Member postings for Dr. MC Black

Very many thanks to everybody for taking the time to respond.

I had NOT heard of Evaporust before today.

I have discovered that the nearest supplier is over 75 miles away. Courier companies have extreme difficulties in making satisfactory deliveries to my home - so mail order is something that I avoid.

Is Evaporust the same as Shield Technology RESTORE?

I would be cautious about putting these End Mills in an Ultrasonic Bath in case the solution damaged the cutting edges.

With best wishes and thanks again.

MC

I really would NOT want anybody to think I was American. I just have trouble typing!

Why does the opportunity to edit "go away"?

Perhaps that's an opportunity for improving the interface!

With best wishes and thanks again.

MC Black (Dr.)

Edited By MC Black on 05/05/2021 11:56:48

Very many thanks to everybody who responded.

Since I'm Clinically Extremely Vulnerable, I'm NOT going out a present so would like to use "stuff" that I have here if possible.

Is Chestnut Product's "Nyweb" the same as Scotchbrite?

How about the similar looking pads aimed at the Washing-up market.

I realised after posting my original message that there's an egregious typographical error! I know that it is possible to edit messages (because I often see a note that a message was edited) but how exactly does one do that please?

I really do NOT want any readers to think that I can't spell!

With best wishes and thanks again.

MC

I have inherited some end mills with a MT2 shank which is mucky and mildly corroded.

What is the best way to clean the Morse Taper.

There is plenty of advise about cleaning female Morse Tapers but I would appreciate advice on cleaning the male Taper

Very many thanks

Are you aware that using the Discount Code SME1000 will give you 5% off of Chronos' list prices?

MCB

Why don't you ask your grandson to make the new labels for you.

How old is he?

He might like to read **LINK**and watch the films there?

MC

I used a vertical slide on my Taig (Peatol) lathe to put slots into steel angle to build a rest for my bench Grinder.

I will add a photograph if I am able to discover how to do so!

If I fail (and if anybody is interested), please send me your email address OFF-LIST and I'll send it.

With best wishes.

MC Black (Dr.)

It's recommended to cancel the Direct Debit or Standing Order with your bank and NOT rely on it NOT being collected by whatever company is involved.

Credit Card recurring payments are more difficult to cancel!

I didn't like the idea of using my (Record) vice as an Anvil so I bought a piece of Steel bar 6 x 6 x 1 inches. It's small enough NOT to get in the way and is a good base to hammer things on. It cost about a Fiver from a Metal warehouse.

The closing bracket after colour "blind" was turned into an icon automatically by the software. I apologise for NOT spotting that.

It seems a completely pointless function to me.

There's legislation about discrimination against disabilities but defective colour vision is NOT classed as a disability by our legislature.

In many cases colours for all sorts of things are chosen by designers (who - by virtue of their profession - are VERY unlikely to have defective colour vision) and no thought at all is given to how things will appear to everybody.

Very many thanks to everybody who pointed out that they sympathise with the problem.

I bought my workmate in the mid-80s so I could build a bench for the garage in my then new house.

I still use it from time to time - especially outside for dirty jobs that I would NOT want to do in my shed-workshop.

I have defective colour vision - I am an extremely protanomalous trichromat.

I can NOT distinguish between the different coloured lines on the graph on page 60 of Issue 303. Only the lowest speed line appears different to the rest.

It would have been much better for ALL readers with defective colour vision (around 3% of the population) if different sorts of dotted and dashed lines had be used rather than different colour. Or the different lines could have been labelled in the margin rather than using a legend.

At first sight it seems that the writer of the article (who is not named) is discriminating against disabled (ie colour "blind" readers.

It seems to me that it's worth paying for Registered Post in cases like this!

MC

My late Mother was a little forgetful

She was given a Field Test by her Optometrist.

It was reported that she had defective vision and was referred to Hospital

After several visits to hospital, it was concluded that there was nothing wrong with her eyes but she had forgotten what she was supposed to do with the button in her hand when lights flashed inside the machine.

She was subsequently diagnosed with Dementia.

The person administering the test should have reminded her to push the button when you see the light flash before every flash.

That is obviously something missing from the Optometrist Training course!!

Mother never drove a car; she was a little dangerous with a borrowed mobility scooter in department stores. We discovered that the big display stands move when hit by a mobility scooter. Riding in a straight line was OK but corners were more of a problem.

Anybody thinking of ordering from Chronos might like to know that using the code "SME1000" give a 5% discount on the Mail Order price.

Same discount to callers (when their premises in Dunstable are open)

MC Black

Sodium Hydrogen Sulphate (=Sodium Bisulphate) used to be the principle ingredient in TOILET CLEANER

It was always recommended NOT to use both Sodium Hydrogen Sulphate and Bleach in the toilet at the same time as the combination generated Chlorine Gas (older readers may recall its use as Poison Gas in the WWI trenches).

It may be worth looking at the ingredients of toilet cleaner on next visit to Tesco.

MC

Thanks to Mr. Wyatt's advice both here and OFF-LIST, I have been able to access the digital archive.

But printing pages is still a problem.

I hope that you and your families are, and will remain, safe and well.

MC Black (Dr.)

Have you considered going as far as you can with a taper tap and then grinding away the taper sufficiently to use what's left to create the full thread?

Although the registration problem was solved, I have NOT been able to view the Archive using my computer because the two are, in some way, incompatible.

I can look at the archive using my iPad but there's no way that I can print from my iPad.

My iPad and my computer can NOT communicate. If anybody believes that he or she may be able to tell me how to do that, please send a UK telephone number and I'll ring so that I can be talked through it.

With best wishes and thanks again.

MC

Very many thanks for taking the time to respond

I have send you an email message as suggested.

Yours sincerely,

MC Black (Dr.)