Member postings for ega

KWIL:

I second that.

edintheclouds:

Thank you for the link to M-Machine. I have saved it specially because, given the very general title of this thread I doubt if I would find it again once it has become buried.

richard 2:

Just in case you run into any pedants, 3mm BMS is properly "sheet" I believe rather than plate.

That's a rather subtle and interesting point.

Speaking for myself, I am not above giving a tool a tap with a hide hammer to seat it in the taper.

There is a difference here between the manufacturer's and the user's viewpoints. To quote Messrs Easterbrook, Allcard & Co Ltd (the Presto people):

"The tang is for ejection purposes only. Allowing torque to be taken by the tang will result in breakage."

If the taper slips so as to let this happen the taper socket is also likely to be damaged so it seems dubious to rely on the tang.

No doubt many remember the square taper drills which seemed to combine the merits of both ideas.

Ian S C:

As you describe them they do sound a bit agricultural!

Good to know you got some value out of them.

Bandersnatch:

"Starrett sell a small bottle of oil particularly for this type of application."

Thanks for the suggestion - now to find a UK supplier.

Ian S C:

GHT made a similar comment about a forged tool which he likened to Harry Lauder's walking stick!

In defence of Eclipse, however, didn't those "unpolished" boring bars have a ground flat on the underside and ground cutting edges? I feel they would have been of some use in the *right* hole; three boring bars seems much too few for the average worker.

That said, I'm all in favour of shop-made tools.

Michael Gilligan:

"It's one of the little luxuries of using an iPad"

Thanks for the tip, which I will mention to an Apple-owning friend. The standard auto-repeat feature seems peculiarly useless and this seems like a much better use for key hold-down whether real or virtual. I don't use my Android tablet for visiting the site but am going to check whether its virtual keyboard has a comparable feature.

Irony - more likely spheroidal!

BERT ASHTON:

Thanks for the photo - impressive! And particularly the retracting topslide.

I did make the HDA many years ago and rather than cut into the speed plate winkled out those little drive pins and moved the plate to the inside of the belt cover.

John Rudd:

Mine came from Axminster.

Ignatz Fellinato:

I'm glad you got your answer and my apologies for missing that you had already dealt with the flange in cap/nut point in your OP.

Rather like other posters, most-used has to be the GHT indexing four-way toolpost on the Myford.

BERT ASHTON:

Is the toolpost in your repertoire and are you by any chance the man who displayed a comprehensive collection of GHT designs at an ME exhibition some years ago?

Ignatz Fellinato:

A beautiful tool but unlike any ER holder I have seen (I am no expert and generally make my own).

In the absence of a public profile I have no idea where you are but there may be someone who will lend you an ER16 collet. Failing that, the cheap ones are very cheap to buy (!) and if bought on amazon, for example, can be sent back if unsuitable.

ER collet caps have a distinctive flange for extracting the collet after use which I don't see on yours.

james Schutte:

Your post rang a bell with me because I had this book as a child, lost my copy and much later was able to pick one up for 50p. My copy is stated to be an "ENTIRELY NEW EDITION" but it does contain the slot machine and X-ray camera. No publication date that I can see but produced to the prevailing economy standards.

Good luck in your search.

The Handy Boy's Book by John Barnard pub Ward Lock

Michael Gilligan:

Yes, puns before pedantry any day. But can you please share the secret of inserting special characters like that e acute?

Peter G. Shaw:

Good luck with the search function. A search on "Teletubbies" just came up with nothing!

Michael Gilligan:

Isn't that "point of order" a point of information?

Where's that nice Mr Bercow when you need him?

Edited By ega on 14/11/2015 11:02:38

David Clark 1:

Great minds think alike - and greater ones are quicker to express themselves!

Neil Wyatt:

I wonder if it would help if thread starters tried to make their titles as informative as possible so that those who are definitely not interested in the main topic can readily choose to ignore them.

I am not going to give examples as I have no wish to appear to criticise individual members but there have been some very vague and unhelpful titles (and some models of clarity).