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AH yes this is the guy (sv seeker) who staged a massive gas explosion on his boat and made out that he been badly injured. He lost a lot of subscribers after that.

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Sievert probably still stock spares for that gun Gary.

Are we banned from saying AMAZON & EBAY. ???????

As far as I recall we are allowed to mention these two huge companies in this forum. Why do ppl faff around when it is easier to type the actual name than think of a pseudonim ?

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I find it very amusing to see how many facing cuts some "machinists" make when starting a job in the lathe. Why wear out your tools doing something that is totally unnesassary ? Unless the end of the bar is just faced and not drilled/bored etc I take a little as possible from the face. I only face the end of the work piece before drilling if it is really rough and then only the centre of the bar. I spot drill/drill/bore etc first then just face/chamfer off the required flat surfaces. Saves time energy & tooling.

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Edited By Oldiron on 05/11/2021 12:33:41

The music over any speech is really annoying. I find it difficult to differentiate between the two when the music is loud. I never watch tv unless it is a wildlife documentary or F1 these days. What I really find annoying are the Youtube creators who think we need music over everthing especially engineering/modelmaking videos. STOP IT. I/we dont want hear your taste in music.

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According to a friend who lives in Ca even some foodstuffs have that cancer warning on them. Looks like the Ca lawmakers are covering their axses.

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Mint does indeed charge for business & enterprise use as do several other distros including Redhat etc. The Mint 20+ release installs at a screen resolution of 2560×1600 which is a problem on some smaller /older monitors.. The free versions are just basic with no support if your system goes tixs up and as said can be withdrawn at any time. . I use Mint "trying to evaluate it to replace Windows" on one of my PC's and feel that it is still lacking in ease of use and Apps compared to Windows. Also some of my input devices will not run out of the box as they do in Windows so could be a problem. I will persevere with it for a while and maybe try another distro.

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I am running win11 in a virtual machine as my £2500 8 year old pc is not capable of running 11 (Baahumbug bloxxy ridiculous) I have all the requirments except my I7 5th gen' processor is supposedly not good enough. Only installed today so not sure how much diferent it is to 10. I am going through the many videos on Youtube to find out its features. But is does run quicker than 10 also Skype is missing and has been replaced by MS Teams.

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I would be really miffed is someone was stopped from linking to one of my British made items on Ebay if they thought it would help out others on the forum. I do not think there is an overall ban on links to Ebay items (or is there) Only links to far eastern items, items that encroach on sponsers territory or items that may not conform to EU/UK standards are banned as far as I know. But I stand to be corrected if I am wrong.

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I use FF and get the occasional warning. I download the PDF's as they are all scanned by Malwarebytes and Windows Security Essentials. All so far have been clean. I realise that there could be a threat with http so only download from known sources when I can. FF gives warnings on quite a few sites these days especially if you are looking for drivers or free software. I downloaded a BIOS update last week and got a warning that the site was potentialy dangerous. The site was Asus,com which is one of the leading OEM pc parts manufacturers. It pays to be mindfull at all times.

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M10 x 1 is also the thread on the height adjustment for many QCTP tool holders. When I made several new ones I ordered some 10 x 1 electrical nipple 65mm long. It was a godsend not having to thread them all and cut to length from threaded bar. Another aside is that it is virtually the same size as 1/8" BSP so very handy if you do not have the BSP tap.

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Hi Ches. Welcome to the forum. Plenty of answers to any questions you may have in the forum. You can search specifics and get at least some background info into buying machines, trouble shooting or making models and other parts.

Where do you hail from & what areas are you interested in ? regards

Edited By Oldiron on 14/10/2021 16:44:32

You can buy deer antler from various places. Not sure if it will be perfect for the job but would be different.

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Most people would call that a ceiling beam. He says, hiding behind the couch. LoL

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Password for that email should be changed & made stronger.

I got this last night :-

Probably an access attemt via one of the many bots that are used across the web to find passwords. Updated my password post haste. No need to change the email address according to my provider.

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I would love to have them Mick but they should probably go to someone a bit younger than me. The other option is to donate them to a local ME club or similar.

Maybe my bump of the thread will garner more interest.

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Hi Ivan. Sorry cannot help you in your quest. It is not a good idea to leave your number on a public page. You should really remove it and ask to be contacted via your PM's.

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Hi Fred. It is always best to start a new thread if you have a specific question to seperate it from the existing thread you have latched onto. Hopefully some one will come along to help you.

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Edited By Oldiron on 13/10/2021 17:58:44

Looks to be in quite good nick Alan. They can be a real pain to strip, clean & reassemble. Mostly pressed steel parts assembled by hand.

In my album there are photos of part of my collection which we drag around the country showing them off at steam fairs etc.

SOD. An Enigma machine is basically a typewriter that swops letters in a seemingly random way ( depends on which set of wheels are fitted) and not a mechanical calculator. We are forever putting people right when they pass by and shout "Ooh look typewriters" even though we have a sign saying "Mechanical Calculators"

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I had a large batch of A4 photographic paper disappear into their system between here & Brighton. I had to refund the buyer. After many many emails etc etc over a couple of months I just gave up. Never got the paper (5Kg) back or the supposed compensation that was due.

@Samsaranda. Amazon use them in my area also. Wife had (supposedly) 2 small parcels delivered through the door last week. Only 1 was on the mat. After a call to Amazon the other one arrived 5 days later. ??

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Who ever drilled the holes had a pretty good set of number stamps. "hides under table.

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