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Welcome along Tim. Many accomplished engineers on this forum , that will give you plenty of help along your journey.

I brought mine home alone & me & my son lifted the whole thing on to the bench between us. P.S I am an old weak fa-rt but it was pretty easy to do.

Steve.

That explains everything. Being told for over a year the machine is off. Thanks for the link.

Steve.

Well as the thread starter I only thought it fair to put my hand up to all the guys who have never eaten fast food or frequented them.

As a teenager we used to visit the Wimpey burger joint regularly.

Also if anyone remembers the Golden egg group.

Burger king.

KFC.

Pizza hut.

Chinese takeaway.

Indian takeaway.

Valentino's.

Nando's the list goes on. I actually cook a lot at home using fresh ingredients but still go out to these type of places a bit. If i did not my Grandkids would disown me i guess. Only this evening we had 2 senior Fish & chip meals. I thought i was quite normal. But after reading some of the replies here i am not too sure now.

Steve.

You are obviously much younger than me or much more Tech savvy. I am neither of those & it said to me forget the free lunch & that is what i did. Now i sit here starving hungry , but satisfied that i did not let them pry into my P.C of which you say they all do. MMM.

Beans on toast tomorrow then.

Steve.

I think i'm too old to start saving for a glass of that.

I would have settled for a Choc milk shake if the darn machines were working.

Steve.

Don't know what you are talking about.

Cardboard chips, semi dry bread cake, bouncy rubber burger. What's not to like.

There apple pies are nice though.

Oh & the continual beep beeps from the machinery. As said don't often go there. We had actually gone for a Carvery to the local newish pub. We were told the Carvery had finished & only main menu available (Mega expensive) this was at 6:15 in the evening ???. They close at 11:00pm. Anyway that's how we ended up at the Colton food places. KFC. Pizza hut or Mc. we will not be going there again for a while.

Steve.

HaHa very funny. . I would'nt care but i only go once a blue moon & the milk shake machines have not worked for over a year. Someone said they don't have any staff who will clean the intricate machine.

Steve.

I went to McDonalds for a burger & on the receipt is said. Fill in the survey online & receive a free meal. So i went online & the 1st thing you had to click the checkbox on was this. It is only a picture I took of it so quite safe.They want every detail from your P.C & you give them permission too. This should not be allowed.

I know they all send cookies etc but this is the 1st time i have seen anything like this.

Guess i'm not getting a free burger.

Steve.

Hi Shaun. Welcome along. It seems you have pretty much everything in the shop. Most new members are just starting out & building there equipment up.

I bet there will be quite a few other members of the Forum down your way.

Steve.

That is exactly what an inverter does.You set the up to full speed time at what you want. Example 5- 10 secs or whatever. seconds. So the inverter ramps up the power slowly which would annul the inrush if DOL. As long as the FLC is not more than the rating of the inverter. Hope this helps.

Steve. P.S You will probably now get lots of other advice. Contrary to mine.

From a retired industrial Electrician.

Are you thinking of running all the machines at once. If not then you could just draw what is needed at one time. I would not think of overloading a Inverter. Underload no problem. Although when setting up a Inverter you input the Max current of the motor to use. Which would be difficult if you had multiple motors with different FLC.

Steve.

The largest i have & use with some success on the small Tom Senior with MT2 taper is 63mm 5 inserts. I have 2. One has the standard type square inserts while the other has the round disc type. They both work very well, although i only take light cuts. I think the deepest i tried was 0.25mm but uisually less. I have shown them many times in use on my youtube video's. I also think JasonB has shown a few too. What i found was quality is the most important. I have a 50mm 5 insert i think imported version . It is both very noisy & sparks like a firework. The big ones are top quality ones Widax & work much better. Probably more down to the inserts than the actual cutter body. Hope this helps.

Steve.

Yes i did get a bit on my arms. Luckily a neighbour had given me some oversleeve protectors. They helped immensely.

Steve.

Yes looking back it would have been much better to spend more time on prep. My problem was it is something I had never done before. So if I were to do it again i would follow what you advise.

Thanks for the info Dave.

Steve.

Oh dear , so sad after waiting all that time. I guess you being honest did cause the refusal. I hope they get you booked on another soon. I do know with cruises they are very strict probably because of the confines of a ship with so many people.

Always fancied a cruise but so expensive.

Steve.

Hi Dave. The side panel did not require any filler. I just gently rubbed down the stipply gel coat which was quite thick. The part came out very good with very little prep for paint. I guess making it from MDF was a mistake as it's a tad porous, hence the rough finish.

The reason i missed lots of footage of more work was the intention was not for a Youtube video. But just to show friends.

The reinforcing at the back was done with Stainless steel tube 25mm dia. This was held in place with clamps & then overlaid with single matt. Then once cured that was overlaid with around 5" deep , what i will call 4 ply matting. I know it's termed in Grams but not sure of the rating.

No magic, just hours & hours of tedious stippling resin from underneath. The corner post was just overlaid with 3 coats of matting until solid.

Thanks Ady. It took a while but turned out far better than I expected.

Hi there. I have just found this subject Vehicle restoration. So i am posting a video for anyone to watch. It is mostly of the rebuilding of Glass fibre parts. I had to make patterns for the moulds , which were made from Insulation foam & wood.

From taking ownership of the smashed vehicle to repairing , painting & completing.

It is something I had never done before so it was a challenge. This was from about 5 years ago, but only just got around to making a video.

Steve.

Yes Hopper. I hold a pretty low chance of this idea working. Once steel has stretched then i think it would be very hard to reform it.

Steve.