Member postings for martin perman

Mark C,

Thats interesting to know, I've been on Lisinopril for 10 plus years but no dry cough yet.

Martin P

At the age of 45 I was diagnosed with type two diabeties and was put on a course of tablets, I also suffered from high blood presure which included more tablets, in 2014/15 I developed a condition called Charcot foot, Diabetic related, which meant eight months off work unable to walk and drive, I lost control of my Diabeties which meant I had to start injecting insulin and today at the age of 66 I now take 13 tablets for various issues and inject three times a day insulin and another drug. you just get into a routine twice a day and remember without them I would be very poorly.

Martin P

My lathe, a MM CL500M, has a mill attached to the headstock making it very top heavy and even though the garrage floor is flat it is lumpy and not smooth so I elected to bolt my down, any leveling and rocking was cured by placing washers under the fixing pads.

Martin P

Gentlemen,

Last night I got directed to another link of the show

**LINK**

Martin P

Ian,

Just been through tomorrows listings, nothing mentioned.

Martin P

Ian,

Just been through tomorrows listings, nothing mentioned.

Martin P

Emgee,

I remember that exhibition, they had a large pond in the hall and my Grandfather had his tug on it, I think it was like a boys own show as it wasnt all engineering.

Martin P

I must agree its a day out with friends and meet others etc but yesterday I was on one stall awaiting my turn whilst the stall owner was talking to another member of the public who asked if the stall owner had had a good weekend, his response was that by the end of the day, Saturday, he would hopefully break even and Sunday he might make a profit. I think that says it all why stall holders are dropping out, the stall I was on was a small one so ramp his costs up to Warco etc except the likes of Warco dont necessarily sell anything to make money because they use exhibitions as show casing their products so the customer can touch and feel their products but there still comes a point when throwing money at exhibitions to increase sales has to stop as the money spent will outway their profits.

Martin P

My friends and I arrived at 9:30 and left at 14:00, I ordered the parts from Transwave to convert my lathe to 3ph motor and VFD, chatted to the Victoria pond club about my Grandfather and spotted a picture of his boat on their lap top, visited JB tools for cutter tips and bought some drills off another stall and enjoyed my 4.5hrs wondering around looking at the models etc

Agree it was quieter from both the public and tools but still a good day out.

Martin P

Tongue in cheek, hence the

a lathe is a lathe is a lathe, the problem lies with the "idiot" using it

Martin P

I and friends shall be making our annual visit tomorrow, we usually use the trains but its a bus replacement service this weekend so we are using my friends car.

Martin P

The ball recycling bearing assemblies and rods are excellent in automation situations particularly in one off robot assemblies especially in clean enviroments but after time the balls will slowly wear several straight grooves in to the guide rods and as good as the seals are will attract muck and accelerate the wear,

Martin P

Neil,

The difference is that you were taught to do a field survey with ranging poles and levels, even though you now use an APP you still appreciate the practical use of the other equipment. When we were all at school we did our multiplication tables until we knew them backwards and us oldies can rapidly work out our maths without thinking, my Daughter when little requested a calculator so I suggested she prove that she could + - / and x manually then I would consider it as how would she know if the answer was correct unless she had an approximation in her head. Theory is only part 1, part 2 comes when you use the knowledge practically.

Martin P

Simon,

Good evening, I live in Bedfordshire and restore petrol Stationary Engines, Listers, I refurbish and make parts for them and any household bits and pieces including Knobs for saucepan lids.

Martin P

Edited By martin perman on 11/01/2020 19:18:11

I started my working life as an engineering apprentice, then a machine tool fitter/electrical fitter, then a Reliability Engineer and finally as a electro mechanical service engineer in machine tools, robotics and industrial washing machine, in Germany I would work for Herr Engineer as he was top dog, in Italy the Engineer was also top dog and below woud be Senior Technician then Technician.

I have spent my whole working life with my hands and worked with virtually every area of engineering, in that time I never met an engineer with a degree that knew what he was talking about, they were so clever they were thick, they couldnt see the wood for the tree's and wouldnt know how to use tools. There was one exception and the big difference was that he worked like me with his hands then did a degree in engineering so he could match the theory with practice.

Martin P

As a left handed person, cromwell tools surely are taking the mick, what is the not obvious difference.

Martin P

For most of my working life I've had the use of a transit sized company van, service engineer, and with it I moved both my lathe, a Machine Mart CL500M and a largish round column Mill\Drill, and a mandraulic engine hoist. In both cases they were loaded into the van with a forklift but when I got them home I unloaded them with the hoist and lifted them onto their stands by myself, I did not dismantle the lathe and found the C of G for lifting by moving the traverse and tailstock to balance it and the mill had its head lowered to its lowest position to make it easier to handle, I now have a a large estate but would never put either inside for fear of damaging the car interior and I certainly would not use the tie down points as they are not rated to retain either of my machines, my means of moving them now would be my twin axle trailer.

When tieing down do not place a strap of the bed as the lathe will still be able to slide, use two straps at each end so that it cant move at all, four point anchorage.

Martin P