I would have thought a microwave transformer even when fed with a variac would have been a bit dangerous, if anything went wrong you could 2000V on the loose.

I've seen a homemade TV tube de-gaussing coil which was a few turns about the size of the tube and fed from the mains in series with an electric fire, the coil is then moved around in front of the tube and gradually moved away. No idea if that would work on a steel table though.

When I put Autocad 2D and 3D Inventor on my PC many years ago details of the PC's hardware were taken by Autodesk and they then issued me with a 16 digit code based on my hardware serial numbers, I believe that even replacing one piece of the hardware, say the graphics board, would stop the software from running.

One thing I found different between tungsten halogen and LEDs, both the tungsten halogen and the LEDs which replaced them in our kitchen are dimmable, now when the tungsten halogen were dimmed besides the quantity of light being reduced the colour temperature changes and at their dimmest they are dull orange, the LEDs which are cool white stay the same same colour and at their dimmest it's a bit like moonlight, I'm very pleased with them.

John

Many years ago I attended a Tribolgy Course run by the Atomic Energy Authority and they said then that the main cause of bearing failure was over greasing, however that was 50 years ago and things do change.

John

The MR16 tungsten halogens in our kitchen ceiling lights, 8 of them at 12v 36w have been running for about 12 years without any failures, obviously they are not on all the time, perhaps only and hour / day in the summer and 4 hours / day in the winter and being 12v running off transformers with soft start must have helped, however despite not having any problems with them I've just changed over to LED's.

John

It's back this morning.

John

According it's Google it's a bobbin winder, sorry about the long link, I don't know how to shorten it.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=mattson+mora+bobbin+winder&biw=1343&bih=1056&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjV_bWivOPKAhVF2xoKHUCnC60Q_AUICCgD

John

Thanks John.

John

Depending on the type of weld and how easy it is to work on, when I had the stainless steel fittings tig welded for my boat ( a full size one nor a model ) all butt welds were finished off with flap wheels in an electric drill, changing direction with each change of grit size and finally with a calico wheel and buffing soap. On most of the welds it's impossible to see them.

John

I've been using Linux Mint on my main PC for a couple of years now, it's as fast as the day I bought it with no crashes and blue screens, however I still have to use a Windows laptop to run programs like the Garmin installer for updating my Satnav,.

John

My first post but I have been looking in most days for a while now.

I don't know if they ever made a complete metric lathe but until my retirement I worked at a large R & D Lab' and they had the bottom half of an ML7, the bed, carriage & lead screw and cross slide, this was purchased directly from Myford probably about 25 years ago, this was used as an optical bench and when it was no longer required I bought it from them and on closer inspection found that it has a 3mm pitch lead screw and the lead screw handwheel is calibrated 0 - 3 with a total of 15 divisions each sub divided into 10. Our own machine shop could have easily fitted a metric lead screw and split nut but from the quality of the handwheel engraving and the fact that a keyway has been cut for non existent change wheels convinces me that it was a Myford special.

The bed has no serial number, I have since added all the parts required to make it a complete lathe.

John