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Thread: Downloading Digital issues to personal computer
21/01/2014 00:47:15

Venting at and making demands of the moderators is misdirected and a waste of your time David. The moderators are simply unpaid volunteers drawn from the rest of us members here and have nothing to do with the magazine management. You may as well berate your cat.

As for the rest of your post, it comes across to me as rabid and entirely irrelevant. What on earth has the North American telephone market and your Linux prowess to do with getting the refund that you feel you deserve for your digital subscription? If there's any connection it certainly escapes me.

Edited By OMG on 21/01/2014 00:48:30

Thread: MT v R8
20/01/2014 22:22:15
Posted by Michael Poole on 20/01/2014 21:46:29:

My personal choice on a Warco VMC was R8 and an ER chuck, I also have an R8 shank flycutter and an R8 shank boring head. This is not usable on my Myford lathe which is MT2 but I accepted that when I made my decision to go R8. The ER collets I use on both machines which is useful but I had to make or buy an ER chuck for the lathe.

I have a very similar setup but my mill started life as MT2. I got fed-up with that and converted to R8 which I'm much happier with. My left-over MT2 tooling I use on my ML7 one of which is an MT2 collet chuck which can be very handy in the tailstock .... I have collet chucks for the spindle that screw directly on to the nose.

[ I recently needed to remove a ballnut from a ballscrew. I made a keeper for the ball nut and held that in the tailstock collet. The ballscrew I held in the spindle collet. Moved the tailstock up to put them in contact and locked it. Unscrewed the ballnut onto the keeper. Easy and no chance of dropping balls. ]

Thread: Long Term Planning for a Workshop Size
20/01/2014 22:03:04
Posted by Paul Atkin on 20/01/2014 15:56:25:

Regarding the pedestal drill, is it strictly necessary

I have a mill/drill (WM16 lookalike). I used to have a bench-drill but rarely used it after I got the mill so I bought a pillar drill instead. I don't use the pillar drill frequently but there are three occasions that I can think of when it's invaluable:

- When I have a setup on the mill that I don't want to disturb but I just have to drill some holes (or whatever) - possibly for another job.

- Unless you have a large mill, there are some jobs that are simply too large for the mill. They would likely be too large for a bench drill too. A pillar drill can accept seriously large (tall) workpieces.

- My pillar drill also has more power and I use it if, say, I want to use a fair-size holesaw to get a big hole fast (and, perhaps, finish by boring). That would blow the cut-out on my mill but the drill will handle it .... and I'm less fussed about getting heavy-handed if necessary on that machine.

In the end, only you can determine the likelihood that you will need the drill depending on what you want to do now and what you may graduate to. My suggestion would be to start without it but keep the money in your back pocket so you can get one in a hurry if it comes to it.

Edited By OMG on 20/01/2014 22:04:50

Thread: Fitting DROs to small mill
19/01/2014 17:38:05
Posted by Howard Winwood on 19/01/2014 08:17:42:

Yes! Because the scales have a remote reading head the sliding part can be vertical ( same on all axis) so does not compromise the travel. You would need to put your table y axis as far back as poss and see what room you have to mount the scale. I would rather lose a bit of travel than not be able to adjust or lock the gibs.

The answer in my case (on my WM16 lookalike) is none at all. I can run the Y-axis back until it crashes into the bracket holding the way-cover (which I've already skinnied down to the bare minimum).

I'm not willing to compromise on Y-axis travel (I'm surprised that anyone would actually). Frequently I want more than I have. So I mounted my (glass, with separate DRO) scales at the front. I extended the gib-screws out past the scale in the same way that Rik shows above so I didn't lose the use of those.

What I have lost is the ability to mount the limit-switch box for my X-axis power feed in its intended location. I haven't figured out a suitable alternative so I run that "open-loop" (is there a smiley for "...gulp! " )

19/01/2014 01:17:35
Posted by Howard Winwood on 18/01/2014 09:37:13:

........ the x axis at the back

Did you manage to do this without reducing the travel in the Y-axis ?

Thread: Workshop Practice Series on eBay: Copyright Infringement?
17/01/2014 15:39:18

£6.95 each (£4.63 each if you buy 3) seems like a decent enough price to me. I don't see it as overcharging.

Thread: 3D Printer On sale in Currys for under £1,200
15/01/2014 01:07:27
Posted by Muzzer on 14/01/2014 20:08:19:

PS - Since this morning, the PDF has been removed for moderation. Hope it returns soon, otherwise I can post a link to a copy on my Google Drive or Skydrive.

 

It's here by the look of it but you need to create a login to get it.

Edited By OMG on 15/01/2014 01:07:49

Thread: Mill refusing to power up
15/01/2014 01:00:01

Posted by Stub Mandrel on 14/01/2014 21:18:50:

...... the other was shorted out by along thread of swarf that reached all the way into the controller box.

Good thing you weren't hanging on to the other end by the sound of it!

Thread: Confused...
13/01/2014 14:25:09
Posted by Michael Gilligan on 13/01/2014 09:31:39:

More detailed answers may be available; but that would require a protracted multi-part series, not an implicit punchline.

rotfl !

13/01/2014 14:23:51
Posted by joegib on 13/01/2014 04:11:54:

Is there a punchline?

OK, the long version:

Amongst other things, you referred to two results of MEW reader surveys and comments:

- MEW readers don't want model-making articles appearing there

- MEW readers don't like protracted multi-part series

.... and yet, the second doesn't seem to have made much difference - which provides a context for judging the first.

13/01/2014 04:00:37
Posted by joegib on 13/01/2014 03:58:47:

Curiously, readership surveys have also shown that MEW readers don't like protracted multi-part series.

And yet ......

12/01/2014 22:26:51
Posted by Doubletop on 12/01/2014 21:13:12:

MEW split from ME with the express intention of providing a separate vehicle for workshop topics and keeping ME to model making.

Where was that "express intention" expressed?

(See my post earlier on this page).

Thread: Downloading Digital issues to personal computer
12/01/2014 16:38:33
Posted by JasonB on 12/01/2014 07:42:15:

You don't have to download one page at a time, if you have a digital subscription you can download any mag you have subscribed to since activating your account.

... but not as a pdf or anything approaching a portable format. Print quality is so-so and the prints contain a watermark that can be very intrusive at times.

Moreover, it's unclear what happens if I stop subscribing and then at a subsequent time (say a couple of years later) replace my computer with a new one. Does PocketMags let me re-download all those old issues (that are no longer on my computer) even though I no longer have an extant subscription? Or did I just lose the lot?

Tried PocketMags when MTM first introduced it. Went back to the online version for the remainder of my subscription. Priced out after that.

Thread: Glass filled nylon 66 granules.
12/01/2014 01:18:21

Call one of the plastics companies who supply material to injection moulders and ask for a small quantity. GE, Borg-Warner (think they are GE anyway these days) or whoever in the UK. Play up that you are editor of MEW and that it relates to an article in the magazine.

Any of the companies I dealt with before I retired would have been happy to oblige .... it's chicken-feed to them.

Thread: Confused...
11/01/2014 18:41:26
Posted by Michael Gilligan on 11/01/2014 15:38:55:

When MEW was launched, I started to buy it regularly; and eventually took a subscription. The logic was that the new magazine was expected to carry all or most of the workshop articles, leaving ME to concentrate on the model-making side of the hobby.

It's interesting to read the editor's (Stan Bray's) comments in the first issue of MEW. I'm not sure that he particularly confirms that view. However, one bit is interesting:

"Unlike its fortnightly parent, Model Engineer, MEW will not be embarking on the publication of long, multi-part series of articles. Instead, we intend to deal with each project on a one-off, start-to-finish basis in each issue, so you won't have to wait for the next instalment to complete a job."

That's gone out of the windows these days so it seems that the mandate of MEW (and presumably ME) - if one exists - is not particularly sacred anyway.

10/01/2014 15:04:20
Posted by CoalBurner on 10/01/2014 14:13:42:

Posted by Michael Gilligan on 10/01/2014 10:18:24:

.....I also know that many of these are not really interested in tool-making.

So you 'KNOW' - factual hard evidence? that ME readers are not really interested in toolmaking??

Interesting the way you tweak the argument in the quote. Michael uses the word "many", you carefully omit it.

Thread: Pocketmags
10/01/2014 01:50:21

digitalis? .... be still my heart smiley

Thread: Ballscrew Root Diameter?
10/01/2014 01:03:39

Anyone know the root diameter for an SFU 1204-3 ballscrew?

Thread: 3D Printer On sale in Currys for under £1,200
08/01/2014 14:52:49
Posted by Andrew Johnston on 05/01/2014 12:06:07:

ProEngineer had a very poor user interface, despite costing both arms and legs.

I still use an old (2001) version of Pro/E and I have to agree - it's pretty user-hostile. You do get used to it in time and your speed goes up. It's very modular and has all the appearance that the modules were programmed by different groups, possibly in different countries, that never actually talked to each other. Not to mention that, in 2001, the Windows version was still weighed down with its Unix legacy and didn't always follow Windows programming standards/conventions.

I have to hope that later versions were/are better. Particularly now there's much more competition.

Edited By OMG on 08/01/2014 15:01:12

Thread: Still no Email notification of bookmarked forum posts.
05/01/2014 17:38:42

I don't have any problem with this. Could your personal settings be affecting it .... i.e. if you have configured to receive no email communications?

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