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I'm asking the ME collective for a recommendation as my searches haven't found anything I would trust.

A casualty of my workshop move was my donated wall mounted storage unit, that contained taps, dies, reamers, screws etc, weighed a ton when fully loaded and was just about big enough. The plastic drawers have started to crack with age and being overloaded.

So, I am after a suitable replacement. I would like to have around 28 drawers of 4"x3"x6" and be wall mounted. My previous one was a sheet metal unit but I'm open to suggestions.

Thanks all, Rob.

So, can you silver solder two steel parts together, one case hardened and one soft, without destroying the case on the first part? I am creating half of a thrust race and need to solder a shaped arm to the outer diameter. There is no other way of joining the two.

Any idea? Rob.

A scale car or motorcycle. It would need / have every type of engineering discipline available associated to it. Castings/sheet metal work/ casting rubber/ electronics....

May I suggest a half scale motorcycle......not biassed or anything...

Rob.

You sir need to clean your lathe before taking photographs - it gives the impression that people actually do stuff instead of moaning

 In the age of the risk assessment and 'who can i sue' it is going to become increasingly common as the ex-industrialist (because let’s face it, children from school have no experience now) becomes the normal geographic within our hobby and demands 'best practice only' to be published without criticism. 

We have to face it, people in our hobby are limited by materials, equipment, space, and sometimes experience.  We are not taking massive cuts, swarf hitting the wall across the room etc. but can sometimes take hours boring a hole, taking minute cuts that would make a professional machinist blush because that’s what our machines can handle.  

 A good friend of mine started in this hobby with a single book by LBSC.  It contained phrases such as 'chuck it in the lathe' and other rather non-descript instructions.  Now, what do you do? Throw the job at the machine? probably not.  Common sense prevails and after placing the job in the chuck with plenty sticking out  you move onto the next sparse instruction only to find that you have too much sticking out and the job chatters or worse, you have a prang and bend the bar.  So, you move the work piece closer to the jaws and continue trial and error style.  How exactly did these people survive with so little precise, distinct instructions?  Maybe they didn't.  Maybe that’s why 90% of people at exhibitions have white hair?

 Photographs within articles say more than words ever could, but should not be taken as 'the way to do it' instead should be seen as the way the author has done then due to his circumstances and equipment.  

 A quick warning about double sided tape.  My windowsill is my graveyard of projects.  Where prangs, mistakes etc. go to reside for the rest of their lives.  On that sill are two disks which were held together and the diameter machined.  They are still stuck together after 6 years.  Tis good stuff. 

Rob

Edited By Rob Manley on 05/08/2010 16:56:59

Edited By Rob Manley on 15/05/2010 14:38:19