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I prefer the version I once heard. When she was good, she was very good, but when she was bad, she was even better!

You’re correct, the normal ‘parking’ position is mouth down BUT....

in order to actually ring them, beforehand they are ‘rung up’ through half a rev and ‘parked’ mouth upright. From that point on, during the actual ringing they are swung through 360 degrees in one direction, then 360 degrees in the other. This can carry on continuously for anything from a few minutes on a practice night to over 4 hours for a full peal on heavy bells.

This animation shows the action...

https://washingtonringingsociety.org/galleries/animations

Apologies - duplicate post. 
 

Edited By Bodger Brian on 21/11/2020 08:24:48

It is a useful resource if one uses it as the basis for further research, as should information from any encyclopaedia.

One problem is that too many people take it as gospel. On another on-line forum, despite me quoting from a contemporary newspaper (late 19th century) about the date of a tram line being laid, someone insisted that I was wrong because Wikipedia gave another date

This is from Wikipedia itself.... “Wikipedia is not considered to be a reliable source as not everything in Wikipedia is accurate, comprehensive or unbiased”.

Fair enough, although I’m still slightly puzzled. I thought it was links to certain websites that was now a no-no, not merely naming companies. I’ve just spend an admittedly short period of time looking for the rules but couldn’t find them.

I’m not looking for any.

The reason for asking is that I’m perplexed by the amount of people who refuse to name eBay, calling it fleabay, evilbay, ‘that well known internet auction site’, ‘you know where on the internet’ etc, anything but eBay. For a long time I’ve been asking why but not one single person has ever put their hand up & explained themselves.

eBay, eBay, eBay, eBay, eBay, eBay. I’ve said it & the world is still going round!

Do you mean Amazon?

Which auction site? eBay? Why the reluctance to name them?

That’s fine in theory, not so good in practice. If I’m reading a thread discussing something that is of interest to me & I come across a comment about politics (for instance) that I don’t like, are you suggesting that I stop looking at the rest of the thread (it’s virtually guaranteed that more comments in the same vein will follow) and miss out on reading any subsequent comments relevant to the original post?

How does one find out if one doesn’t like something without looking at it?

I once heard football described as a gentleman’s game played by hooligans, as opposed to rugby, which is a hooligan’s game played by gentlemen.

I’ve never understood the logic of that, in that right & left are linear directions and clockwise & anti-clockwise are rotational. Try putting a spanner on a nut so that is vertically positioned below the nut, then push it to the right. What happens? On a conventional RH thread, it’ll loosen, the opposite result to what your adage suggests.

I have to say that this surprises me. I can’t comment on the moderation, as I assume a lot of it goes on in the background, but Jason has always struck me as one of the most helpful & unjudgemental posters on this forum. I could name a couple of other regular posters that definitely deserve to be ignored but that‘s not the point....

I design PCBs in my day job. Even on a fine pitch device, 5 thou is nothing. I don’t have any datasheets to hand but off the top of my head but I think that is normally less than the manufacturer’s tolerance for leg position. If it isn’t, a properly designed footprint will allow for it. Even if you’re talking about 5 thou off the surface of the PCB, a correctly applied solder joint will cope with it.

Brian

I have heard the terms c-clip & e-clip used for the same type of fastener, ie a sprung open washer with internal tabs, which locate in a groove on a shaft. Are they the same thing, with different names, or is it a case of minor differences such as the number of internal tabs?

Brian

Do you mean eBay? If so, why not say so? I'm puzzled as to why people continually say things like 'that well known auction site', 'fleabay', 'evilbay' etc.

What photos? I don’t see any, apart from adverts...,,

Brian

Thanks for the helpful comments, chaps. At the moment it’s a long way in the future but it looks as if it’s not unachievable - I like the idea that the wheels are a reasonable size & not in watchmaker territory.

Incidentally Gerry, I couldn’t agree more about imperial fractions!

Brian

During the current lock-down situation, my mind has been wandering on the subject of ‘one day in the (far) future’ projects.

Tower/turret clocks have always interested me & I’m wondering if John Wilding’s small tower clock is suitable for a total beginner to the world of clock making who has never even cut a gear, or is it similar to someone choosing a 7 1/4” 4-8-8-4 Big Boy as a first foray into loco building?

Thanks

Brian

Edited By Bodger Brian on 25/05/2020 20:05:08

Ok - thanks for the explanation. I don’t need any now but it’s a useful thing to file away in the brain for future use.

Sorry for the ‘stupid’ question but how does one tell that it’s the ‘original’ formula? What’s the difference between the old & the new?

Brian