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Are you cutting brass now? That will grab.

Too much stick out on thin bar stock.

Is the chuck still holding within 3thou runout? If not it may be chips stuck in the chuck scroll.

Check the saddle rear gib has not come loose. Also try locking the saddle and use the top slide to take the sliding cut.

Your ring is fed through a 30A fuse as Mark says, you probably have a fuse wire card somewhere in your house to confirm it.

Your house is probably the only non-ancient one in the country that risks burning down when you run a kettle at the same time as the toaster in the kitchen. There is absolutely no need to keep taking the kettle upstairs to boil it.

try this thread model enginering clearing house note the water pump issues

That was probably a return by someone who wanted a 13A plug.

The previous release of '30A' machines (I have one) were Euro 40A /16A plug versions with the current limiting pot turned down and a 13A plug fitted. The lead is still 1.5sqmm.

Current ratings depend on how much heat you are prepared to accept in the cable. Companies like BT in the 90's were only happy with no heat rise above ambient due to PVC plasticizer migration at 60degC, their buildings have windows and the sun can cause that much heat on it's own. So cables were sized more generously than some of the cable tv firms.

In this case the shortness of the lead mitigates the issue and I doubt for DIY use you will notice much heat in the 5 minutes that you will have it cutting.

Hi Neil, there's a guy on Ebay who occasionally breaks Centecs.

There's not many who can produce work of that quality, your wife should be very proud of her dads work.

Missed your reply Bill, I guess they only wanted to know what they had 'aquired'.

Edited By Dave Halford on 07/03/2022 18:52:20

Taste is always a personal thing, but we like Orange Paruche F1 from Fothergill's. Also PGk's Golden 'something' are OK.

We had some self setters appear on the compost heap last year, some of which got potted up for a laugh. The results were two different Cherry type, one fruiting on fans over a foot wide plus a couple that went to Blossom End Rot so I'm pretty certain they were Elsa Craig that were dumped the year before for the same reason.

We hose the greenhouse down with Jeyes to give the Botrytis a hard time, plant in pots and use a £30 thermal window opener to keep the heat down.

Final picking in 2nd week of October last year due to the lateness of the self setters.

PS keeping seed does work on some, but you need to ferment the seed jelly coat off by soaking them in water for 2 or 3 days till the water gets all mouldy and nasty, then dry them for storage.

Edited By Dave Halford on 07/03/2022 16:50:43

The ventilated gap does work well

In the UK with only one desert the solar farms have grass grow beneath the panels, the answer to this is sheep.

My 1969/70 Rockola 443 juke box still has all but one of it's original caps.

It wont hurt the motor to try it.

Dyson's are easy to break, hence all the packaging.

Banbury Buildings is a possibility.

Zombie thread

Just been pinged by this one myself.

The link is not to a .gov website, which it would be.

Otherwise known as Back to Black which is a silicon oil spray. Also quite useful wiped on the car door seals when the temperatures drop below Zero when it acts a release agent on ice covered seals.

If you sell the gearbox then the leadscrew will have no support at that end and you will not be able to drive the cutting tools under power either, which makes a good finish harder to achieve.

Edited By Dave Halford on 25/02/2022 16:43:43

Your Mill looks like either the old Warco Economy or Major Mill (depending on size, the Major is pretty big.)

Warco should be able to help with the belt type and size if your existing ones aren't marked.

Diesel Power from the Fat of the Land album by Prodigy

That taper looks like a smaller version of the R8, I wonder if Bridgeport pinched it?

That's a nationwide thing.