Member postings for Brian Hutchings

Excellent find. Mine is a round column maching and I've never had any problems with the head moving, even under heavy cuts.There are a number of mods around that allow up and down movement of the head without losing register and I keep meaning to get around to a modification but other things keep getting in the way.

Brian

"Locating eccentrics", I would say just look on this site!!

Brian

I can vouch for the efficacy of Alum solution to remove broken taps. Even when the tap is in steel the solution works to loosen the broken tap so that the core of it falls out, there is no need to disolve it completely but it may be necessary to retap to a larger size if the thread is at all critical. In copper or brass there are no such worries.

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Hello George and welcome. What sort of thing is it that you are interested in?

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Many thanks David, that's just down the road for me!

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Hello Alex and welcome. You cannot get better than answers from the horses mouth (Sorry Neil!)

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Hello David and welcome this site. Hopefully some of the answers on here will help and maybe there will be someone near you who can call and give you some help.

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There was an eaarlier post on Parker-Hale threads which may help.

https://www.model-engineer.co.uk/forums/postings.asp?th=28226

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Hello and welcome NooNoo. There are a number of bike restorers on here, not sure about knife makers but, you never know.

I'm sure some of them will be along shortly.

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Hello and welcome Marcin. No need to worry about your English, it's much better than my Polish!

If you have any questions, just ask and someone on here with know the answer.

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Welcome John, what sort of lathe do you have?

A good source of information is; lathes.co.uk.

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For free to hobbyists, Fusion 360 is the way to go in my opinion, not that it's easy to learn but Lars Christensen videos are a great way to start.

I've managed to draw a couple of parts for my next project, the support is terrific and it really does get easier.

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Hello David, You could try giving Direct Drives a call, I found them to be very helpful recently.

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Direct drives

Hello Richard and welcome to this forum.

Thanks for the reply Neil. I had a look at the MS checker, which allegedly kicks in at startup but it's way out of my depth.

I've managed to sort out most of the problems and my solution is to NOT turn of my PC overnight in the hope that nothing else will change.

I'm currently transfering all my drawings and other important stuff onto another PC and then I'll try removing this latest update.

Brian

Many thanks for all the replies, in a perverse sort of way it's helpful that it's not just me.

Now that the update has been running for a couple of days I've found more problems. My PC loses its way overnight meaning that I have to re-sign in to this site and others, icons disappear from the taskbar, default programs are changed to Microsoft ones or are deleted altogether, send and receive does not work on Outlook and programs pinned to the top of the screen disappear. The time, date and lanquage change every morning to U.S.

Today I intend to save important stuff to another PC and then remove the latest updates.

I'll also investigate the alternatives such as Linux.

Brian

Edited By Brian Hutchings on 17/03/2019 08:19:33

Thanks for the replies and my apologies for being misleading.

It wasn't an email but a popup.

I changed the language to UK but it's taken about 30 hours to have the @ symbol come up when I press the @ key but it's OK now.

Plus one for Lars and Fusion 360.

Brian

I very foolishly clicked on a Windows Update button that came in on email (I think).

It's taken me most of the day to get thinks working again but even so, it's lost all my reminders, all my emails on Microsoft and wouldn't accept my normal passwords so I've had to pick new ones and on top of that it's transposed the @ and the ", which makes life difficult with email addresses until one clocks in.

Not happy with Microsoft.