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Thread: Boring Question
09/02/2010 11:38:40
Bout time these web site
 
designers put safegaurds in to stop
 
 overflow so we could read
 
 ALL the posting.
 
  Horizontal advertising
 
 MIGHT help.
 
  Regards
 
  Ian.
07/02/2010 13:06:06
And if Richmond digs out  the series of articles by "Duplex" in the 1948 M/Es "In the Workshop" the original grinding jig will be shown.
 
  Regards  Ian.
Thread: B & Q Steel stock
06/02/2010 09:43:08
Their sales department seem to have the inch/metric conversion falling to their advantage. Make sure you order in INCHES and FEET.
 
  Regards   Ian.
Thread: Spindle Speed
06/02/2010 09:27:13
Well, after the latest triadibe and swarf slinging, just seen on another foureye that a car type rev counter with a "Hyundi" cam position indicator was used to look at the shaft speed.
 
  Just as an aside, if you're listening to the "Noise" Robbo, save the cost of an electronic Tacho.
 
   Regards  Ian.
05/02/2010 20:07:33
Aye, cynical with good reason pet. Many years ago I worked in the Textile machinery design trade and three customers making the same end product , each had exactly the same machinery but running at within 10's of revs to each other to achieve cotton wool with NO discernable difference but all adament that THEIRS was the correct speed.
 
  My own lathe has eight speeds and my miller has four. Plenty to pick from, so if the new guys have a problem with such a limited range how the devil are they supposed to cope with zero to whatever??
 
  Regards, the cynic
05/02/2010 16:02:03
" Why this obsession for knowing the exact speed?"
 
  Cos it's a new talking point now that the gloss has worn off carbides and DRO's, mate.
 
   Regards Ian.
 
   SORRY, I missed the comma. But I soppose a DRO's mate is a collet set??
05/02/2010 13:03:18
" Why this obsession for knowing the exact speed?"
 
  Cos it's a new talking point now that the gloss has worn off carbides and DRO's mate.
 
   Regards Ian.
Thread: Boring Question
04/02/2010 14:43:40
NEVER feel  embarassed about asking questions Chris, within three answers you can have very easily about a hundred years of combined experience. The answers are not always the same but neither are they ALWAYS contradictory, they may even answer questions you didn't know you asked, but it's a bit like Woolworths used to be, pick and mix, YOUR choice.
 
   Regards  Ian.
Thread: How about a section on material sources
04/02/2010 11:13:13
One of the problems in trying to start this type of thread is one of location. When you add postage to some of the raw material costs, you sometimes seem to need to take out a second mortgage. Having dealt for a number of years in "Full size " ingineering, when looking at freezebay prices one can only wonder if anyone actually slashes their wrists and buys at these prices??
 
  If yer can't get into your local material scrap yard, check at Garages for dead bearings and lumps of bar (Ex steering racks, drive shafts etc. etc.) Get the Yelling pages out and have a scan for local manufacturing engineering firms (Yes, there are still one or two left), Manufacturing plastic window/door firms have offcuts of alumininininum extrusions in both HE9 (Crap) and HE30 (Good).
 
  Just takes a bit of lateral thinking.
 
   Regards  Ian.
Thread: Boring Question
04/02/2010 10:56:30
Learn how to grind tool steel and chuck the carbides Chris. Use largest boring bar you can fit. "Sharp" carbides are a contradiction.
 
   Regards  Ian.
Thread: Tightening collets
02/02/2010 10:15:17
Trying to clamp too small dia.??  Worn bore??
 
  Collets seem to have taken over as the universal "must have" clamping system, (bit like DRO's make super machinists) The clamping "Range" is a misnomer, as the collet can only Truely grip its "Bored" diameter and the only near universal collet is the "Rubberflex" (No affiliation).
 
   Regards   Ian
 
 
Thread: B & Q Steel stock
02/02/2010 10:05:37
Don't seem to be able to find raw steel stock on the last posting, can you aim me to the section????
 
   Regards   Ian
Thread: drilling holes in axleboxes
01/02/2010 11:03:51
Are the cutouts in the frames true and square?? If so, why not the 4 jaw?? DON'T make the holes too tight, the loco will bind on corners.
 
  Regards  Ian
Thread: Is it worth the money
01/02/2010 10:57:50
"Send Three and Fourpence"???
 
  One can only comment when BOTH sides of the argument are heard. My IMMEDIATE reaction and reply are STILL valid.
 
   Regards  Ian.
Thread: Old lathe, chuck accuracy
31/01/2010 18:49:00
No agopolies required Mark, just trying to stop you falling into the three jaw trap that most starters do, as SC has said, if you havea four jaw stick with that one.
 
  Regards  Ian.
Thread: Digital editions of Model Engineer and Model Engineers' Workshop.
31/01/2010 10:38:31
To be hoped that you got someone who knows what they're doing for that one David given the hassle that has gone on with the MEW.
 
  I recind my requests for a price for CD/DVD copies and will have a scout round for original copies and scan me own to electronic/plastic copies.
 
  Regards  Ian.
Thread: Old lathe, chuck accuracy
31/01/2010 08:34:41
Re-read what I wrote Mark, I didn't say Wrong, many roads to Rome, but for accuracy, forget the three jaw. It only takes a rism of swarf on the teeth of one jaw and you are tearing your hair out trying to chase the ellusive thous. of eccentricity. You can use one to turn true, but note the limitations, just don't try to turn press fit registers for wheels on axles that are 3/8" dia. using 3/8" dia. bar as a starting point which you COULD using the other three options I showed.
 
      Regards  Ian.
Thread: N.A. Subscriptions in Disarray
30/01/2010 08:13:49
Don't know if it's just MY interpetation of this thread but what have newbie machineing questions to do with the distribution problems in North America??? Perhaps something in beginers questions would give a wider response??
 
   Regards, confused.
29/01/2010 11:03:23
"Six munce ago i cutnt even spell ingineer an now i are one"

Edited By Circlip on 29/01/2010 11:03:42

Thread: Is it worth the money
27/01/2010 12:18:38
Bit more room on your backhead Jason, and without criticising Helen in ANY way, if you look down the left hand seam, there look to be a couple of areas which exhibit the same "Fault".but at least show penetration. A good Silver Soldered joint is NOT one that shows excessive CAULKING like the old time Leaded joints.
 
  Followed Helens carreer in boiler making and as far as quality, she's one of "THE MEN" to go to for a boiler. To the point where a collegue returned back to Australia, one allegedly made to the allmighty AMBSC code and obtained one from Western with glowing reports.  He lived a few miles away. in MALAYSIA.
 
 As far as the piccies go Anthony, all the info is there to be verified, CE is a load of cobblers, but all the others are TRACEABLE. Trust there's a CURRENT test cert with it??
 
   Regards  Ian
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