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I will hold my hand up and say, you are right Fizzy. There are draw backs with all welding techniques.

Someone mentioned heat and buckling which on a car body may well be a significant factor. On the chassis less so. I renewed the spring hanger box section on a mark two Jaguar with 3mm plate which when finished rang like an anvil. Try that on a modern motor.

To retain the said optimum height for a mig isn't too easy as the umbilical cable is heavy after a while so I used a two handed pistol grip (lower hand setting the height) and where I could hung the cable over my shoulder.

Like any advice on here it may work for one but not the next.

Sure there's no substitute for paper of the right quality unless it has yellowed over the years. However reading magazines with shiny paper such as Model Engineer is made also has it's reading quality degraded. This shine usually forces the reader to re-angle the pages frequently to make them legible I find.

When reading from electronic screens I usually dim then down which reduces the glare and makes things easier on the eye.

A Scotsman once said to me, "Hawk eye the noo. If yea canny read that you need glasses pal." He was right.

Speedy: Many a true word spoken in jest. 

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Went grocery shopping and also bought a dust pan and brush the last one was Gorillard by a neighbour. (A bit like the micro scope!) The mind boggles or at least mine does.

John when you are finished perhaps you could introduce your customer to ye olde oil can and it's attributes.

It's my understanding that saw blades should protrude just enough to cut the material thickness and no more.

Best to check though because this is fact for wood, I'm not sure as for metal.

PS: I cut aluminium on my cheapo bandsaw with a fine metal tooth blade not much help as to your question but I think I would keep it as a grinder.

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Good luck Geoff. (not sarcasm)

Speedy : I love the Austin it even goes with the house.

In my opinion mig is cake on a plate mate. Set point squirt. Just make sure you're well out of any breezes and haven't been on the beer. Yes I do realise your talking TIG but I've far more expertise on MIG.

One problem however is the cost of hiring bottles and buying gas.

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Geoff so when are you moving into the shed?

I think the man is talking about being a paid up subscription member Bruce. What I didn't like about the magazine subscription was the slow progress (real time) waiting for the next instalment of a highlighted project to move on.

It's for this reason I hope an electronic magazine is devised where you can play and replay parts of the action your not sure about. The parts where it's second nature to you you can skip.

However are there enough people out there willing to have a go at video recording what, how and when? If not costing the magazine (Disc) could get very tricky not to mention those who prefer paper.

Perhaps the way to go would be to run it concurrently with the paper variety but detached as far as content and costing are concerned.

Excellent Neil I hope it works out particularly for an annual or even as a special on one subject similar too you know who paper backs.

Morning Steve, I would perhaps do a trial first as I lost a lot of books and magazines once by storing in the loft due to damp. My books were in tea chests which is perhaps not as good as your storage boxes. However I advise caution as you obviously value your magazines. Maybe try some old gardening mags over Winter first.

Storing anything here in my flat is difficult as there not that much storage space and no loft either. I hated doing it but I had to cancel my Magazines as a consequence. I might try the electronic variety once I've sorted my requirements machine wise.

I might be wrong but they may do an electronic version on disc for this site? I'm perhaps wrong.

In any event let the gang know how you get on.

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I missed the point here again so back to bed I think. There are however formula for bending on the net... Just google ( bending formula.)

At the expense of yet another edit: It's a pity the man didn't dimension the side elevation since scaling is a no no.

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Outside with a wind brake as the fumes can be very toxic. LOO?! How do you get two whales in a mini? ANS across the Seven bridge. How do you get two burly blokes in a loo casting parts for Viking swords for heavens sake?

I have a theory about Myford lathes and their second hand prices:

I blame the widows for trying to exact recompense for all those hours the husband spent in the shed wasting time when he could have taken her shopping for shoes or curtains.

As far as castings go I didn't dream of buying any back a ways, indeed I was busy paying for a mortgage wife and kids. There were lathes available Myford seemingly aimed at the modeller. I bought a worn out Harrison but had I had any sense I would have saved the money and torment for another day.

In any event most prices remain relative to the era as does the buying power of money. It's more or less the same with wages. I assume that with the introduction of cheap Chinese machines the demand for more castings has risen but whether they are any dearer or cheaper is I feel up for debate.

The only casting I did was in school and on one occasion I went home with holes in my socks after a crucible of molten metal was accidentally dropped on the deck. With no time to avoid it I watched amazed at the speed of the hot metal as it scurried off into the far corners of the work shop.

Hey Andy my memories of reading the Iliad failed me there for a while. You may well be right about hubris and it's connection with British management.

I'll bet the guy on the saws just loves putting his life into feeding those power saws, indeed I'll bet he can't wait to get in early and get started.

Andy: Hubris? or do you mean BS. Which over the years I have come to believe they are all full of.

Don't forget guys and dolls we are all in it together, it's only the depth which varies.

Well put Neil Andy they weren't against the new machines but they were against starving out on the street.

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John don't just drive by go and enquire, see if they will give you the tour don't just assume. The truth is that again the place is fully sorted there won't be 40 jobs it will be 4.

Perhaps in the next one hundred years there wont be any jobs however that's is then known as the horns of a dilemma because to purchase the products being made we need money and jobs!??

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I deleted the last bit of my previous post which read : I wait for those who will say "It was the unions and strikes etc which ruined the Car and Bike industries along with everything else." That is blatantly untrue.

Well Andrew I have news for you, it was bad management who felt they knew better than the men who were building the stuff. It was an American who believed in team work from top to bottom of any establishment which will bring success. The Japanese took this on board but Western Management didn't not until they had seen the quality and innovation which the Japanese were producing. By then of course it was too late.

As for miners and bin men all they were asking was for recognition of bad and dangerous conditions and a wage to suit. IMHO

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