Member postings for Mike Lightfoot

Not done it yet, thanks i didnt know that one

I also use varifocal safety specs from spec savers £250 ish but wouldnt be without them

My only other observations are even with a cabinet like that swmbo would not have the lathe in the lounge they were only allowed in for the picture, knowing Dad he just bought them because they looked nice he had two dividing heads so wouldnt really need them for indexing

thanks for looking

Mike

First of all thank you all for your time, some more info, the larger inside bore is 1.04” the smaller is .85” .5 width

two pictures here of 64 and 24 tooth wheels and dia the first 64/4.123 is 15.5 second 24/1.615 is 14.8 since to calculate dp i believe they should be measured at the pcd and not the od would that be right for 15 DP?

Emgee, thanks will do that first thing tomorrow

• Good evening just found these i believe they are change wheels but dont match any machine dad had so does anyone have any idea
• cheers

Stephen its just come to me the company i delt with were in the stages of merging with Lloyd Jones so give them a call

Stephen, I too have some old sumitomo tools and quite right they are odd sizes i did however find a source i seem to remember liverpool or wigan way ill see if i can did the info out over the weekend.

Ok enough I for one as a complete novice in this field welcome the opportunity to try a package with some tuition at only the cost of a magazine subsription which i pay anyway

Thats fine but why replace it, when you have the boiler test the inspector should mark Max working pressure on it you could scale it down from that ?

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow

Clogs, Hi we have a large log burner heating a largish hot water tank as a back up i have an electric heater to heat the water it powers a wet underfloor downstairs radiators upstairs and provides domestic hot water. It works like this the big tank is called a heat store, it is sort of oppositte a normal central heating so the tank contains the hot water directly connected to the heaters and underfloor and the electric heater the domestic hot water is mains fed through a high efficiency heat exchanger in the tank there are 3 pumps one in line with the electric heater to push that water through and into the tank, one to circulate hot water to the underfloor ( which also has its own pump) and one to circulate through the radiators, i guess i am using the tank as a manifold although the underfloor zones are on a seperate one, all works well.

All this reminds me of an old joke doing the rounds when i was in the RAF " air force officer and army officer taking a pee air force officer goes to walk straight out, army officer says we were taught to wash our hands after taking a pee at Sandhurst, air force officer replies at Cranwell we were taught not to piss on our hands in the first place"

Siemens are already 3D printing parts for gas turbine engines only at the testing stage i think

Machinery's Handbook is up to 30 edition and still currently available ( just treated myself) my old man bought me a 21 edition ages ago, its just a gold mine

Edited By Mike Lightfoot on 28/02/2017 15:56:14

Whilst i have not tried it i understand if you print it out on a laser printer you can iron it onto the brass and the print will transfer and is etch resist.

Michael had a quick look but my lap top is not that well protected so a little reluctant will look to update and try again thanks

Cheers Derek will let you know hopefully someone out there .....

hi does anyone have a spare ( or one that could be copied ) copy of Alan marshals book "building the burrel showmans traction engine thetford town" isbn0954475836 and 9780954475833 two volumes, I have just inherited Dads part finished beast, i believe alan also did it on disc. I have tried all the usual and e mailed the author from his web site all to no avail, thanks in advance. Mike

Nigel thanks will reinforce that info though our tester should be aware Cheers Mike