Member postings for Lawrie Alush-Jaggs

Hi David

I have previously owned a similar lathe from H&F. I also found screw cutting a little confounding when I first started.

Set the gears up in the head stock according to the chart for the thread pitch you want to cut.

Set the lead screw gears similarly. On the chaser you should see a list which tells you which number/s you can use for a particular thread. From memory when I was cutting a 14x1.25 thread the start numbers were 1 or 8.

Pick a number and engage the lock nuts when that number lines up with the indicator mark on the chaser.

When you reach the end of your cut, note the tool depth on and then retract. Wind the saddle back to your start position, wind the tool in to the next depth and then wait for the same mark to line up and once again engage the half nuts.

Do set the speed as low as possible as it is just easier to catch the end of the thread.

don't make the mistake I made which was to assume that the possible numbers for the chaser mean that you use each one in turn. You start on one number, say 8 and continue using that number until the thread is cut.

Good luck, it is very rewarding when you first cut a thread and the nut fits

Hi

Go the six inch and get one with four slots. I have the Vertex with three slots and find that although the machine itself is very good for the work I do, having three slots is just rubbish.

I wanted to flay the maker with a maggoty cat. Very very difficult to adequately lock down square or rectangular items with only three slots.

Thought of making a new one? I thought that was what we did.........

I also went to a Medical Centre and fixed their computers.

I got out the table saw and made up a stack of edge mouldings for tiles for a house I am working on.

I had an ImpMet event happen to me on Saturday. I had to fill a sump in a lift well with concrete prior to the lift being installed.

After I had whacked about 50 KGs of cement in, I was talking to another bloke of about my age and a younger bloke. I said that it took a bit over a cubic foot of cement. The older bloke noded sagely and the younger asked "How much is that? I don't understand those old foot things, I have to ask people to convert." I don't have a problem with it as I think that Imperial is just about the stupidest system of measurement available (leaving ut the Mesopotamians and their base 60).

The one thing Imperial has going for it over Metric is that just about any Imperial measurement has fewer sylables in it that it's Metric equivalent. Talking Metric sounds like talking Commitee.

One foot is just easier to say than three hundred milimeters or thirty centimeters. Laziness is the one reason I find myself slipping back into Imperial.

Bill, If you are passed retirement now does that mean you are back at work?

Yay Terry, couldn't agree more.

I can get a massive advantage from stiffness.

I thought we were not having Viagra adds here........

Hey Bogs....... Of course one builds a Forth Bridge over a ditch, why else is the ditch there?

Come to think of it, why does this hobby exist if not to overengineer anything at all

Hi Tony

I recently had my nephew over for work experirnce. Not a lot of work on so we started pulling apart about ten years work of accumulated hard disks. There were about two hundred and it took quite a bit of time. At the end we ended up with loads of chassis, some stainless and the platters.

I took them all off the a scrap yard to see what I could get for them and it turned out that we averaged $0.50/hr. A complete waste of time.

The platters are cut from very high purity aluminium, wash ground, sputtered with a cobalt based alloy and then burnished, spanked soundly and sent to bed without supper.

They are a problem like just about anything to do with dead electronic componentry.

Really they are several problems. Firstly they contain loats of useful very high purity minerals.

Secondly, they contain them is such small quantities that they it is not ecconomically feasible to reclaim those minerals.

Thirdly many of the minerals are toxic albeit in the single computer there is little chance of anyone getting sick.

In the 1850's here in Victoria we had a mamoth gold rush and many people from around the world decided to have a go. Included in those people wre many Chinese. The Chinese copped it a bit from the round eyes for all sorts of reasons, not least of which that they were Chinese.

We had riots, something Anglo Saxons are quite good at.

At the heart of the riots which killed many Chinese was the fact that the Chinese were prepared to work harder for smaller reward than the mostly British expats. The Chinese would go through the tailings and mullock heaps after the whitey's had finished with them and pick out the flecks that no-one else could be bothered with. The made some money and got killed.

The three most noticable minerals in a computer are steel, aluminium and gold.

I don't know of any metal recyclers who will take steel and pay you for it in quantities of less than 500kg. Aluminium is broken into several classes according the the amount of other crap there is adhering to it or incorporated within it. Thus you will not be able to convince your local metalo that the aluminium platters from hard drives are really high class items. You will get a reduced price for them. You wont get a decent price for the chassis because of the paint on them.

The stainless steel that makes up the lids has bits of adhesive which will recude their value.

The gold in computers is typically laid on in thicknesses of between 25 and 50 microns. There really sin't much of it and unlike twenty five years ago when it was thicker, it is now not really ecconomically recoverable, even with a gold price of over $1,500.00/oz

So, what do you do with them and all of the rest of the junk in a computer or television?

Currently a very large proportion of it gets kibbled and stuck into land fill. Personally I think that this is wrong. Economics is a very variable thing. Certainly we have not gone back to the days of rag picking or pure collecting but I can see a day not too far off when it will be ecconomically viable to start processing large quantities of kibble for the constituent minerals IF the kibble is readilly accessible. If it is scattered all over land fill, it will not be viable.

Therefore I reckon that it should be stored separately. Still in land fill if that is all we have (not suggesting that it is) but in one easily excavatable hole.

What can we do? I think we should continue to pull things apart prividing doing so means that the components can be stored more easily that way. A printer is mostly space as is a computer but uit turns out that the most space efficient was to store the components, unless you have a kibbler, is to just leave them assembled.

And then just leave then in the Dust Collection Corner until you have sufficient to do something about.

I appologise if this doesn't quite make sense, I am still working it out.

I'm surprised that a lathe has the brains to be curious......

Hullo Ev'ry Bardy!

Here is the simple technical answer to the problem.

If the problem exists in one browser and not another, then the problem is with the browser and not the web site!

Simple eh? Diane and David have nothing to do with it.

Martin does not mention which version of IE he is using which is not terribly helpful. I doubt that he is using IE6x which were dreadful. IE 8 has it's problems. IE 9 seems to be pretty stable and standards compliant which means that there are virtually no problems with it when visiting web sites. That said there are occasion "Issues". Click the compatibility view icon in the address bar, press F5 and see if that fixes it. If not, then go to Tools\Manage Add ons and disable anything not Microsoft (just for testing purposes). See if the problem persists.

Update Java

Update Flash

Update Shockwave

Update Windows.

Have fun and remember what Dr. Johnson said: " sir, I have read your book and it is both good and original. The problem is that the parts that are original are not good and the parts that are good are not original".

Hi John

I was faced with a similar dilema several years ago when building a shed at my old place. Here in Melbourne we have to have fire resistant walls on boundaries which pretty much limits the choices to either brick or corrugated steel.

I would have liked to do brick but didn't have the readies for it so I used timber framing and corrugated steel. I had a paling fence and a breeze block wall to build against so what I did was set the stumps, build the floor right up to the boundary and then put the frame together lying flat on the floor. I then fixed the steel to the fram leaving about 50mm overhang at the bottom so that water would run past the bottom plate-floor joint. Then I got hold of hold a dozen mates and a slab of coldies and just lifted the walls into position. I nailed some braces in place to the floor until I sorted out the corners. That was it.

Because of the shape of it I ended up having to build a curved roof, something I hadn't done to that point. The local council building inspector came and cast a beady over it and gave it his benediction saying that the walls met with the building code requirements.

Lawrie

As a second PS (PPS), there should be no reason why you can't use a remote desktop connection from any show back to a machine in your office which will allow you to use the office computer as though you were there. That will mean that with a cheap inkjet printer at the show, you can enter invoices and print them from the office machine.

This is assuming you are running Windows. It is possible on a MAC too and on Linux though printing will be a bit of a pain with the latter.

(Still) Lawrie Alush-JAggs

Hi Ketan

Nothing to do with me, I'm in Australia and also wont be attending any of the shows at all, let alone Harrowgate.

If the main problem is as you say with your website and stock levels, then you have the wrong accounting package. From what you are saying, it looks as though you are running something like MYOB or Quickbooks which are tied your office network.

Time to move to someting like JIM2 or MYOB EXO or a hosted service. You should be able to go to a show and know exactly what your stock levels are by using a web browser.

Lawrie Alush-Jaggs.

PS although I sell and support MYOB and Quickbooks, I have no connection with them or Happen Business.