Member postings for matt merchant

Ah well, the joys of working on old cars.

Brian

at least old cars don't need a laptop to service them

Matt

and ping said the parting tool blade!

first swarf made on the new Sieg, not really making much just testing how much I remember which apparently doesn't include not feeding the parting tool blade too fast.

I have made a start on an idea for a Georgian dolls house light which may or may not turn out like the voices in my head say it will

Matt

well between work and keeping things in harmony on the domestic front its only today ive found the time to clean off the packing grease and lube her up.

so far only checked for sloppiness and done the initial spin up, and happy to report all good right out of the box.

tomorrow will see some swarf being made, just a few test cuts more for my benefit than the lathes to see if I remember how

Matt

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seriously impressive skills there William

matt

think this should be here rather than the do today thread.

whoop took delivery today of a lovely little sieg sc2 lathe from Ketan and the team at arceurotrade really good service from them, 3 days from ordering to the well packed sturdy wooden crate being passed to my mucky dabs.

ive not done much apart from unpack at the moment, tomorrows job after work will be cleaning off the packing grease and lubing her up ​ then onto mounting upon the made from salvaged wood bench

Matt

nice little donation for the mancave from our metrology department at work, failed calibration tests for them but still accurate enough for home workshop use, diverted from the scrap bin

Matt

Welcome to the Dark Side

My daughter has a t-shirt "Welcome to the Dark Side - We Have Cookies". I fancy one with "We Have Swarf".

Neil

being a star wars geek with the partwork millennium falcon on the go id buy that t-shirt, although cookies are acceptable too

Matt

the deed is done just ordered a shiny new SC2 lathe with a few of the essentials to get started, now just have to wait impatiently while starting to dig in the dark recesses of my patchy memory for the machining skills of 20 plus years ago

Matt

sounds interesting, can think of a few unconventional uses depending on the cure time

did the same thing myself a few years back, had to do the rest no1 to match and was considering some red braces with DMs to complete the look

As my workspace has to accommodate the tumble drier as well as my bits and peices, I've 'borrowed' a few container dry bags from work, which are roughly 1.5/2kg porous bags of clay pellets one of our suppliers use in containers spending 6 weeks on the ocean waves to keep the shiny bits from going ginger, not sure if they are available commercially but an option to keep damp at bay without the electrickery meter going high mach numbers

Matt

Thinking about it cars are far more dangerous than model engineering. Even if my driving happens to be up to standard, there are all those other idiots on the road!

Dave

usually in a certain automobile manufactured in Germany .

15 years of contracting work up and down the land

probably me to be fair, although to be fair I've got better as age has crept upon me.

my personal highlights are from way back when I was an apprentice, tig welding sitting at a bench finished off a bead and laid it across one leg and electrode went right into to other knee with a smell of roast pork.

cutting up some old aluminium steps with a 9" grinder looking directly over the blade, the blade bit the grinder did kick and the handle caught me right in the mush, luckily no teeth rattled loose or broken just lots of claret and Mick Jagger jokes for a coupla weeks. it did teach me to look from the side when using a grinder though.

one I had to deal with at work last year wasn't power tools but hammer related, the lad was knocking roll pins in to castings to hold slipper pads in place and rather than start them slowly with a tap or two was giving the full monty from the off one pinged up and hit him in the eye (no safety specs) extremely lucky to be just bruising and not doing a dalek impression.

Matt

In the man cave today making soft fluffy swarf, started cutting up timber for a bench to park a mini lathe on.

had to do the hand saw routine as my trusty 14.4v dewalt circular saw has finally given up the ghost after 15 years of service/abuse (10 of them on building sites).

so a trip to screwfix tomorrow for a cheap corded replacement and a short memorial service will be held for the dewalt.

on the music was in brum a couple of weeks ago watching The Who still ripping it up, Daltrys still got one hell of a voice

Matt

has that thing been buried in a field?

thanks Chris

hi Neil I've been looking at the SC2 being purveyed by arceurotrade which does have the brushless motor, it seems to have pretty much the features I'm looking for and enough accessories available to make it a flexible little tool compared to some of the others ive seen while poking around the machine tool sections of the interweb

ive not had the torque issues listed here but I did have a 6 month old 3000 just stop dead while merrily butchering some 9mm MDF, no burning smell no slow down just stopped dead, a fuse change thought I! nope still dead, so another one purchased as no sign of where I thought id left the receipt (thanks to tidying wifey ). not used it yet but my issue which has been reported by others on t'interweb along with yours does suggest quality of component issues

afternoon all, long time scale modeller of the plastic kit variety kind of a newbie to this side of the fence but have done the mill, drill and turning dance before as an apprentice engineer who fell by the wayside some 25ish years ago (gotta love the old YT scheme)

anyway the old grey matter started to give off a strange burning smell, new ideas forming as to not buying aftermarket barrels and bits that are sometimes a bit on the extraspensive side. and may well try a few projects outside my usual comfort zone after the bench backlog has cleared a bit. currently eyeing up a SEIG SC2 lathe as I have limited space (and if I'm careful have access to grown up size machine tools at work)

as to sliding the expense past the missus well some nice bespoke items for her 6' x 4' dolls house that's currently the work in progress on my bench will I'm sure ease the nagging.

Matt