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Hello Ian.

Once again, I thank you for the information on the Bailey's Bee (pardon me if I made a mistake writing the name of the engine) hot air engine.
Perhaps I'll order M2 plans after recovering from the fire in my workshop.

regards
Dias Costa

Hello Ian.

Thank you for the information on the Bradley hot air pumping engine.
Do you know, by any chance, where or to get plans for such a machine?

regards
Dias Costa

Hello Ian,

Does the Bradley hot air pumping engine you saw is the same referred in this place ***LINK*** ?
It's very elegant.

regards
Dias Costa

Edited By dcosta on 14/06/2013 14:50:29

Hello Michael, good morning.

Thank you for the information. It helps me understand the EMCO history.

Regards
Dias Costa

Hello Michael, good morning.

Please see ***LINK*** on the relation of Elliot Machines with EMCO.
Do you have, by any chance, historic information about this relationship you can share, please?

Besrt regards
Dias Costa

Hello Bob (Packmule).
To create a new line you can use simultaneously the Shift key and the Return Key.
If you use the Return key alone you insert also a new empty line.
If you want to create an empty line just do Shift+Return tywice.


Best regards
Dias Costa

Edited By dcosta on 06/06/2013 18:15:41

Hello Karlas,

I have an Optimum BF20 Vario milling machine and it has worked flawlessly since 2006.
You can find Optimum machines here ***LINK***.
As Andyf says they show in their catalog a picture of their intallations somewhere in Chine.

Best regards
Dias Costa

Hello Allan, good morning.

I think I had the same or similar problem when I first used my HH tool and cutter grinding rest.

Please see ***LINK*** this thread.

Best regards
Dias Costa

Hello all.
I always thought that the wipers have a dual function: as cleaners and as aids in the distribution of lubricant on the bus by a sipping effect. Maybe I'm wrong.
If made ​​of wool instead of some artificial fibbers the sipping effect is achieved more easily because the wool is a hollow fibber and oil, in addition to being supported by the proximity of the fibbers among themselves, also pass through the channels of the fibbers and then be accumulated until it, by gravity, reaches the bed ways.
If the felt is made with materials other than wool or other not hollow fibber, the lubrication effect is poor.

Best regards
Dias Costa

Hello Rick.

The image in the Warco site explicitly calls it "Captive self ejecting drawbar".
In my damaged Optimum BF20 Vario milling machine (which I think is fundamentally the same machine as WM-16) the draw bar had both roles. I never used the hammer to remove the MT2.
I'm expecting the same or similar functionality in the Warco WM-16.

Best regards
Dias Costa

Hello Sid, Good morning!

Please look at this video ***LINK*** . Mainly just after the second minute.
If you search for more information about BF20 type of milling machine, please consider include the Grizzly G0704. There's a site ***LINK*** with some interesting information about mailling machines of the WM-16 type you may be interested in ***LINK***.


Best regards
Dias Costa

Edited By dcosta on 17/05/2013 10:03:34

Hello Mark P.

At the moment I have an Compact 8 lathe and a BF20 Vario Optimum milling machine almost completely covered with a rusty powder.
As I think (and I may well be wrong...) the WM-16 is the same machine as the BF20 Vario.
I'm in the process of ordering from Warco a WM-250V-F lathe and a WM-16 milling machine.

In my experience with the BF20Vario I never found the need to brace up its column.
Can you share with us the reasons to admit the possibility to brace the column of WM-16 milling machine?

Best regards
Dias Costa

Rik,

Yes. It's a good suggestion and I also can go with it. Also as you say I believe it's a good idea to give the thread a special name so the people interested in Warco lathes and milling machines similar to ours may feel invited to participate in the thread. So for the lack of a better name I suggest Warco WM-250V-F&WM-16 as the name to the thread to be created.

regards
Dias Costa

Hello Rick and George,

I'm also in the process of buying a WM-250V-F lathe and a WM-16 milling machine after the fire in my workshop that destroied an Emco Compact8 and a Optimum BF20 milling machine (apart from many other things).

I also would appreciate any information you both keeping us updated and promise I will also share any information on those machines.

Best regards
Dias Costa (in Portugal)

Hello!

Nearly three months late:
To MichaelG: Thanks. Now I already have a new bicycle (a KalkHoff) fitted with a pack of LiIon batteries. I can only hope they behave correctly.
To be true not me neither the assurance company are sure the LiIon batteries were the cause or the effect...

To Neil: Thanks.
I did nothing on the machines until the assurance company decided to replace them. Now that they did so, perhaps I can try something.

To Ian: Thanks.
No it's not smoke. It's brown and there are small pits in some places under the brown powder (this rust is like a powder).

Following the fire in my workshop, two months ago, I am currently looking for a new lathe and a new milling machine.
Previously I had (still have covered in rust ...) a lathe Emco Compact 8 and a milling machine Optimum BF 20 Vario.
My search for substitutes so far produced a lathe Warco WM250V-F and a milling machine Warco WM-16 Variable speed mill, but I'm open to alternative suggestions.
Does anyone can share any thoughts with me and so help me in chose?

Thanks in advance
Dias Costa

Edited By dcosta on 01/05/2013 17:37:02

Good morning John.


You could also do that ***LINK***.

Regards
Dias Costa

Hello Peter.
Using MEW_Indexes with Aciera as query condition on the title I find, other than the article you refer in issue 171, only an ocurrence. The year is 2011, the month is June, the issue is 177, the page is 56, it's a Scribe a line with "Aciera Milling Machine" as title and its author is Mr. Brown.

Hope this helps
Dias Costa

Hello Peter.
You may want to download MEW_Indexes, a complete and free application with strong querying capabilities from ***LINK***.
You may also be interested in the free ME_Indexes from ***LINK***.
Or another free application on miniature modeling ***LINK*** .
The querying capabilities are common to the three applications.

Hope I helped
Dias Costa

Edited By dcosta on 28/03/2013 12:52:58

Hello Norman!

See here, please ***LINK***. The BF20 miiling machine is mainly the same machine you have. I have one and comparing the schematic drawings and pictures I see no differences except in the shape of the motor.

Best regards
Dias Costa

Hello. Good afternoon.

Two days ago in my garage that sits beneath the residential area there was a small fire whose causes I'm not sure. Apparently started in my electric bike and the effect most notorious was the explosion of several cell lithium-ion battery in a package of 84 used on my bike. And it is in the garage which lies my workshop.
Fire fighters used practically no water. The fire produced a large amount of black smoke that much landed on all surfaces inside the garage including the lathe and milling machine. On the recommendation of the fire fighters left the windows open to vent the garage for two days.
Today found that, among others, some surfaces of the lathe and milling developed a thin, brown oxide. However the expert from the insurance company only inspect tomorrow.

Can anyone recommend me some action which could minimize the effect of oxidation on surfaces?

Thanks for any help
Dias Costa