Member postings for Phil Meaken

I always thought that it either toasts or does nothing; if nothing, you throw it away and buy another.
I'll stick to our Dualit; 1947 to present design and completely free of electronics.

Mike.

I sorted this out years ago by never getting a newish car. I have a Citroen ZX diesel from the 1990's, my wife has a Dyane made in 1981. These will last as long as we do, they are easy to service, don't depreciate in value and new spares will always be around.
We've had a Dyane from the 1970's and have travelled all around Europe with complete reliability and comfort, packed full of camping gear!

New cars are scrap after about twenty years and cannot be repaired properly.

As I said, Anthony, I'll leave it until the software on here is updated. I did briefly try imagemagick as I said earlier, but got nowhere - one reason is that using images with Linux on this laptop has problems, other is there are reasons due to how my brain works which I won't go into.

Russell, that book looks like just what I need, so I've ordered it via Amazon.
The LibreOffice "Getting Started Guide" which I got a few years ago I found wasn't that good, albeit being quite long. If only it had an index ...

Thanks to all, but most ways seem to need too much of a long-winded faff or need extra packages to be installed, so I'll just not bother with graphics until the ME software is updated.

As for text, indeed I do most in LibreOffice and Copy and Paste into here.

I've ordered one (for my 3-slot rotary lable).

It just says :Remove format"

I'm certainly one of those, but as my laptop is probably just as ancient, I use Linux and a floaty mouse!

Mike

Trying that now, Nick.

Just to clarify, I use a laptop with Linux – no Windoze here!

Probably a couple of daft questions here, but I cannot see how to add a picture into a post I’ve done.
My pics are usually from text with .odt from LibreOffice but I can convert them to .docx or .bmp easily.
Or .bmp from a scanner.

The other question is, can the font size in a post I’m writing be changed? I find it far too tiny to see write and read and have to [copy] and [paste] with Arial 13pt using LibreOffice, as I've done here.

Mike.

Thanks, Jason, that's exactly what I want! Will be ordering it soon. You see, apart from hex and square, I will need to drill trundles of lantern pinions of all sorts of different hole sizes and numbers.

Thanks yet again,

Mike.

Thanks to all who've replied, but I think that the various answers weren't what I was really looking for; to clarify I'm going to start a new thread so this one can be closed.

I need to be able to get something that will clamp different sizes of brass bar and easily mill hexagons, squares or other different things (torx?) easily by just rotating the milling table.

As a newbie on here, is it possible for the Mods to lock this thread?

Thanks

Mike.

Edited By Phil Meaken on 17/03/2021 14:47:24

John,

Unimat which I use to cut wheels isn't beefy enough to use milling cutters, and even it it was, it would take forever doing that.

1 1/8 12 tpi, Jason. It's a 1947 Myford ML7. The morse taper shank can be removed from the headstock.

Mike.

I saw it, Jason, but the problem would be how to hold the 3-jaw chuck onto the rotary table (the RT doesn't have a morse taper, BTW,)

Mike.

Edited By Phil Meaken on 16/03/2021 14:24:17

Dave,

I’ve looked at these Stevenson thingies on ARC and they seem to be the better idea.

Old mart,

I’m sure I can get hex brass but i’d prefer to make my own from the existing bits of material with any size I wanted

Howard,

I’ve PM’d you but I don’t have an ER collet and I cannot understand how the Stevenson gadgets work – how are they gripped solid?

John,

Yes, I do, but very occasionally. I use a dividing plate on my Unimat lathe and move the motor to vertical with a home-made single point cutter.

Jason,

The problem is how to hold the stock in the rotary table, irrespective on how the is held.

Mike.

Edited By Phil Meaken on 16/03/2021 10:18:12