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There is no brass plating on this one, what you see is what you get, I've already tried some oil in it and the drip adjustment seems to work fine. so for less than £5 it's very good.

I ordered one from China, a 1/4 BSPP thread, it was an experiment to see if it would get stopped at customs for VAT etc. it only cost £4.39. rather strangely it arrived today from from Germany! however it's the wrong size, more like M14 so way too big for my lathe. Apart from that is appears very well made. I could make an adapter easily enough but for the price it seems very good.

My leanto workshop has a transparent roof! I have shade netting and old camouflage netting strung across but it obviously gets rather hot. It even melted some hot melt glue sticks a few years back

My son gave me a Celestron Astromaster 130 just 2 weeks ago and as yet not had a clear sky to view anything, last night the sky was fairly clear but the moon was hazy so will try again tonight

Thanks for advice and diagram etc. I finally got the plunger to move after using clock oil, it returns exactly to zero every time either from a short movement or several rotations of the needle, it just gets stuck if pushed all the way in so still perfectly usable

Edited By vic newey on 02/07/2021 17:20:32

But what is put in contact with the workpiece? I have a couple of finger types and several more plunger types but this one shows no way to use it as far as I can see

I had one of these in a small lot of engineering bits & pieces, mine is stuck the same as Geoff's was.

By removing the little screw on the back I've dripped in a little watchmakers oil but I'm not sure exactly how you would use it ? My other dials have either a piston or a little pressure lever but what should this one have to operate it ?

It's a similar thing with the extended warranties they try to offer you when the one year is up, £125 a year to insure a £250 machine so why pay that.

Also the extended 'free' warranties that include the parts but not the labour which may be £125 per hour. We had a quote for a faulty electric showers 'free' repair of a tiny sensor that had already failed and been fixed under it original warranty. It failed again and the engineers visit was going to be £185. Needless to say we bought a new one of a different make.

You can use silver solder to join steel and other ferrous metals, unlike soft solder it makes a strong joint

At least I know nothing is missing on my saw then I think the poster les dc on Youtube lives in the USA , I wouldn't have thought any of the saws would have ended up over there

Someone asked on my Kennedy Youtube video if the felt oilers are missing on the top hex bar?

I have no idea about this, has someone got a photo showing what they look like?

Another attempt on my vintage Pittler lathe, this time I have both the leadscrew drive and a milling cutter running off the overhead. It's running with the original milling head supplied with the lathe c1895. It takes 8mm collets but I don't have a suitable small end mill so it's fitted in a small chuck as a means to get it up & running

Milling a spiral on vintage lathe

The gaiter is not really there just to keep anything getting in the oil, it's to stop oil overflowing when you lift up the arm

The second rod works to push against the disk underneath the plunger, it's supposed to adjust the resistance the oil makes against the pull of the spring. The disk is slightly loose on the bolt, it is to allow the oil to flow easily through when you lift the saw arm up, otherwise most of it will pull up into the gaiter.

When the arm is coming down against the oil the disk pushes against & blocks the holes unless the adjuster thread protrudes a fraction to speed it up. I probably have the wrong grade oil in mine as the adjuster does very little.

Here is mine speedily cutting a bar

Vic's Kennedy saw

I used to enjoy fixing clocks, I was working in a womans house decades ago and there was a grandfather clock in the hall, an 18/19th century type with painted dial

It wasn't working so I asked the lady about it. oh she said, my Daughters ex husband bought it for her and it used to work at one time.

I offered to take a look and she readily agreed, I opened the case and discovered there were hardly any parts of the mechanism there, just the bare bones so impossible to have worked, she assured me it did work so unless her ex had sneaked in and removed the cogs it was a bit of a mystery

Very interesting, I've been setting up my vintage c.1895 Pittler B2 to try spiral turning, it has an overhead drive to the tailstock, this is my first attempt but it's not milling on the video, just slowly cutting a coarse spiral as a test run.

The Pittler B2 uses a worm and one of 17 worm wheels for spirals and screw cutting

spiral cutting on a vintage Pittler B2

I next need to fit the milling attachment to the top-slide which will also run off the overhead drive if I can sort out the pulley belt from slipping.

Bob, is it important for you to need plans in order to copy an old gun? I only ask because most books on guns for e.g usually give the overall dimensions, from that you can then scale up the lock size and barrel length. Using plans means you will not get to make a unique replica design as I did.

Before I made the Nuremburg pistol I also made another Wheelock pistol in the style of Brescia in Italy, they are inlaid with incredibly fine steel tracery, a daunting task that was way beyond me so I was daft to even try it.

The barrel was fluted on my little 1961 Unimat lathe set up for milling but the other barrel & lock ornamentation I did by hand with jewellers chisels etc, I started this in the early 1970's, the Walnut stock has carving but this gun never got finished, no trigger either and was up in my loft looking a bit rusty

Just as I thought Robert, it's all old cartridge guns being misused by criminals rather than muzzle loaders, I expect many a skilled machinist could make the ammunition as well.

I note one of your links leads to a page headed with a flintlock pistol so that's typical of  giving the wrong impression of what is actually happening

Edited By vic newey on 18/06/2021 14:34:15