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Reading Dave's post there is a lot I can agree with - the main one not is the 'over 70' bit. As I am not yet half way through my 60's I still find it strange that in Primary school we never used metric units - in fact the maths books still had farthings in the sums which were were told to just ignore. I used to be able to do multiplication and division of pounds shillings and pence. I doubt i could now (no need anyway) - those 10 shilling columns were the issue as far as can remember!

Having worked with Imperial units in junior school it seems, on reflection, as strange not to start using the first incarnation of Metric using centimetres, grammes and seconds in secondary school from day one, but to miss this step out completely and go straight in to the SI system with its kilograms, metres and seconds.

Must have just caught it at the wrong time!

I haven't seen that picture for nearly 50 years! My materials lecturer at University, Dr Moon used it to show, not the cause of the crack, but rather how cracks can propagate further in a welded structure than a riveted one built out of individual plates.

I know that going too fast over speed bump is likely to over stress your car, and that they are designed to slow down traffic to make any accident less harmful to the victim (don't take me to task over that - I have worded it very carefully !!!!)

But surely if an obstacle is placed on a road with a 30mph speed limit and one were to drive over it, for example in the dead of night on Christmas Day when there is no traffic about, at 30mph - it ought not damage ones car? - or is that a totally naïve and innocent way of looking at it?

I don't suppose one could sue the local council for damages.

Edited By Nick Clarke 3 on 23/09/2019 21:33:27

Totally agree. Easily the most likely

Your wife's laptop could easily have a more sensitive receiver, so comparisons are not always straightforward. I have about 8 laptops in use (some more so than others) in the house, not to mention Raspberry Pis and Amazon Echos, and I teach with up to 15 laptops in the same room. The individual differences, even between supposedly identical machines can be far greater than you might think.  

Channel 1 is the default 2.4GHz WiFi channel and if a lot of neighbours have changed ISP or got new routers there could be a lot of people using the default channel. You need to look at what channels are being used near you and pick one that is not the same as everyone elses.

I use a tool a called inSSider to check for channel clashes which is very good and easy to use, however while it used to be free they charge for it now. WiFi Analyzer Tool from the Microsoft store is very cheap and sometimes on offer FOC. Both give a visual display of channels in use nearby so you can choose the least used.

Something else to check, but less likely to be the problem - When you switched the WiFi card did you reconnect the wires from the internal aerial and the same way round?

Edited By Nick Clarke 3 on 23/09/2019 18:34:27

Does the loco seize up and stop or does it just 'run out of puff' with everything still free to turn?

I suppose repairability for a home car mechanic is as much a matter of philosophy - if your engine i not running well and you plug in a fault reader (£25 or so) and it tells you to replace a coil pack (£90) as happened to me recently is far more expensive than replacing a traditional coil but considerably easier than diagnosing a misfire in an older car.

Does it need to be steel reinforced or to have the appearance of steel reinforced?

In an article about making vacuum brake pipes W.A (Bill) Carter described how to wrap wire around a pipe and run an electric current through it to burn the appearance of the corrugations into the pipe.

If you need it I will dig out the reference to the issue.

Nick

While totally agreeing with the comments regarding the boiler capacity, LBSC being LBSC the parts are all pretty much the same size as on any other of his locos and are built to the same tolerances (ie none on the drawings) as any other of his locos. The original general arrangement was by Leslie Clarke and LBSC added 'the works' - saying in print that it was intended for people who had stocks of 2 1/2" parts and the equipment to build locos for that gauge.

The materials costs are far smaller and one could be built on a lathe even smaller than the 'standard' 7x10 chinese lathe and the boiler made using far less heat - in fact apart from truing the end of the boiler barrel even the 7 1/4" version from Kennions could be built on a small lathe!

The best loco for a beginner is always going to be the one that they want to build, they can afford, they have access to the tooling for and that can be transported with the means available - one american Tich owner claims to carry his on as cabin baggage when flying to different tracks!

Martin personal message waiting for you

Would that be in Sudbury?

Something to physically attract their attention instantly perhaps?

(From Akira Kurosawa's film 'Throne of Blood' - Macbeth retold with samurai)

I believe that CRT tubes are heavily leaded to prevent radiation leakage.

This a commercial site who talk about recycling CRTs Link

LBSC as one of his 'Make a steam toy for the kids at Christmas' models gave a freelance design for a simple steam hammer to use as a nut cracker - sometime in the fifties.

After the sherries and brandies etc I can see a queue at A&E forming - Good job there were no breathalisers in those days!

You appear to have shown a nice lathe with accessories and the price realised will be for that.

The steadies are quite rare and go for silly money, so you might realise about the same for the lathe with just the accessories but without the steady which would go for a lot of money on its own.

Just an observation.

Edited By Nick Clarke 3 on 09/09/2019 14:50:18

V159910 would be an ML10 or Speed10 from 1985-1988 according to the Myford Website. https://www.myford.co.uk/acatalog/Serial_Numbers.html

Is that the number?

Edited By Nick Clarke 3 on 08/09/2019 15:58:42

A denibbing file is useful for sorting the run you did not want just there!

Denibbing File

Older 3 brush dynamos can be converted into motors quite easily. As has already been pointed out this id a Lucas 2 brush dynamo which cannot be used as a motor without major changes, and even then they are not very good as motors.

As the dynamo appears to be in a loco chassis - Has it run in the past or is it a new installation? If a new installation I would not start with trying to use this dynamo as a motor. If it has run successfully in the past to bring three wires out (+the body as earth, which could be either positive or negative) you need to know exactly what was done to the device, up to possibly a full rewind and separate excitation of the field coils, before you can attempt to find the correct connections.

Alternately try a few different ones and be prepared for it to do nothing, burn out the device or controller, cause a fire or work - those are the options.

I have the SC3 and also a micro milling machine from ArcEuro.

Had an issue (self inflicted) when setting up the mill. Rang Arc late on a Friday. Sorry you need to speak to ……… Can you ring back at about 9:30 tomorrow? (Saturday) Rang back then ………. answered to phone, told me what to do, did not call me an idiot (although on reflection I had been one)

I know that if I ring back about the mill or the lathe I will get the answer - either there and then or when the right guy is there, rather than someone trying to guess to help me out.

That's worth hundreds to me - and the prices were the best as well!

Thanks Ketan, you might be able to guess who ………. is - but every dealing I have had with Arc Euro has been equally successful for me.

Nick

I use either a bench psu from as CB radio set or a transformer that originally powered a scalextric set, whichever I grab first.

I don't know if the CB or scalextric makes me older - I don't like to admit to either.

Michael -

Sussed it out I think. I copied the original link in Martin's Post and inserted it as a link in a new post. When inserting the link I used the original link with typo as the descriptive text - but when adding a link in this forum you only need to put the part after the http:// as URL as it preceeds it with http:// automatically when you fill in the form to add a link. It seems to assume the protocol always ends with :// So Martin's link on the post, with a typo was just text on the screen. The URL it pointed to was correct.

So if you click on the link it will take you to the right place. If you copy and paste in anything but Safari on an iPad it will also do so, but not there. Even more interestingly if you have google installed on the iPad it will open a search result - but the first video it suggests is the one wanted.

Even curiouser I think.

Take care,

Nick

Edited By Nick Clarke 3 on 30/08/2019 19:37:00