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look on ebay i managed to buy all volumes as far back as 1936. price ranges from £0.99 upwards. bought many at £0.99 and paid £8 postage.

i use a Wickes. bought it on special offer only £29. I would not waste my money on a Henry. I bought two and they are overpriced just like Dyson. when i inspected the dead Henry i found the motor to be of poor quality. that was the failure on both of them. meanwhile the wickes is fine

Steve. ... I too have had my kitchen rewired recently and the electrician also fitted the socket for the washer under the worktop. saves having to drill holes for the plug lead. but he also fitted a 20A+neon switch above the worktop for isolation. so your electrician is incorrect and needs to return and correct his work.

fizzy. you need to calculate the volt drop in the cable to the workshop based on max current & distance from the source.

http://www.calculator.net/voltage-drop-calculator.html

spare parts list but i doubt if they are available now

Some time back I found a shaper on a well known website reasonably priced and I had to collect it from a shed in the Forest of Dean. It had been stored for a long time. Once all the rust and debri had been removed I cleaned it up and gave it a paint job. Light Grey was all I had at the time. the only thing lacking is a good solid metal table to hold it down. It also came with the original instruction book and spare parts manual. with a little research it turned out to be built around 1941 and still as good today as when it was built

there are a lot of projects around in the "Arduino" Community and it is all open source. many output boards can be fitted and expanded

http://playground.arduino.cc/Projects/Ideas

https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_1_11?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=arduino+cnc&sprefix=arduino+cnc%2Caps%2C205&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Aarduino+cnc

Edited By its-smee on 13/09/2016 09:23:09

£100 seems about the going price for brass of that dia. i usually by from Metals4u and most of their prices are reasonable. https://www.metals4u.co.uk/brass/round/38.1mm-(1.12)/p79

I used one of these many years ago and it worked well but there are a lot of variations out there. the switch is manual . each time you press the button it swaps printer.  you can get automatic versions but at greater cost

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Microconnect-UB-21P-Manual-Switch-Warranty/dp/B002H9T1J8

Edited By its-smee on 14/03/2016 08:14:48

Neil. if you look at my previous post they assumed the earth was spherical and as the earth is not, this screwed up their calculations and as a result the metre is 0.1mm out

The original Metre Bar was made of copper in 1793 which measured 443.44 Lignes in old Paris units. ( you can see why they changed. ) it was changed later to a bar of 90% Platinum / 10% Iridium but now is determined by the wave length of light in the Krypton 86 atom. The metre is now the distance travelled in 1/299,792,458 seconds. I think I will stick to ft & ins. it is easier

quote from the book

"Some talk of millimeters,and some of kilogrammes.

And some of decilitres to measure beer and drams.

But I'm a British workman, too old to go to school.

So by pounds I'll eat, and by quarts I'll drink, and

I'll work by my three foot rule."

Chris.

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   I purchased my 3d printer 12 months ago and have made many small items. As an exercise to learn 3D modeling i made and printed a "Doxford" marine engine from photographs and sectional drawings. Because of this i was able to produce functional drawings to make one in Aluminium. I decided to scale up slightly and go for a 4cyl version.It may not look much and quality is not exhibition standard, but I am also learning how to use my WM16 mill at the same time.

Edited By its-smee on 07/01/2016 12:46:20

While using my WM16 mill there was a smell of burning coming from the motor housing. When I removed the motor cover the motor was cool and nothing detectable. But within about 20 seconds after switching on smoke started to come from the motor itself. As mentioned elsewhere on this forum I connected a 100w bulb to the drive and all appeared fine , no "flicker" detectable. But when I put my multi-meter on the connections I had DC voltage with a large AC component. 55VDC/82VAC After speaking to Warco and explained the situation they did not question if I was correct, and sent replacement parts FOC without argument or fuss. I made the call on Monday 21st Dec and gave up all hope of getting anything this side of Xmas, imagine my surprise when they turned up today Wednesday 23rd... To quote David from Cambridge " the motto of this story is that for anyone contemplating buying a new lathe or mill, Warco will look after you."

I too have a WM250 lathe and WM16 mill. I did consider their smaller brothers, because of my limited workshop space. I am pleased and content with my choice of machines, but also very glad that I did not buy smaller versions. Another factor to consider is the weight and headroom. I would have liked the larger version but after having struggled to get my lathe on it's stand I purchased a folding engine hoist to do the lifting. but If you have room, and can lift it, the larger machine may be attractive. But as I say, I am happy with the WM16.

the maths lecturer at college many years ago used to say " as you all know or should know " every single lesson. it used to drive me nuts

I too have a Warco VM 16 mill and bought the arceuotrade DRO mainly on price but would like to upgrade later. I followed mechmans48 instructions which with the photographs made installation straight forward. I mounted the display on a plate clamped to the horizontal bar beneath the control box. ( in the photo it shows the unit upside down and has been changed to the correct way) the rear back splash is also a copy of mechmans but in plastic. I have since added removable side panels

I had a number of bottles of Worcester Sauce that were three years past their use by date. I was just about to throw them out when there was a programme on TV about Worcester Sauce and the presenter was drinking sauce that was 100 years old. He made the statement " the older the better" t he BB dates were imposed on Lea & Perrins by the bureaucrats in gov't. needless to say they never went in the bin and tasted delicious

there are a number available from Amazon if it is the same book by John Barnard all used