Member postings for Roger Best

"...long term ambitions".

Well if its 9" showman's engines then big is best.

For the rest of us I am developing the opinion that you should just get the biggest and best table-top machine you can afford. One that you can put a lot of storage underneath, not just the little metal cabinets they sell.

The reason is off course space. Either you have loads or you have a limit. If you have a life outside of model engineering then space is competitive and there is never enough.

Edited By Roger Best on 19/09/2022 19:11:29

This is a tricky one. Thanks for posting so many good photos.

I don't think that is threaded, there isn't enough of a non-round edge to show there is one. A few defects yes, but the brass bit is very round.

The dot probably denotes which way round it faces, especially if the nut can be adjusted.

The dents in the surface make me think its been riveted in, or rather "upset" to fit tight into the hole. If so it will be a super-pain to get out as neither hole or stub will be round. If you can remove the top mm you might confirm this theory or disprove it, you may see signs of a thread, or it may come loose.

Good luck, I am sure there is value in doing so thorough a job.

Well done Dave!

Thanks for posting your tips.

The nut works, so quality is satisfied. That is all we can expect mechanically. There is is a reason Ade stripped his Warco down.

That said they are cheap for what they do.

Wow, what a story.

At this point I would strip the spindle and use heat& cold cycles and a big press. HOWARDT has expressed a better way and I applaud his civility.

I think that might involve cutting the tool head off with an angle grinder, it likely to be pretty hard.

The default delivery specification for pallet delivery is "curbside", even in the UK.

Any moving away from the truck needs to be clearly specified by contract with a competent company.

The material should be very stable, if there is any stress in it when its produced it might warp as most of the machining is on one side, the casting must be stress relieved by age or heat before machining if its to stay straight.

Blondihacks has done exactly this, it cost a fortune and she documented it well.

Blondihacks move first video

I have considered this possibility, our adult children live near my relatives and we would want to move nearer any future grandchildren when we retired.

I think I decided that I would buy a container of a modest size and bolt the workshop into it. If I was careful with the weight I could then have it lifted intact by lorry loader and deposited in the new garden. It would have to be short in height and length obviously to qualify as a permissible shed but my current workshop is small so I would still find it spacious.

Unfortunately SWMBO is a gardener and so I won't be allowed to live in an industrial unit, a proper house will be mandated.

Wonderful FEA Dave, that's pretty much a perfect match.

Bernard's bung looks like a good idea.

It all looks terrific Bob, a work of art.

Paint is a real nag, I am building a booth in my workshop as I never want to paint when there is good weather. It takes up a lot of space but should help my sanity.

Does you chain manufacturer do "half links"? that might halve your problem. A tensioner is a good idea although to allow axle movement I think the bars that Werner refers to are better, not sure how they fit in this design.

Cloud cuckoo land.

I am a huge advocate of green tech but some things are just not achievable or viable at the scale they advocate.

Growing stuff to burn or bio-digest it at the scale of our enormous consumption of fossil fuels is hopeless, for instance we have to import wood for Drax, we can't even feed one wood pellet burning power station, let along six.

Move the playing field, bio-digest waste and use wind and tidal power for the bulk of our energy needs and there may be an argument, but to use valuable agricultural land to grow fuel is wasteful when so many people in the world are hungry.

A big thank you to Geoff for the folder and other stuff I took off him Saturday, and for the hospitable welcome.

His collection of machine tools are wonderful and I would have had a few of them if I had any room. Definitely worth a look if you are remotely interested. They all have lots of machine-dedicated tooling.

Sorry to hear that Geoff, pm sent.

Reading through again I note that the shed door ruins my concept, and that the assumed weight of the head is proposed to be only 50kg.

I know that when Ade of ADES WORKSHOP disassembled his WM16A the head was very much heavier than the other parts.

The two machines are not scaled twins, so it won't be exactly pro-rata but there is a good chance the head is heavier than expected, the main block is mostly metal whereas the other parts are mostly air.

I am looking forward to the pictures.

I would build a trolley out of a few bits of angle iron and some big castors or 8" wheels, bolt it to the stand and give the assembly a bigger wheelbase, then it wouldn't need to be stripped down.

You could probably move a lot of stuff with it.

Waco do such a thing, although not intended for the size I have in my head.

I was a certified "appointed person" for lifting and the thing that makes moving stuff easy is big equipment. Always get bigger than you think you need. I have also been a machine tool designer so I can see both side of the argument.

I am sure there is some consolidation in the market, personally I detest that every fitting I desire is Edison Screw and not Bayonet Cap.

Its worth remembering that for detailed work you need about 4 times the brightness (lumens per area) than you can get away with, and your iris will close so it doesn't feel that much brighter, however your focus will improve and you will get less eye strain. Think of it as modest expense to future-proof your eyes.

I have double LED tubes over all of my benches and machines and still use directional task lighting because it still makes a terrific difference.

Sadly our lives will be seriously impacted by current events, most of which are the result of politics.

The biggest issues are obviously not easy to influence from little old Blighty, but that doesn't stop us having to survive them and that needs the British Government to act appropriately as well as individuals.

Sour and cynical might be hear for a little longer.

I am pretty sure that the 2 second rule has been in place since I started driving 40 years ago. The Mrs has reminded me that it applies only in clear, dry weather.

I suspect that 4 seconds was more appropriate for the brakes of the cars I drove for the first 15 years, probably right up to my first anti-lock braked car.

88% "pilot error" seems against the principles of process safety, It implies that the reliance on humans is too much, such as the way information is presented or the nature of the controls.

The "normal" solution to that is modern avionics which has resulted in several accidents as flexible pilots are replaced with inflexible automatic safety systems. Ho hum, roll on self-driving cars.

Noooooo.

Chicken Kiev was invented when Russia ruled what is now Ukraine, hence the Russian name.

I am happy its being changed in the same way as I am happy that Ayers Rock has had its name restored to Uluru, some people have a greater right to name something and we should respect that our historic, anglicised name is decidedly second best.

FIVE!!

If I had confidence that was going to remain I would be running for a gas boiler and loose any ambition I had for electric heating, (heat pump of otherwise.)

My strategy that carbon energy will become expensive relative to wind power is proving true, unfortunately the way we are charged reflects an inflated market rate due to lack of gas. So daft.