Member postings for Jon Lawes

Thank you

We have gone decimal now and the prices have gone up a fair bit.

Sounds interesting, who is GHT? (Although I suspect I know the answer...)

Very sorry to hear this. Best wishes.

Interesting. I wonder at what speed those dental drill ball bearings give up!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:M109BREECH.JPG

Looks like the technique is still the same now!

Although I think a lot of people are very pleased with their Reilangs, there are a few dissenting voices. I see one chap on this forum ended up making a new seal arrangement.

Excellent work, thanks for the information.

I buy old Wesco cans cheap on ebay, clean them out then solder on attachments suitable for the requirement. I have a row of them for each job in hand, total cost about £25. They are not pretty but its very handy. Only one of the lot needed any tweaking to make it work, every other one worked as soon as fresh clean oil was pumped through a couples of squirts.

The one with a cone on for the myford nipples is a godsend.

Aircraft too, but that was less to do with efficiency and more to do with safety.

Is it a sense of humour bypass? I've never found humiliating someone very witty. Obviously I don't have a sense of humour.

Pratical jokes on apprentices seemed to be more commonplace when our workplace was a government agency, as soon as we were made a company and profit became important wasting time was taken a bit more seriously by managers.

https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=13&lat=51.18896&lon=-0.61291&layers=1&right=BingHyb

I've spent many a happy hour trawling through the National Library of Scotlands maps on this page. Change the drop down menus at the top to change the reference maps (don't forget to change the country, there are many options that unexpectedly work).

Edited By Jon Lawes on 12/05/2022 21:04:28

We used Incralac for brass letters on the stern of a boat; they have retained their polish nicely with no sign of cracking or crazing yet, and its been on there longer than I can remember.

I put it through Google Image Search and it just called it a paper Polyhedron.

https://deceptivelyeducational.blogspot.com/2014/02/paper-polyhedron.html

Bit of a sweeping generalisation there. Maybe if yours is a bit of a cowboy outfit they just fill it without checking the pressure.

As I sit in my UK Rabbit Hutch my jealousy doesn't extend to just the plasma cutter.

Our club runs sessions for novices which is very useful; I think if the club has the right mindset (and realises that without young members there will be no club) it's a very supportive environment

I should imagine the water will be gone within a fraction of a second of hitting the valve. As long as you have a slight inclination to the whistle itself to facilitate draining I think it would be ok?

Mine clears fairly rapidly with a few horizontal sections, albeit no u-bends.

Hi Steven,

Can I suggest you get yourself along to your local model engineering society? Most are able to assist with tools (for example I don't often use metal rolls, but our club has some members are free to use). Most model engineering societies are delighted to see new members, especially those lucky enough to be starting young!

My Model engineering society is Westbury, Wiltshire (the WWSME), if you can get your parents to bring you along to ours or one like it you would certainly be made most welcome, given assistance, and find a good source of cheap second hand tools.

Edited By Jon Lawes on 06/05/2022 09:02:18

Earn it's keep doing what?