Member postings for Nick Wheeler

Fixed that for you. They are NOT the same thing!

Do you really think that metric engineers/machinists/fabricators/etc can't do that, or judge by eye to similar precision?

Look again; the first answer(mine) asked why a dead blow hammer is 'necessary' for this job.

Why is a dead blow hammer needed for that job?

It's not a big mill, so the parts are going to be pretty small too. I've been known to use the hammer end of a large screwdriver....

£3 for a Snap-on ratchet screwdriver is a steal. It's the sort of thing that makes going to fleamarkets, bootfairs, autojumbles etc occasionally worthwhile. You cant go with a list of wants and expect to buy any of them.

Hammer an allen key into the hole.

Weld it to the screw

Undo with an impact wrench.

Drilling cap head screws is an exercise in desperation

the 10x22 lathes aren't difficult to carry that sort of distance by two people.

One person can easily lift a 7x12 onto the bench whenever it's needed.

A lathe is low and wide, so the weight doesn't try and tilt

The mill is tall and narrow, and you're tempted to hold it at the ends of the table. Laying it on its back makes it safer to move around, but doesn't help with lifting it onto a bench

The 10x22(mine is a Warco WM250) isn't a problem for two people to move around or down steps. We did remove the tailstock, compound slide and chuck, then wound the carriage as far left as possible to improve the balance a bit.

I don't have the cutter grinder, but if I did I would probably have roughed out the tool freehand, and done the final work on the Worden. That would probably halve the time by reducing a lot of the tedious 5thou at a time work.

It was impressive when hanging in Rochester Cathedral nave and was even better with the lights off when we left after ringing practice. It would have been truly stunning if they'd used photos with less cloud cover. I had to wonder if the skull was underneath it like Michel Granger's Oxygene cover art....

The similar moon exhibition was more impressive for some reason.

I haven't done much grinding because tipped tools do virtually everything I need, but 10mm tools on a mini-lathe is daft when you won't get to the limit of a 6mm one. That immediately saves money, time and effort. I do a lot of work with a 3mm tangential tool.

Rough out the tool with a coarse wheel or angle grinder and finish on the fine wheel. De-glaze it often.

A larger, tiltable table makes grinding the tool much easier. Draw or scribe some lines on it to give a better idea of the angles.

Practice with mild steel of the same size before getting too involved with the HSS.

I think you're going to be surprised by just how easy it is to torque a bolt to 30NM. Most people are overtightening small(and M8 are small) bolts by a considerable amount.

Have you never needed to warm a pot of something in the workshop? Paint? Glue? Stuck together thingy?

That just needs a coat of paint to move into the much better than it needs to be and I thought was going to be category

The Sprint engine is limited by this arrangement and by other questionable design decisions. While it is poor compared to its theoretical potential, it does make more power than 8valve versions of the same engine. Merlin V12s use a similar design, which is probably where they borrowed it from.

That.

Stuffing some sponge in the box in place of the filter is just going to make you feel better until the engine ingests some of it. It won't filter anything worthwhile. If you're really worried about not having a filter, fit the new one in the carpark before you drive home...

If you can weld, then a steady rest is easy to make from some thick wall tube and bar and some fitting.

Some years ago John Stevenson showed how he made large steadies from bolting laser cut pieces together, which is quick, easy and frugal.

Has anyone else seen Eddie Izzard's sketch about going back in time and 'explaining' how modern stuff works? The answer to how does the magic box that keeps things to a constant temperature that's less than ambient, or produces moving pictures is that it plugs in the wall.

An electrical device is now the universal solution to any problem, even for the instances when the correct answer is don't do it.

Why single out Youtube for that, when it's true of the entire internet?