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On that earlier link I saw Molybdenum alloys, which are apparently used and not as expensive as tungsten.

I think it goes without saying unless you know you've got the gear to handle it, you should always go for a relatively well machining material.

Michael W

They've been waiting for this bubble to burst for a while.

Emergency laundry services.

Cheers, I wondered if there were some induction motors that couldn't.

Are there some motors which aren't reversible?

Michael W

I think very deep dents are inevitably not going to look the same again no matter how much you push out. The best you could do at that point would be to try and hide it and smooth it into the rest of it.

Michael W

It is unfortunately, I don't have one on my 8" import. I reckon I wouldn't want to take it very fast anyway. The off balance nature of what you normally put it one makes it quite risky.

Michael W

Also some of those torx screws aren't great quality and start to cam out without much use, especially the smaller ones.

I think their elusiveness comes down to the fact that many of the jobs it does can be done with just a hack saw and files, okay, a lot of effort involved with that and you might not be brilliant at it, but it will do the same job.

Milling and turning would be very difficult to replicate the results with just hand tools. Milling can perform most of the roles a shaper can and mill pockets and enclosed spaces. Turning would just be downright awkward to do without a lathe of sorts.

Michael W

These adept machines do appear to be pretty good, as really they may not take up that much room at all, and very affordable from what I've seen on ebay, you can pick one up for just under a couple of hundred notes.

I would say a series on this, whilst not really allowing a non-owner to practically do much with the information, I still believe it would be interesting, as presumably we're all interested in cutting/working machinery even if we don't use or own it.

Michael W

Don't these things need to be super heavy to work well? Most of the ones I've seen look pretty big to be a bench top machine. I'd be impressed and perhaps even tempted if someone could demonstrate one no bigger than one of the smaller Sieg mills.

Michael W

Does anyone know where I might find/acquire some drawings of the 1945-1951 Fairburn locomotive?

Michael W

They could start with all those Oxford and Cambridge grads..

I was told the same thing.

Michael W

Theres an interesting graph I found somewhere that perfectly demonstrated this trend, by showing how many emissions are being essentially "handed down" to developing nations, who do the industrial grunt work, and all the nastiness that comes with it and guess who topped the list?

yes, all the formerly great industrial nations. France, Germany, UK/US. We don't have to bear the guilt, because we can make all those misfortunates take it on for our money?

Michael W

That's interesting, I've heard the trick of just using baking soda to mix with cyano and it goes rock hard almost instantly, and you can keep doing it to build up layers.

Michael W

I don't need their chuck for an ER collet?

What are the rules for selling in the U.K? because I have noticed a lot of HK sellers, yet it would seem they don't necessarily have to have a U.K base from which to post.

I'm not complaining as such because I have used some of them and been quite happy about it but it does seem kinda odd that they don't state they are overseas and they're accepting money in pounds, which would be quite useless to them over there.

Michael W

It makes for a good handle too.

You can just drill a hole smaller than the square and needle file it until it goes in, that would probably be good enough.

I do remember some tap wrenches being like this with numerous different sized square holes along a piece of thin flat bar.

All this talk of square holes is making me tempted to go for these square hole ER32 collets, cutwel are selling for tapping in the lathe 

Michael W

Edited By Michael-w on 03/08/2017 20:39:04

I suppose the logic would be a bigger gun and battleship would give you longer range with which to hit something.(Heavy weight isn't necessarily as much of a problem at sea, what matters is how well balanced the weight is and buoyancy. It just means you need a longer distance to come to a halt, like those big oil tankers do.)

A heavier gauge weapon in this type of warfare was the way to outclass an opponent because you could hit them before they could hit you.

Submarines and aircraft advancement has kind of taken out the one upmanship of nations building what are essentially floating fortresses, they were considered untouchable. They still have them, of course, (Nimitz, Kirov etc) but they aren't the force they once represented.

The HMS Hood for e.g before the germans sent it to the bottom, once was the pride of the royal navy, was probably their biggest ship, and therefore the only match they had for the bizmark. It didn't go their way but you can see how they gauged up what was suitable vessel to take on such a beast in direct combat. That being said, the bizmark was also very lucky to have landed a plunging shot on the wooden deck. This led to the loss of around 1400 men. Very sad. 

Michael W

Edited By Michael-w on 02/08/2017 18:12:55