Member postings for Dr. MC Black

Very many thanks for taking the time to respond.

I have read the information on both of the links (but the link on the Woodworking forum for the recommended supplier didn't work for me!)

With best wishes and thanks again.

MC

Does anybody know if the abrasive belts for the Sorby Pro-Edge are the same size as Axminster’s Ultimate Edge, please?

The two machines look very similar and it would be useful to know if Axminster’s belts will fit the Pro-Edge, and vice versa.

Has anybody experience of Third Party belts for either machine?

Sir Joseph Whitworth !

If you are interested .............

Sir Joseph Whitworth, 1st Baronet FRS FRSA (21 December 1803 – 22 January 1887) was an English engineer, entrepreneur, inventor and philanthropist. In 1841, he devised the British Standard Whitworth system, which created an accepted standard for screw threads. Whitworth was created a baronet by Queen Victoria in 1869. Upon his death in 1887, Whitworth bequeathed much of his fortune for the people of Manchester, with the Whitworth Art Gallery and Christie Hospital partly funded by Whitworth's money. Whitworth Street and Whitworth Hall in Manchester are named in his honour. (copied from Wikipedia)

Why don't you use a BSW die to cut the thread?

MC

Why doesn't Mr. Lautard appoint an agent in the United Kingdom to sell his books and drawings?

I think it's essential to be able to print pages from the magazine

I want to be able to print drawings and take them into my workshop.

I do NOT have a computer in my workshop and looking at the drawing on screen makes it difficult to add notes with a pencil.

Another problem is the need for Java (whatever that is) which is incompatible with my system, it seems.

MC

Do you have any lawyers among (or married to) your members?

Have you considered becoming a CIO? There's lots of information on the Charity Commission web-site including specimen constitutions

Lots of Clubs have become Charities.

MC

The books are available if one searches second-hand book sites but it seems that one would be VERY lucky to be able to buy them at less than £100 each.

MC Black

I inherited a large number of 26 tpi taps and dies, including some marked LH, from a chum whose late father was a cycle enthusiast many years ago.

If anybody is interested in giving them a good home, please contact me OFF-LIST

MC

Can you make one?

Drill holes in a steel strip the same distance apart as the notches

Fasten set screws using nuts to the strip. Use screws that are just the right length.

I made something on those lines for adjustments on my lathe.

MC

Web-sites are fine if the man who wrote it uses the same term for the item as the potential purchaser.

With a paper catalogue, one can look through the appropriate section and see if any illustrations ring bells.

Printed catalogues for me all the time. I appreciate that other readers may have different views (especially if they are under 70!)

MC

I don't have any family and shall leave the content of my workshop to the Society of Model & Experimental Engineers when I die. That way I trust that the items will go to somebody who will enjoy using them and the Society will gain some benefit.

MC

I was told by somebody at RS (which I still think of as Radiospares) that they no longer have a catalogue - so I stopped buying things from them.

Have they now reintroduced it?

MC

I tried clicking the link at the end of the film but nothing happened!

I wondered if it's possible to buy one of those rulers in the United Kingdom

MC

Thank you for taking the time to respond.

I have now installed the calculator on both iPhone and iPad. it appeared that the same thing was available at £3.99 and free. I'll see how useful it is in practice.

I have been using a Hewlett Packard 11C calculator since the mid 70s. That uses Reverse Polish Notation and I've found that it's available for the iPad - "Touch Fin RPN" without charge.

This is an exact copy of the physical calculator and can be switched from Scientific to Financial functions (which the physical one can't)

I find it very difficult to use a calculator with algebraic notation these days!

MC

The Apple store offers various calculators for fractions - but how can one tell which are FREE and which require payment?

I have not been able to set up my iPhone for payments - and it has NOT proved a problem to date.

MC

Thank you for taking the time to respond.

If a firm wants to sell me a printer, I would want the salesman (who will be getting commission on the sale) to do the research and tell me which models will work with my computer.

When I have risked looking, every model on which I checked required an Operating System much later than the one that I have.

Both my GP and a Consultant orthopaedic surgeon have strongly advised me to minimise computer use as a response to a physiological problem about which I have consulted them.

I can just about cope (by using specialist software) with brief communications such as this; anything more than that - like badly designed web sites - has unpredictable consequences.

MCB

My printer stopped working so I tried to replace it with a mono laser.

I contacted various purveyors of printers asking what would work with an Apple Mac running OS 10.6.8

None could be bothered to help - and consequently lost my business.

Any suggestions please?

MC

In retrospect (and hindsight is the most exact of all disciplines), I wish that I had been taught Latin (the language, a boy told me, spoken by dead Romans).

This was in the 80s before moulded plugs were supplied on appliance.

The new colour scheme is intended to reduce the chance of wires being connected incorrectly.

I have found that moulded plugs have overheated in the past and had to replace them with MK Safety Plugs or MK Super Plugs.

I was teaching, at the time, some boys who needed to remove Shoes and Socks if counting above ten. I hoped that if they learned one thing from my (Physics) classes, it was how to wire a 13A plug.