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I bought a large pack of Duracell AAA batteries from Costco a couple of years ago. They still had 3 years left on their expiry date when I opened the pack 6 months later. They too were all leaking a white puss. Got my money back for those.

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Mordant Solution or T-Wash is used to etch galvanised items to allow a paint to be applied. It is water based and very effective.

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I buy the multi pack coin cells that include 44's, 2025's & 2032's & several others from Poundland. They include many usefull batteries for watches etc in the packs. They last a reasonably good length of time & for the cost are very good value maybe not in the leauge of the top brands but plenty good enough for me. I have had one in my Mitutoyo vernier caliper for about 2 years and still going strong. Also have 2032's in my Bluetooth hands free and they last at least 6 months. All in all pretty good value.

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Menber The Knackler's Workshop has a Mk2 BCA jig borer. If he sees this post he may be able to help.

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Hi Greg. Welcome to the forum. Sorry I cannot help with your problem but I am sure a few knowledgable people will be along soon.

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Agreed. Had one at a mates house yesterday and it was tiny.

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Not at all Martin. I will say though that it may help others on the forum to formulate their responces in a more fitting or better way if they knew that that person had a problem. Maybe some are too proud to mention it but I hope they would feel able to do so on this forum without getting any negative comments.

I myself do not have great sight anymore and also have great difficulty distinguishing between spoken word & music on video's. The closed captions do not really help as by the time I read them the point has past. I very often comment on Y/T videos about this problem but to this day have not seen any lowering of background music sound levels. Most seem to have the attitude "xuxk you" this is my channel and I understand what is going on ok. So what do I do ? not watch any tv or web videos ?.

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I must admit that I no longer read any of the "what lathe/mill" posts as they are so repetive. It is easy to do a search on the forum first. THEN after reading the previous posts on the subject ask only if a certain point has not been covered. It amazes me that people with many posts on the forum still have to ask the basic "what mill/lathe/pillar drill etc ? instead of searching previous posts"

One of my pet bugs is people who are obviously making or designing commercial products asking questions that are easily found in a book or by an internet search. Many of these are beginner questions so makes me wonder about the competency of the person asking. Are they just looking for the easy way out or cleverly utilising the hive mind ?

When I was in industry along with many of the members of this forum it was a matter of get a book/brochure/manual & read what if anything was on the internet or phone a manufacturer for information. We still managed to get through with not too many problems.

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I agree with MG put in a complaint to Ebay and in all likely hood if you get an unsatisfactory result from the seller Ebay will step in and refund all of your money.

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I just bought a rechargable fly zapper for the caravan from Amazon. The sales blurb said it could be recharged with the supplied lead. When it arrived it had no battery in the compartment. No where in the blurb was it mentioned that the battery was not supplied. The battery was a non standard item costing more than the zapper. Item arrived at 10am this morning and by 11am it was at a Hermes pickup point on its way back to Amazon returns depot. I was amazed that when I hit the return item button there was no questions just an instant email with a QR code to take to the local returns agent.Hold the QR code under their scanner and it prints off a label. You then stick on label and just put parcel on the huge pile of returns from over the weekend. No need to even seal the parcel. They must get millions of returns every year. As far as I can tell all returns are palletted and sold on auction sites and never get back to Amazon.

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A little off topic but my 5kg tin of Devcon must be 15 years old or more. I opened it 2 days ago to repair an item and it was still like new. It has set perfectly.

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Described as a mini lathe. With 8"/16" swing (depending on where you live) 1.5" bore & 1.5hp I hardly think so. Got to be a scam.

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Not heard of Yama chucks. You can get a Boxford backplate from ARC Eurotrade. You only then need to machine the face to suit whichever chuck you go with. You can get a good chuck from ARC also. If you have any problems with it you will get good support from Ian & Ketan. Realistically a 5" chuck is about as big as you want to go with the AUD.

I have a 6" for my AUD but it can be a nightmare with jaw stick out so I have only used it once in several years.

IHTH

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I have many Tilley lamp lights & heaters collected over 35 years as an aside to my passion for collecting old domestic style parrafin lamps. I use bog standard Bartoline brand paraffin bought in most DIY shops or on garage forecourts. Use the preheater with meths to get them really hot before attempting to light them. Get the preheater positioned level with the globe for best results. Turn on the valve very slowly as the preheater flame is on its last legs and you should have no problems lighting them. I always filter the fuel even from a new can with a very fine brass mesh. I have Tiley lamps in my caravan for use outside that have been bumping about under the seats for many many years and the mantles are still in good order.

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Edited By Oldiron on 15/02/2022 18:24:01

It may be worth visiting one of your local "Mens Sheds" ( Ladies welcome also )

New Arelsford, Kingsworthy, Colden Common & Eastleigh all have one. Look them up on Google. Many of the mens sheds have members with lathes or even have one in the building. Look them up you will be welcome & get a cup of tea for your efforts.

IHTH

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My workshop and whole ground floor of my house are 6 repurposed garages. ( I bought some ex council flats & converted them to a house) All the floors were 10" of reinforced concrete on the original build. The floors had a slight slope to them to disuade water from entering under the garage doors. When the conversion was done doors were removed and bricked up to comply with modern insulation standards. The floors were also insulated in such a way as to bring them level over the whole area, a variance of 50mm front to back. So 100mm one end & 150mm the other. The 50mm ish fibre reinforced screed was then laid. This has been more than adequate and has not cracked or shrunk etc over the last 12 years. I have my Boxford lathe on its cabinet with flood coolant tank and many chucks & backplates in them. A 6 legged bench with a 110kg Ajax mill & a 55Kg minimill + all the tooling associated with them. Several very heavy cabinets on wheels + stock standing up + the workbench which is loaded down with "stuff" as is usual. So all in all more than a couple of tons which gets moved around occasionally. Not seen or felt that there was any movement in such a thin screed. I did not specify a deeper screed for the workshop as at the time it was planned to be a normal use room.

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I use Firefox with its Adblocker addon. Also Malwarebytes which warns of dodgey websites. Mind you I want to use the internet and not block everything that turns up. Cookies for the minute are something we have to tolerate to a certain extent.

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Me too. Well 1963 actually

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Yes that is so annoying Paul. It is in your face every day and most people still cannot remember what it is called or how it is spelled.

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Have a look at this video on Youtube. Oxtools I have used this method a lot. I get a bit dismayed when people post that you CANNOT disconect the half nuts during metric threading on an imperial lathe. They should really take time to research a subject before commenting. Things change over time & new discoveries are made that make things easier to do. As long as you have an imperial threading dial the method shown in the video works perfectly. If you have a screw on chuck only do this at slow speed as I do on my Boxford.

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If it's not been more than 10 days since you installed Windows 11, you can go to Settings>System>Recovery and choose “Go Back.” This will revert your computer to the Windows 10 version you had before installing Windows 11. It may still work after that for a while.

After that you need to do full reinstall of Win10 using your original media. If it was windows 7 use that and then upgrade to 10 as you did before.

If M/S prompted you to upgrade it must have detected that your pc was capable of running Win 11. I would just roll back if possible and stick with Win 10. I find Win 11 much faster than Win10 personally.

What programs are you trying to run ? If very old versions of whatever that is your problem so another reason to go back to Win 10.

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Edited By Oldiron on 04/02/2022 13:41:08