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Graham Meek:

Many thanks for the explanation - no doubt I was a little dense to begin with!

Is "manual control" still available for intermediate settings? My turret is normally loaded with four indexable holders and intermediate positions are not normally needed unless the topslide is set round.

Rod Renshaw:

I understand that "urge" is part of the standard vocabulary of technical writers.

Interesting to me as I am a long-term, happy user of a GHT turret.

I admit that, having read this post and turned up GHT's description, I am not sure about the difference between "self-indexing" and the GHT "simple ratchet" design. Is it simply that with self-indexing moving the locking lever moves the turret as well?

I would certainly welcome a write-up of the adaptation.

GHT wrote up his modifications for the Dore BFH in ME (reprinted in his Workshop Manual).

Neil

Thanks for reviving this. One of your captions made me wonder whether you have started using Dragon Dictate:

"This version is loaded with asset of tools for right hand cutting"

Pursuing my "sprung" query, it seems from the YouTube comments that this one is not spring-loaded. No doubt the significant heat generated is dissipated in the chips/sparks!

Is the centre also sprung so as to take care of the work expanding?

And is there a hobby market for these commercial devices?

An additional supplier link:

solenttools.co.uk

They recently supplied a pair of brushes for my old Wolf Grinderette angle grinder.

This machine is over forty years old and I was impressed to find that they were able to supply against the type number of the machine. They also undertake to make brushes.

Martin Cleeve got round this problem by using a 127 of 30DP: see page 44 of WPS3.

A detent would seem to imply a fixed position of the engaged halfnuts ie no adjustment. Later Myfords have a limit screw to prevent overtight adjustment.

Was he from Rhodesia, by chance?

Thanks for the interesting linked article. I couldn't see any dates in this and wonder if it applied only during the period that a free Win 10 upgrade was available; this has now ended but an upgrade is apparently still possible (for those that want it) via the media creation site that I mentioned.

MS would obviously like all Windows installations to be Win 10.

Interesting point re auto-update; can you give chapter and verse?

Did I waste my time in upgrading to Win 10 via the Microsoft "create media" site?

Edited By ega on 28/09/2019 23:36:59

How about referring a suitable tap or taps to the spindle thread? With everything clean and a light behind it should be possible to ascertain the angle.

Oddly enough, you can also use a comb or paper.

According to their catalogue these "Saw-Tooth Graduations" were "specially introduced for easy reading by students and apprentices".

Nice! I have an el cheapo Tacwise nail gun which is surprisingly good at the price; bought to fix glazing bead round expensive DG units which I didn't want to approach with a hammer.

The old school pin push is really only useful for starting the pin.

Get a pin push?

Some years ago I successfully made some collets from a scrap pre-war Austin Seven half shaft.

Sorry to be obscure. I was referring to the circular patterns shown at the top of the video (I didn't watch the video itself).

They would have looked better as volutes.