Member postings for Russell Eberhardt

A bit more progress. All wheels now planted and running smoothly, (picture added to album). I made one planting error and had to bush the plates and try again but all's well now.

Next task is to sort out the escapement. At the moment I can't get it to work on the depthing tool so more investigation is needed.

Russell.

OK here on PCLinuxOS and Firefox (13.0).

Russell.

It is far too generous when it only costs about 5p/kWh to generate it in a nuclear power station which also generates zero carbon emmissions.

Russell.

As does the Linux version.

Russell.

Peter,

Sorry I don't know if Autocad 2000 will run on Windows 7. Vista certainly gave problems. I was running it on Windows XP with no problems but I now run Linux with XP running on a virtual machine it used to run OK but an upgrade to the virtual machine software has broken something.

If you upgrade your machine why not stick to XP. Failing that, if you can stand the complexity of the program you can get Autocad 2013 here free of charge if you are either a student or a retired professional engineer.

Me, I'll stick to Draftsight nowthere are Mac, Linux, and Windows versions available all free.

Russell.

You can do this in DraftSight by choosing from the menus; Insert > Reference Image. You will however have to ba careful to get the scale right.

Russell.

Unless you are using it all the time I find the latest versions of Autocad too complicated. I used to find Autocad 2000 to be good but my current machine won't run it so I use Draftsight which is similar - and it's free.

Russell

If it is, just change the motor wiring from star to delta and buy an inverter. Infinitely better than single phase.

Russell.

P.S. Well perhaps not infinitely but certainly much smoother!

If it is, just change the motor wiring from star to delta and buy an inverter. Infinitely better than single phase.

Russell.

Redrawing in CAD will also help you to spot any errors in the original drawings.

+1 for Draftsight.

Russell.

If you look about halfway down this thread you will see a good description of how to tram the head/column.

Russell.

If you follow Trevor's line it would be a good idea to make a shield of some sort to protect the scales from swarf. I have made a similar mod but mounted the long scale at an angle under a piece of ali angle to give it some protection. I've still had to dismantle the scale to remove tiny bits of swarf from the pcb tracks on the readout.

Russell.

Thanks for that. I've just ordered a bunch of them. Unfortunately Homebase won't post to France so it will be a while before I get my hands on them.

Russell.

However this page and the main page are still showing 4 code errors on validation. There is no guarantee that browsers will all handle the fauly code the same way.

Russell.

How about something like this ?

Russell.

. . . and a more powerful belt driven head assembly

Russell.

I have a Victorinox Swiss Army Knife which I've had for about 30 years. The spring in the scissors broke so I emailed them to see if they would sell a new spring. They told me to send it back to Switzerland for repair, free of charge, as they are guaranteed for life. Will you get that service from China?

Russell.

I agree that the Super X2 Plus is a good choice. I've recently taken delivery of one (in France) for converting to CNC.

I stripped it down completely, following earlier experience of Far East machines, and was surprised at how well it was put together. The only problems were the poorly drilled locating holes in the gib strips (easily fixed) and the fact that the drawbar for the drill chuck had been tightened by a gorrila!

Russell.

If you stone it on the front edge rather than the top of the teeth there is no dager of loosing the correct angle and you should be able to do it by hand if it is not too bad.

Russell.

Or Kwrite on a Linux box.

Russell.