Member postings for JC54

What have I been doing today? Jobs around the house for "HER THAT MUST BE OBEYED" As I have managed to get transport to Midland Exhibition on Friday? Earn the Brownie points whilst you can

As was mentioned earlier in this thread--- I thoroughly recommend Steel2Go in Grantham EBAY. I have used them for several years and had superb service and quality from them. I must add that I am not connected to them JUST a very satisfied customer..

Hoping to get there Friday if I can get a lift with a friend of a friend??? Brother in law was going but he has a bad attack of THUMB trouble,,,, her that must be obeyed has banned him from going.

If you think that running electrics to the shed is ludicrous try getting the go ahead to lower a path so that you can drive onto your property and not block the road with your legally parked vehicle.. LOCAL COUNCILS..

Coming a bit late to this thread, I am a complete newcomer to making a boiler or silver soldering. I started reading this series of articles at about the time that the pump was being finished. I have a need for an upright boiler for a project that I am in the process of drawing up and am going to attempt this boiler first as a learning exercise. I do agree that some of the articles do seem a bit long winded at times but for us complete beginners please remember that you cannot build the house until the foundations are in and correct!!!!! I have one problem in that I have ordered and recieved all of the back issues except for one. I am not sure if this is the correct place to ask but has anyone got a copy of ME 4578 19th January 2018 that they are willing to sell me? This is for Part 2 of the boiler build. Many thankc JC

Just checked out link to Alibre, needs 64 bit system just like fusion 360. Have I got to upgrade/replace computer to use a 3D system?

I regularly display an electric powered "traction engine" that my late father built around 2000AD. It is 12v and will just pull you along. Due to ill health I now show the Threshing Drum and Elevator that he built. If any interest can try to upload pictures.

As there is no pub in our little village I brew my own beer. Very similar to Newkie brown a bit darker. Advantages,,, 50p a pint, not drinking and driving, We brewed ginger beer as a youngster using a "Ginger Beer Plant" we bottled it in any bottle we could find, beg or steal. It exploded in the airing cupboard that put a ban on brewing at home.... Mother was not amused but Dad could be seen snickering when he thought we couldn't see him. John

Following up on feedscrew endfloat, when I got my first lathe (a 1908 Drummond) I was horrified to find 10mm of backlash in the cross slide... Thinking where do you get parts for a 110 year old lathe, panic. On closer inspection majority of it was in feedscrew endfloat. Couple of spacers and thrust bearings backlash now tolerable. May try a Delrin feedscrew nut sometime but at the minute too busy learning how to use the lathe. John

My late father built a model Clayton Threshing Drum and it is painted a yellowish beige with pink framework. He helped with a real one until after WW2 so should have got the colours correct. Small world Adam we are in Grantham area still....

There are pedestrian crossings over the road from the car park, also a brilliant fish and chip shop next to car park.