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Took these dims out of a Google search. IHIH regards

Edited By Oldiron on 12/02/2021 18:00:04

You can get carbide burrs for the Dremel. A much better way to do it. An angle grinder is a quicker and dirtier way to go.

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A screw-on chuck, as on the Myford or Boxford type lathes, WILL ALWAYS unscrew unless specially secured.

That statement is absolute rubbish. OK it is possible but I have done 100's of metric studs up to 20mm on my imperial Boxford using reverse and never once has the chuck tried to come off. My chucks are not stuck on and can be removed without much effort. I mostly use 4" chucks so not a lot of weight involved. The only way it is likely to try to come off if someone is stupid enough to throw the lathe into reverse when running at high speed. The VFD ramps down the speed to a stop and then ramps it back up. As far as I see it why would Boxford have sold lathes with reversing motors /switches if they thought that every time you ran in reverse it wouild throw the chuck off. My brother has an ME10 bought new with threaded spindle & reversing motor. If used properly and with respect I do not seeing running in reverse as a problem.

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I 100% agree Andrew. The text colour & background colour on this forum is ideal for me.

I have great difficulty reading virtually any mixture of colored text on coloured back ground. Am waiting for eye operation but God alone knows when that will be. I doubt there will be a huge improvement after the op.

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What young family can afford to go to Duxford museum or The Portsmouth Dockyard these days if they were open ? Duxford child ticket £11-25 Porstmouth Dockyard cheapest child ticket £19. The dockyard tickets are open for a year but thats only good if you live locally and dont have to travel far. I do not think the wife & I have ever revisited a place in the same year. It wouuld be interesting to see the figures for revisits within a year. I think they would be very low.

The price for admission is IMHO way to high. Then the food outlets rip you off even more.

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I agree that all contributers should have acknowledgement of their work in a very prominent place.

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Almost any small drill press will do the job. You could look at some of our suppliers or there are a couple of nice lookers on homeworshop.org.uk

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Edited By Oldiron on 12/02/2021 10:56:08

Well I can barely read that site. BUT i can win points for contributions. No thanks

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Edited By Oldiron on 12/02/2021 10:42:20

Hi PatJ. Changing to a new system is not the problem ( as the system is invisible). Changing to a new format (what we actually see) is what people most object to most. Most members here are to put it politley getting on a bit(me included) and change does not come easy. If the forum could have some new features from an update but leave the colours & layout as it is I would agree. BUT any one updating a forum ALWAYS have to put their own touch to it and ruin it for most other people. I have seen it done several times. Just look at the example Ketan gave earlier in this topic, not good at all. Why do we need to know who is the top poster and has 10K bonus points or has the biggest album or who is reading what now ? I doubt very much if many people want to use a forum such as this on a mobile phone as most of us could not see it easily. Using lots of colours can also be a bad thing when you start getting coloured text on coloured back grounds makes it a nightmare some of us with sight problems.

I find there is no problem with the phorto upload system here at all. As I said in my earlier post I can upload a photo in a few seconds. I do not understand why people have such a problem with it.

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Hi Andrew. Welcome to the forum. Enjoy you new toy. Plenty of info up for grabs here if you search or ask for it.

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Edited By Oldiron on 11/02/2021 17:48:24

Something you may not know as a beginner and I could not see mentioned in any of the great above posts is :- the SCLCL tool is left handed as it cuts left to right and the SCLCR is right handed and cuts right to left. People do get mistaken in this regard as a RH tool points left and a LH tool points right.

Good luck with your new toy. Any questions just ask and an answer will just pop right up (usually)

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personally I do not see why it is a faff at all.

Click green"album" link at top of page/edit album info/add photos/browse to photo, select & upload. It takes less than 30 seconds to do. I just uploaded the picture of my snow drops in 20 seconds to my album.

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I still think this forum layout is much beter than Ketans link

Everything I need is on the opening page. No need to have to search around and change pages for ads, latest posts etc. If it aint broke dont fix it. Also on that forum everyone can see what you are reading or searching for. Not that I have anything to hide but that seems very invasive to me.

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Just an addition to Howards post if I may. After you drive the plug into the register do not remove from the chuck or mandrel until you have finished all the operations.

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Edited By Oldiron on 10/02/2021 19:07:06

Lots of video's on Youtube to see the methods needed to realighn a thread.

Look at this one

IHTH

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I have used the ball brushes many times on hydraulic cylinder repairs. They work well but as with any other lapping method keep it moving over the whole surface and use plenty of oil.

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Well I do not know what happened there. ???? It was supposed to link to a forum post. Link

Most strange. But that has been life for the last 12 months

  Just watched the YT video. gets interesting at 2-15

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Edited By Oldiron on 08/02/2021 19:05:26

Which would probably be F--- O--

Corby is a much more refined place now.

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Maybe some info here >>ML4

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