Member postings for Bodger Brian

In case anyone wants to hear both sides, this is the position of the West Somerset Railway.
https://www.west-somerset-railway.co.uk/news/detail/west-somerset-railway-board-statement-regarding-washford

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Brian

Edited By JasonB on 12/03/2020 07:06:50

How are they making life difficult? If you don’t their prices (or anyone else’s for that matter), don’t buy from them.

i don’t see what the problem is.

Brian

I’ve got nowhere near that amount of experience but I’m not really surely instructions are necessary...

Thanks Clive, I think I’m getting there but I’m still slightly confused.

It appears to me that you’re suggesting that the offset is always 1 thou (+half the ball width). Is that right? If not, I’m still none the wiser on how the offset is found. Am I really being dim?

Brian

Clive - thanks for the explanation. Unfortunately you lost me after the first sentence, which I hasten to add is due to my comprehension skills rather than than your writing. Never mind, I’ll return to it at some point and see if it’s any clearer.

A DRO is something that I’ve often thought about but never could justify the cost of.

Brian

I bought a set many years ago & couldn’t figure out why I kept getting inaccurate results, so the set has stayed unused in a drawer ever since. I presume the ‘small offset’ was the reason.

How does one know or work out what that offset is? Surely without having a figure, the whole exercise is a bit pointless.

Brian

The fact that you think they're not interested in private buyers implies that you haven't spoken to them. So how can you then claim that their sales people aren't reputable?

Having student versions of software is nothing new - Microsoft have been doing it for years with their Office products.
It's a similar idea that my employers follow. They design & manufacture professional audio consoles and one particular market that is always of interest is colleges / training institutes. Get students / future sound engineers familiar with your own products & those are the ones you hope they'll want to use in the future.
That doesn't sound cynical - I say it's good business practice.

Brian

Which country? It helps with requests like this if you say where you are.

Brian

Edited By Bodger Brian on 23/06/2019 18:43:32

Maybe things have changed since I last bought something but it used to be that one put one’s maximum bid in. The actual bid that showed would only be a certain amount above the existing bid, then eBay would automatically increase your bid in stages if anyone bettered it, up to your maximum. At no point could a rival bidder actually see what your maximum was.

Brian

I’ve bought quite a few (low value) items on eBay and have never used a sniping program. On occasions, if the end of the auction is at a convenient time, I have manually sniped. However, generally I decide what i’m willing to pay, bid that as my maximum and if someone wants to pay more and/or is desperate to buy it, then so be it.

Brian

Neil - thanks for the confirmation. I was pretty sure I had it right, as every other way of calculating it I tried gave nonsense figures.

I'm glad the pendulum length confirms it as a long case clock, as I quite like the idea of having one. As it's only the movement I have, I don't feel too constrained to match movement, dial, and case etc so it'll probably end up as a bitsa-clock.

I think my next step is to figure out how the striking mechanism works before I dismantle it. I have a book by Donald de Carle that was recommended to me a while ago but I don't find his descriptions particularly easy to follow or match to the accompanying diagrams.

Brian

In a very rash moment, I’ve purchased a cheap second-hand weight driven clock movement, as I wanted to have something to strip down & re-condition without worrying about wrecking a family heirloom or my bank balance if it all goes horribly wrong.

There was no pendulum with the movement and as I have absolutely no idea what type of clock the movement came from (I can’t find any maker’s mark or name anywhere), I thought as my first exercise, I should work out the theoretical length of the pendulum I would need, if only to give me some idea of what case I could put it in when finished.

The train is as follows :-

Escape wheel 40 teeth/8 pinion -> 72 teeth/8 pinion -> 80 teeth/60 pinion -> centre wheel 30 teeth.

After a lot of internet searching, I THINK that gives 60 BPM and a pendulum length of 39.2 inches.

Can some kind soul either confirm my calculations or put me right if i’m wrong?

Thanks

Brian

In the interests of anyone who may be considering purchasing from this company, I think you should name names.

Brian

Not sure what you mean by the forum editing system - i’ve never noticed anything particularly different from any other text editor. The only thing that bugs me whilst editing on an iPad is that Return sends the cursor to the beginning of the text rather than to a new line.

As far as overwrite text is concerned, have you accidentally pressed the ‘insert’ key on your keyboard? This toggles between insert and overwrite.

Brian

Edited By Bodger Brian on 27/12/2018 15:49:08

If you don’t understand the advert, you’re not the target audience.

Brian

Edited By Bodger Brian on 23/12/2018 14:02:40

A bit more internet research reveals that it’s indeed a Comtometerg, with an abbreviated keyboard in order to cut down cost. To enter a number greater than 5, one merely pressed two numbers that added up to the required number. It’s claimed that some operators could work just as fast on such a machine, as their handspan could cover the whole keyboard, which wasn’t possible with full size machine.

Thanks for putting me on the right track.

EDIT : Looks like SOD & Michael G beat me to it!

Brian

Edited By Bodger Brian on 21/12/2018 21:46:23

Edited By Bodger Brian on 21/12/2018 21:53:59

But why only numbers up to 5?

Brian

This picture has been posted in a Facebook group that I’m a member of, along with a query as to what it is.

Are there any knowledgeable persons here who can shed some light?

Brian

That makes at least 3 bellringers on this forum. I'm in Oxfordshire (there is another ringing Brian Curtis in the New Forest area), although I'm somewhat lapsed at the moment) and I believe Julian Atkins is also a ringer. Where's your home tower?

Brian (Curtis)

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Something needs editing, methinks.

Brian