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The link for the Swing Clear Rear Toolpost on the Free Plan Collection Page seems to be screwed up.

Unlike the link for the Rotary Table - which leads to another page listing the pdf's for the various pages - this one leads directly to the pdf for page-8 (only) of the plan.

I dumped ExpressMag several years ago because I refused to pay a significantly higher price than anyone else in the world because I live in Canada. For the last few years I've been managing on a digital-only subscription which is about to expire - and I won't renew it because of the recent enormous price hike for that.

If the print copy subscription is going back to MTM I can only say Hallelujah! And if its ROW prices I might even be tempted again.

KBC have various kinds of Teco T-slot bolts that are not bad.

Edit: Ooops ... sorry John, I thought you were in Canada - must be thinking of another John. I'll leave the link though for anyone that's interested.

Edited By OMG on 28/03/2014 16:07:53

Such as Rulers?

Only true if the stud doesn't contact the bottom of the slot. If it does, the jacking force can push everything (stud, T-nut, ear and clamped part) upwards breaking the ear in the process.

Going round in circles here.

So it should be - ending a sentence with a preposition is a grammatical error up with which I will not put.

Jigsaw with metal cutting blade and clamped-on guide?

Lots of good ideas but, for the sake of completeness, don't overlook the possibility of paying someone else to do the job. I needed to get my WM16 lookalike through the house, down the basement steps (with right angle bend) and through the basement to my shop. For health reasons I couldn't get physically involved.

I found a couple of guys who did all that (plus picking up the mill & stand from the dealer's) and waited for me to set up the stand and lifted the mill up. All for a little over $200.

Edited By OMG on 27/03/2014 00:28:03

Hi Les,

Would there be enough room for one of the tiny audio coaxial jacks? You could then wire the (external) plug to act as a shorting (or non-shorting) bar.

I don't think it's that bad, Les. On this side of the pond, a quick look showed a fair number of small, glass NC reed switches available (and in stock) from DigiKey and Mouser........ Newark/Farnell/Element-14 (whatever they go by this week) also purport to sell them but their link to that page is broken.

I'm sure the situation must be similar in Europe.

(I just took a quick look at Farnell UK. As you say, NC reed switches don't seem to be a big thing. However they do have several styles of CO glass reed switches which would do)

Edited By OMG on 24/03/2014 21:39:11

How about a tiny reed switch and then make a simple pouch/stand for it (sort of a rectangular cup) for it to fit into when not in use with inbuilt magnet to turn off the switch?

Is there room for such a switch? You might even be able to make a simple clip containing the magnet.

if that's your example of the benefits of online documentation, Billy, your brain must be wired a whole lot differently to mine. Typically the documentation for those things (e.g. RepRap) is contained in Wikis comprised of a massive tree of hypertext links spreading over half the internet.

At one point when I was looking at a 3D printer I found I had almost 30 browser tabs open and I'd managed to get hopelessly lost.

If they've been subscribing for some time or if they take the digital edition, perhaps, while they're waiting, they could read/re-read the two lengthy and voluminous beginners' series that immediately preceded this latest effort:

- Engineering for Beginners: 20 parts MEW182-202

- Everyday Engineering for the Absolute Beginner: 16 parts MEW193-208

These two, seemingly interminable (the first is apparently still unfinished), series even overlapped for a good portion of their run. It's not clear to me why we need yet another series in apparently the same vein following directly on their heels.

I get a sense that beginners' series have reached the level of "political correctness" now.

Edited By OMG on 11/03/2014 23:58:03

Well, I for one understand what the OP was getting at. The 'logic' is obvious but the humour .... apparently less so.

In some cases that's still true.... even if the packaging is a bubble-pack

I have a decent quality one of these .... best thing since sliced bread - wouldn't be without it.

I always use this like a microscope (that is, I put my eye up close to the magnifier) and it works well like that. I decided to buy a second one and chose the cheaper version that was available (not marked but likely Asian manufacture). This didn't seem to work at all.

The guy at the store said I was using it wrong, that I should stand back and look down through it from several inches or a foot away. He said that's how all these devices are used and that I was actually using even my good one incorrectly. While his method does seem to work, after a fashion, with his cheaper device, I don't find it particularly easy with either model and certainly not as good as my way with my good model. There is a much narrower field of view for one thing.

How do other people use these.

Edited By OMG on 05/03/2014 15:48:54

Can you actually fit a 6" chuck to an ML7? Unless it's very short I would have thought the jaws would strike the bed if they are opened very much (and if you can't open the jaws wide, is there any point in using a chuck that big?).

Do you have an independent pdf printer (e.g. Bullzip) installed? In which case you can ignore the one built into TC and just do a normal print to the pdf printer.

(Arguably, a separate program whose whole raison-d'être is for making pdfs is likely to be better anyway than a built-in).

Yes, thank you Jason .... back to normal now.

Oliver

It's very similar to some of the debates I remember about digital cameras when they were in their infancy. One thing was "sure" at that time - they wouldn't replace photographic film in anyone's lifetime.