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Edited By Michael-w on 16/07/2017 12:46:15

It's a lot harder to wield as a weapon though.

Michael W

Before I went upmarket with molislip, I used Vaseline as it was readily available, same tub still in the workshop, and like the guys say, it does the job, it probably would dry out before something like molislip would for long-term lubrication. Obviously I'd stay clear of molislip if it's going to come into contact with potable water. 

I believe the old timers favourite was tallow, but where you'd get  that these days?

Michael W

Edited By Michael-w on 15/07/2017 13:39:13

I've never used sulphuric for pickling before but I have used citric acid to do the same, it seems to work fine if you don't mind a little bit of elbow grease to shift the stubborn stuff. Using Warm water seems to help a bit

I agree that with the internet they can trace who bought what and this makes it very easy to get a prosecution.

People really aren't aware of how much they are spied on and they can piece together a trail of everything you've done if they put their mind to it. They don't advertise this fact of course because otherwise people would seek to avoid it.

According to my councils' own website, you can in law legally request all the information they have collected about you, but it takes 40 days, you've got to pay £90 and anything they'd rather you didn't see they'll keep from you anyway.

But as the old saying goes, if you haven't done anything wrong then you haven't got much to worry about. 

Michael W

Edited By Michael-w on 14/07/2017 22:14:56

Edited By Michael-w on 14/07/2017 19:24:19

If and likely this stuff is cold rolled, it is possible to anneal and stress relieve 304 by heating to around 1000C and quenching it very quickly, as is common to do with austenitic steels.

Michael W

It's always the legitimate user who gets stung. But then if nobody abused the law there would be no need for this. The inevitable result of the abuse is simply more and more rights being taken away from people, it's as simple as that.

Michael W

Sounds like a very sensible policy, but with the advent of purchasing things so easily online I just wonder how well it could be enforced, It's at least another hurdle I suppose.

To be honest, the types of people who would consider this wouldn't put themselves beyond using the dark net, however, that place is also crawling with law enforcement and surveillance and traps designed to waylay the criminals, a lot of potential terrorists have been caught this way.

And even spend too long on there and you'll probably get the famous knock at the door even with an IP mask.

Michael W

+1 Ohh yess.

There is really no fundamental difference in the construction of the slides between a lathe and a mill in my experience. The biggest differences appear when you get to the headstock in terms of collets and drawbars rather than a chuck, and the arrangement and movement of the slides is obviously different.

If anything, a modern lathe relying on a polyform bedway slide is more rigidly constructed than a simple vee groove simply to counteract the twisting motion Imposed on the saddle during rack feed. Probably one of the main reasons why my Clarke never had a rack and pinion feed (simply directly bolted to the feednut and handle.

(You may have seen the post on my failed experiment with a rack/pinion feed, due to the reason outlined above, though I think I may have found a clever workaround, it'll work this time I think!) 

As far as I know my mill uses vee groove slides, one thing I would agree is that with a mill it's a lot heftier than the cross slide though, as the travel tends to be far shorter on a lathe. In theory with a sensible set up there is no reason why he couldn't do milling on a lathe, I have milled a cast iron piece on the lathe before and found I could take quite a cut with it.  Just make sure those bolts are done up tight on the vise, Nigel! 

Michael W

Edited By Michael-w on 09/07/2017 21:04:15

It's probably the same reason why many would find it easier to drill a smaller hole before drilling a much larger hole. There's simply less work for it to do.

Michael W

I think I bought the same set not so long ago, very strange looking drills, I don't think I've seen them before, like a single point drill.

I think it was worth it just for the stop collars and countersinks, I think I only paid about £6 for it.

Michael W

A time and place for everything, even the ones that the boring old farts are interested in. They deserve to have a voice too.

The beginners get plenty of scope in M.E.W. I believe reading a while ago that in the M.E magazine, possibly written by stan bray, saying how that the M.E magazine always deferred from using construction/project articles in favour of write ups of complete models and their usage, rather than making them, since why the need for M.E.W arose in the first place.

Sometimes I like a bit of what's outside the known, or expected subject area, for example, this months (M.E.W - I don't have an M.E subscription, only occasional purchase of that) issue on making a flute, I haven't got the faintest clue or interest in making flutes, yet I still enjoyed learning about it.

Michael W

Edited By Michael-w on 06/07/2017 11:48:03

Edited By Michael-w on 06/07/2017 11:50:17

this is fairly standard practice for flat bar too, if you mill one side at full depth, you will often find you have trouble holding the size due to the inherent stresses.

But if you take both sides, half as deep, you'll get a more accurate cut. They will also be more parallel to each other.

Michael W

When I buy metric plastic stock it often comes a good deal oversize to the nominal, for e.g I buy 22mm Nylon 6.6, and it actually measures 22.7mm, However, the roundness of the extruded bar is often left to be desired, so I presume this is the reason why it seems a fair deal over 22.

Michael W

I hate to disagree with you but I think it's not the sort of habit we should be recommending!

Michael W

Thanks, i'll let you know how I get on with it.

The Prodesktop was very simple and really had, when I think back on it, a very good way of cataloguing all the different things you can do with it. It isn't that freecad doesn't provide these things, it's just they make it more annoying to find.

Michael W

I'm about 90% of the way of setting up my printer,(Kosselmini clone, running on Arduino mega 2560 and Marlin program) all the firmware has finally been installed, I've nearly mastered the controls for pronterface and set up the Arduino to run the software.

At the moment i'm trying to learn using freecad,​ but it's a little clunky to find things, compared to the ancient prodesktop CAD I learnt at school where you established workplanes and so on to build up a component. Is there any other good free CAD software someone can recommend?

Michael W

This will probably end up sounding conceited to some, but this "problem" of a lack of practical, able, willing politicians has far more to it than meets the eye.

I think the main difference is that governments of previous generations didn't get paid to be an MP, you had to do something else in order to get money.

Whilst this meant that inevitably all MPs were rich, who just wanted the job as a hobby, you could construe this as a good thing because they wanted to be there for reasons other than financial gain, yes, a corrupt steel magnate might look to vote in favour of policies that support his industry, but he actually has to win the argument first.

It means you can't get elected just simply because you want a comfortable salary.

Now you can just sit on your laurels and do nothing if it so inclined you. You don't even have to turn up if you want, and that's why weve got more politicians than ever, who can't seem to get an awful lot done.

Michael W

Edited By Michael-w on 04/07/2017 16:29:37

There was a news story not so long ago about a British kid finding a logical flaw in nasa's althogorims for finding habitable planets that lead to much bigger predictions than was truly possible, no expertise and the whole agency missed it.