning I trapsed over to my ex works and was soon in possession of a piece of 45mm dia bar. Back home and blow the Lathe will only take 300mm between centres. So yes I had to saw it in half with a hack saw, ugh!

Next I shaved the bar down at one end to 43mm dia. Easy peasy with my taper roller bearings in my little yellow lathe. Now over to the Micro Mill, Clarke CMD10 to whittle a grove to clear the seam of weld on the inside of the tube which supports the head of the drill. Yeay the darn chuck spun off and put a dig in my leg. Replaced it butting the chuck on tighter using a bit of oak so as not to mess up the cutter and this after cleaning the taper. Well we struggled on me and my yellow mill and since nothing had to be thou accurate I took the shaft off the mill when the groove measued .4mm deep.

Now will it fit? No I had to reload to the lathe a couple of times apply a bit of emery cloth. Try again mmmm nearly there. Darn it, it's stuck, can't get the piece out . A cup of coffee later and a leather mallet in hand and it was home snug as a bug in a rug.

I'm looking at the drill press right now with just one thing left to do and that's swop the heavy end to the bottom of the stand.

Makes ones day when there's a little sucess.

Jesse

Edited By Jesse Hancock 1 on 10/01/2015 20:16:45

Thread: Cheap milling machine light
10/01/2015 19:35:20

Machine Mart do a proper "Angle Poise" type lamp for £15 and a magnifier for £20

Yes I have one of those. It has come in for some heavy use over the time I've had it.

Just one criticism and that's the clamp. It comes out in your hand if you aren't too careful and with the head at full stretch the plastic come L shaped metal configuration tends to squirm its way off the bench. Upgrade that DIY wise and you have a winner.

Jesse

Thread: elf and safety gone mad
10/01/2015 15:12:07

I'm not sure whether it was because when Elf & Saftey got started I used to live on the job (more or less) or whether the Boss thought I had just a tad more common sense than the next guy. What ever his reasons I went along and played the game along with everyone else there. For my good behaviour I also attended the first aider courses every so often. Later and upon joining another company as a Quality Engineer (worrying all the foremen every time I appeared on the various lines, since I had the power to stop production at the first sign of something falling out of spec.) I was asked to do the self same thing for them and plodding around doing risk assessment aswell. By this time I really didn't want the frist aider job as it's a horrible responsibility especialy if there was a genuine accident but I thought it over and decided at worst I would have to stay with the casualty and hope he/she stayed alive until an ambulance arrived, (worst case senario) or take an unearned break. Happily most of the accidents were of the paper cut variety or that they had a headache and needed A.CO.HOLiday for which I used to send them back to their boss.

Over time I weaseled out of it but by then I had tended a few bad accidents which were caused in the main by people being stupid. That's not to say that I'm any different to anyone else as there has been more than one occasion when I have stopped myself doing something really daft and one time when I didn't. I payed for that with my left eye.

So in the end it's a case of keep your wits about you, don't let anyone or anything distract you if what you are doing is something potentially dangerous like driving. At the end of the day we are all responsible for ourselves and those around us. Elf and Safety has done it's job if like us on here are talking about it they have at least made us aware, yeah?

Jesse

Edited By Jesse Hancock 1 on 10/01/2015 15:15:11

09/01/2015 10:30:16

I have a theory on this sort of thing.

In short we have lost our manufacturing base and much of it to China and India it seems.

In no small part was this due to wages here in Britain and possibly the rest of the Western nations. Because if a bloke is willing to work for the price of a bowl of rice aday as opposed to whats needed to support a Western way of life there's just no comparison.

Business in Europe and North America were quick to see the benefits of Chinese and Indian production costs and so moved their production lock stock and barrel. Add to that no health and safety and millions of just begging for work to feed themselves.

Skills in China and India must be growing where as here in the west they are falling rapidly.

On the one hand it's great to be able to buy cheaply. I can't afford a Myford even now. But on the other hand how far will this go? When the money runs out here what do we as a nation to exist? We build very few ships, we only assemble cars which are bought in any volume. The same can be said of the motor cycle industry. Electical goods has also gone. Blah Blah Blah ad infinitum.

Jesse. Now depressed.

Edited By Jesse Hancock 1 on 09/01/2015 10:32:26

Thread: Marking out
08/01/2015 21:54:56

Thanks Jason I'll give it a whirl.

Also you have made me realise the short commings I have in my marking out tool box. Hmmm I'll see what's about out there.

Jesse

08/01/2015 13:11:02

Hi Gang, I have a bit of a head ache when it comes to marking out castings, specificly the Sea Lion block at the fly wheel end. I don't yet own dro's which worries me since I have heard the accuracy on this engine is very important. Any solid ideas welcome.

Thread: indexing table of modest dimensions
08/01/2015 10:59:14

Oh blimely you have just reminded me of an earlier excursion into the world of Model Engineering Bazyle, back then I bought an old very worn Harrison L5 9" gap bed lathe. It was delivered outside my drive on a pile of tyres as there was no lifting gear to be found. Talk about heart in your mouth. However it was the wrong time of life as I was supporting a young family back then, you know the sort of thing everyone did ... yeah work, that's what they called it. I could rabbit on about Britains decline in manual jobs but there's not much point. I actually remember going to Bristol ME club down on Templemeads station if memory serves back then.

The lathe didn't suffer a scratch dropping off the back of the seven ton flat bed but it took two burley neighbours and me to get it settled in the lean to. Phew it was a lump and we had nothing but some bits of round bar and a spade plus a good crow bar. I plugged it in as it had a single phase motor and away it went. Later I received some donations of odd bits of round bar scrap from the engineering shop next door to my works. Whoopee I could barely wait to get home and try a bit of turning with the stubby oddments of cutting tools still held in the confines of the lathes cupboard.

With everthing set I span her up and gingerly wound in the saddle screw, the tool touched and everything started jumping about, including me as I ran for the door. The short of it was that the ways were so worn and with my tool setting skills none existant and no bolts holding the lathe I was lucky to get away without injury.

Scrape the ways they said... No way I'm afraid no time, no money, a wife, kids, a car, a house, and what was then a huge mortgage. OH Well as the song was titled.

Jesse.

PS: I wonder if cheap Chinese tools are really that cheap. I have already changed to taper roller bearings on the lathe and have broken a set off gears on the mill. I'm just waiting for the other gears to smash before I change to a steel set. Ian there is a beautiful tractor or two on the tube but I guess you have seen those.

Edited By Jesse Hancock 1 on 08/01/2015 11:05:34

Edited By Jesse Hancock 1 on 08/01/2015 11:09:33

Thread: Lister Diesel Engine
08/01/2015 04:19:09

I'v never heard of burying castings until now, normally they are just stacked out in the open. The only casting I'v heard of that benefits from burying in the soil , is a cast iron fry pan, (you need two or three of them), after you have been using it for a while, and it's getting a bit caked up, take it out and bury it with just the handle sticking out(so you can find it)leave it there for a week or two, the worms will clean it up.

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Ditto to outside in a heap. That's where all Newmans of Yate(Now defunct) used to cure their's. I would have to be careful where I buried my frying pan as there are lots of hatchets, pets, old wives tails ~>. It has been known in certain Bristol suburbs to bury old cars aswell.

 

Edited By Jesse Hancock 1 on 08/01/2015 04:19:58

Thread: indexing table of modest dimensions
08/01/2015 03:33:12

Thanks for all your prompt replies. Special thanks? to AndyP and oh you just cost me £100.00.

For reference in the future The Lathe is a Clarke CL300M, The Mill is a Clark CMD10, the Bandsaw is a Power Performance PBS350 and the Bench Drill is a Power Performance POP350. They are all very cheap but keep me cheerful. I bought the Saw and Drill some years ago as I was a keen boat modeller but due to a downsize (Oh God where have I heard that before?) in cars, form a large estate to a AYGO I could no longer fit in the back of the car, it was an "A" class I used to sail here and there.

My ultimate project would be a petrol powered Holt Tractor, something I can play with and annoy the neighbours with at the same time.(Just Kidding) Maybe I could get it to tow the mower around Mmmmh...Dream on.

Jesse

Edited By Jesse Hancock 1 on 08/01/2015 03:35:18

Edited By Jesse Hancock 1 on 08/01/2015 03:37:21

07/01/2015 19:00:41

Hello all, my name is Jesse (Male) from the Bristol area and whilst I thought I knew a thing or two the last year has proven once again how wrong a person can be. To kick off with I have for thirty years hovered around the fringes of engineering but never really got my fingers or toes for that matter burnt and or even damp. Be that as it may, I have now bought a cheap Chinese lathe and a mill with a mind to producing some scrap or by chance an engine which works.

I have a question which after having spent the best part of a day franticly googling (index table) for my bench drill, is there such a thing? Oh and please don't point at the drill mill and say " You've got one." because it's restricted to about a half inch plunge, that is without reaching up to the top of the column and lowering whole head, which I find tends to draw my eye and attention away from the job in hand and fray my nerves.

There's one good thing about the products above and that is if they work with all the lack of excelence that they display then surely I can do as good.

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