Member postings for Henry Brown

Well worth all the effort though Fred! Just a thought - is it worth doing a scaled down print of the cores just to se how they look?

Probably depends on the depth of your pocket, My cousin gets through three a year and will only buy Still, they are used five days a week in his gardening maintenance business.

I used a 2T engine hoist to lift my SX4 mill (400kg) into place, it worked fine. I also used it to do some initial moves of my GH1220 lathe (500kg) and then made a floor standing lifting beam to put it in its final position. I say final, because I'm a bit limited on space I have to lift the lathe out if I need to access the electrics box on the rear. That stays in place above the lathe with one leg removed so it isn't in the way.

I picked up a second hand sling from ebay, 1 tonne rated which was plenty good enough for what I wanted and I didn't have to rely on unknown bits rope.

I'd go for a 2nd hand or hired engine crane as a a starter for your machines, making sure the bench you drop them on has room for the forward facing legs on the crane.

It might be worth mentioning where you are, someone on here might have something suitable you could borrow, hope it all goes well.

Jason is on the money again! We just need a device that we enter the Inter(im) as shown above, when we get to the next junction that Inter distance is added, it's all about getting from one junction to the next junction, ensuring any others are ignorined any along the way.

I had seen a bike set up used but now they can be had for very little money with GPS rather than the magnet/sensor that would have been the way to go, but the main problem is that they are so small, obvious when they have to be on a bike, our phone with a 5" display should be more than adequate. I'm just looking at doing a 3D printed mount for it...

Bill, Gerald, this is a tour, a non competitive event, but thanks for the heads up!

I did check the final instructions, if fact it was there I saw information on how to calibrate the mileometer using a stretch of road near the start of the event that made me think about a trip meter, there's no mention of not using a sat nav.

My car speedo reads about 7-8 mph slow at 30mph hence the use of my old TomTom for speed limits, which works fine, but doesn't give me the required info for point to point measurement. At some stage the engine and box will be coming out and I can change the drive gear then, but that won't be before next Sunday!

Thanks for all the replies. I have an anchient TomTom sat nav that won't do the countdown from point to point and having looked at others it seems they are focused on using directions to a named destination rather than just measuring distance travelled. I also have a Garmin Montana (for geocaching) that can do the job but is pretty long winded.
I think pgk and Jason have hit the nail on the head, I must admit I hadn't thought about using a phone, with one of the rally apps. We have gps enabled smart phones and as it will be used in the car it can be connected to power, I just need to see which is the easiest to use.

It me asking for advice again!

I am joining a classic car tour in the next few weeks and could do with a device (not necessarily a Sat Nav) that can be used to count down to junctions. We are provided with a road book, a bit like road rallying, that has distances between the junctions.

As the wife will be operating it what ever I get needs to b easy to use with reasonable sized buttons.

I've looked for rally type devices and they cost to much for my occasional use, so any suggestions would be appreciated.

Silly design! Any rain is directed straight at the brickwork. Repro!

The business improvement team at the Co I worked at looked into warehouse storage of casting patterns because it was costing thousands of pounds a year, two warehouses were cleared of patterns that were obsolete. They also looked into the stores and scrapped over £100,000 worth of speculative or over produced parts.

Me, I try to keep "useful" stuff to a minimum due to only having limited storage. Wood is my biggest bugbear, it is so expensive and takes up so much space. In addition most wood from DIY places is rubbish these days, more like balsa, If it has to go it gets chopped up for the wood burner.

Clearly not what I had in mind

I think that was the one Frost Auto Restorations used to sell. I have one, it has a painted yellow body...

Very nice Peter, a friend has had a few of these, one hard top, the rest convertibles. Well built and as you say very reliable, I think his only real issue was with the electric hood but that won't bother you! Looking forward to seeing more form you and wondering what year the car is?

Changed the oil in the GH1322 lathe yesterday, first change since new this time last year!

Its supposed to be done at 6 months but as I haven't been using the lathe much over winter I wasn't too worried. The cleaner (lighter) oil is from the headstock and shows no contamination other than a bit of moisture maybe. That from the gearbox is quite dark and seems to have some very fine casting deposits in it. I flushed the gearbox and will change that again in a few months time and see what comes out.

Excellent! I wonder if it would fit on the back of Four Stroke Fred's tractor

Some folk use a mix of EP90 oil and LM2 grease for the front axle swivels of older Land Rovers. It's also referred to as one shot. Others swear by just EP90. Surprised the gearbox is full to the brim though...

I bought a lovely carbon steel bladed British hand made knife a few years ago while in Scotland on holiday, it has Barlow stamped on the handle and Sheffield England on the blade I think that Barlow is the type...

I inherited my late dad's aluminium framed workmate and I have one from the mid 80's I bought when I was renovating my last home. I still use them both, often outside for dirty or dusty jobs or when I need to do DIY heaven forbid. I did manage to get some spares a while back from a Black & Decker shop when I was passing through Nottingham, likely long gone. Seeing this thread I wondered if the plastic parts are still available, a quick brose through ebay showed up most parts are...

Just to close the loop on this one, I ended up with a 17.3" Lenovo Legion 5 (2.6/5.0Mhz, 16gb RAM, 512gb SSD) bought direct from Lenovo with nine months interest credit.

It pretty much fulfils all my requirements and on opening this morning seems to be a very well made and sturdy machine. I was surprised to find that on reading the start-up info there is a SD card slot is this 17.3" version, a very well kept secret that even Lenovo help didn't acknowledge!

Thanks for everyone's help enabling me to get this far, I've just got to learn all the new stuff on it now!

I'm pleased it's not just me then!

I try to plan ahead and buy what I need when I need it! I have ended up with all sorts and sizes but mainly good quality HSS...