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Thread: Ditties to accompany tasks in the workshop
26/03/2022 08:19:01
Posted by Bazyle on 25/03/2022 22:25:36:

"If I had a hammer" by Pete Seeger

Well everyday is a school day, I would have guessed Trini Lopez for that one but I see Pete Seeger wrote it in 1949, somewhat before the Trini Lopez hit in the 60’s

Mike

Thread: Is this 3 phase motor suitable for delta/VFD?
25/03/2022 16:17:51

I doubt that any machine in the home workshop will have a motor large enough to be wound for 415v in Delta but large motors probably in excess of 7.5hp could well be wound for 415v in delta and 690v in star. A motor large enough to to benefit from star-delta starting will be wound for 415v in delta. At work we used some hoist motors that were on the cusp of being wound for being 415v or 230v in delta, as we ran them on a VFD then it was important to check the motor plate and set the VFD to match. These days it is likely that a small motor will be wound for 415v in star but it is not a certainty.
Mike

Thread: Finding things
25/03/2022 15:04:27

I lost my motorcycle keys at work, phoned wife to bring spare keys, found keys in pocket that I never use. Another occasion lost keys again, wife had a housefull of kids so could not leave, I said I would start walking and would meet when she was free, I had walked 5 miles plus and turned down a lift before we finally caught up with each other.

Mike

Thread: DRO----How accurate
22/03/2022 22:41:17

I am not quite clear as to what the issue is that you are describing but a DRO should be attached so it measures the actual quill movement and unless their is a serious problem with the spindle bearings it should represent the cutter position. If the mill is a knee type mill then it is possible to have a scale measuring the knee movement and a scale measuring the quill movement, a summing module can be used to give the true position of the cutter in Z whether you move the quill or the knee. The same method applies even if the table is fixed and Z movement is effected by moving the head or the quill. I think most people will lock the quill for normal milling operations for maximising rigidity. For drilling it can be simpler to use the quill or boring work with the head at an angle will mean using the quill.

Mike

Thread: Searching for a good quality, metric-only, 300mm steel ruler
22/03/2022 18:00:05

**LINK**
This thread covered much ground with regard to the perfect rule, it may be worth looking at the suppliers mentioned in the thread.

Mike

22/03/2022 11:52:39

As you mention a requirement that you will use as a cutting straight edge I would seriously consider a proper cutting rule, I had probably used a standard rule hundreds of times as a cutting guide until the day came that I had a couple of rashers of my finger tips on my cutting blade rather than on my fingers, no great harm done but it bled well and was sore for a couple of days.

Mike

21/03/2022 22:20:02

**LINK**

workshop heaven have these but 300mm is out of stock.

Mike

Thread: Looting
20/03/2022 16:19:20
Posted by Georgineer on 19/03/2022 12:39:45:

It sounds like the stuff my father used when he was a dockyard apprentice in the 1920s. They used to roll it into little balls and fire it at each other through bits of pipe. Apparently there was a neighbouring house with a roof window visible over the dockyard wall. When the window was open the challenge was to fire a pellet through the opening. Dad wondered if the occupants ever worked out where the little black pellets came from.

George

The first electricians shack I worked in as an apprentice overlooked the lorry’s waiting to be unloaded into the press shop steel stores, one of the electricians had a Tufnol tube blowpipe and the production floor had a ready supply of mastic materials for ammunition, the drivers sat in their cabs waiting to be unloaded made an irresistible target.

Mike

Thread: Thread-cutting oil
19/03/2022 17:32:13

Tallow was the regular cutting lube for steel conduit when I did a spell on the wiring gang as an apprentice. Trefolex is my favourite and I probably have enough for a good few years supply.

Mike

Thread: FAULTY DRILL BITS !
19/03/2022 08:45:50

I am rather surprised that people have had bad experience with Dormer drills, I have various sets of Dormer drills and hundreds of loose ones and really can’t remember a dud among all of them. Being a top brand they will be first in line for the fake brigade to copy. Hopefully major suppliers will source them from the proper sources and should be the genuine item.

Mike

Thread: Sieg SC3-400 upgrade progress
17/03/2022 16:36:24

Nothing removed by me.

Mike

Thread: Hermes and couriers
17/03/2022 11:40:38

Our local man is obviously a good guy, my neighbour has asked Hermes to leave parcels obscured by a shrub but if it is raining or half term when the kids are around he knocks to ask me if I mind accepting the parcel for them, I am happy to do so and my neighbours reciprocate on the odd occasion when they are in and I am out. It works well for us but some friends accepted a bicycle for their neighbour who turned out to be away for two weeks so they were stuck with a bicycle and nowhere to store it.

Mike

Thread: Loco lighting brackets
13/03/2022 10:55:29

The brackets on the tender were the same orientation, perhaps the different rail companies had different systems, from the bit I read about the lamp code it was not a universal standard. I suppose it would have been standardised after nationalisation. I am only a lightweight steam fan I know very little but find much of interest.

Mike

13/03/2022 09:51:25

3da04538-a1e1-4011-a219-2554d593c6c2.jpegYesterday we were on a shopping trip to the Swindon Outlet complex in the old rail works, the Steam museum is next door and well worth a visit but this Loco is in the shopping centre. As shopping is one of my pet hates I amused myself by examining the old machinery that is dotted round the centre. While looking at Ditchead Manor I noticed the three brackets on the black deck area and a similar arrangement on the rear of the tender, I expect everyone knows they are lamp brackets but it didn’t occur to me so a quick Google soon found the brackets with lamps installed, a bit more digging and I discovered that the lamps are installed in different patterns depending on the loco function. Everyday is a school day.

Mike

Edited By Mike Poole on 13/03/2022 10:56:42

Thread: How Many People Does it Take to Change a Lightbulb on the Forum?
11/03/2022 21:32:40
Posted by JasonB on 11/03/2022 16:35:50:
Posted by Mike Poole on 11/03/2022 16:31:31:

I assume we are actually discussing the changing of a lamp

Mike

So you are one of the 15 mentioned in Jimmy's post half way down the first pagewink

Also hope it's been changed by now

Well I did a speed read of the thread and missed that one, as an apprentice electrician it was often brought up that lightbulbs are lamps. I hold my hand up as one of the lamp lightbulb pedants but only for the fun value.laugh

Mike

Thread: Is this distasteful
11/03/2022 21:18:14

I just purchased some dessert spoons from Viners, the box had a big label that declared bladed item and check age of recipient. I knew one chap who kept his tea spoon in his breast pocket of his boiler suit, a six inch rule seemed to be good enough for many.

Mike

Edited By Mike Poole on 11/03/2022 22:58:17

Thread: How Many People Does it Take to Change a Lightbulb on the Forum?
11/03/2022 16:31:31

I assume we are actually discussing the changing of a lamp

Mike

Thread: Model Engineers Handbook
11/03/2022 15:14:45

All the teachers at my school were degree men from the best universities except for our metalwork teacher whose entry in the school list was simply his name. He was an inspirational teacher and was probably alone in actually having worked outside of the education system. At tech we had a lecturer who had worked in industry and then taken a post as lecturer at the tech college, he was far and away one of the most interesting teachers of electronics I have encountered as relating what you are learning to the real world gives the knowledge you are trying to absorb a purpose. I always found it amazing when something I had learned cropped up in a real job and sometimes in the most unexpected places, the saturable reactor turning up in a tig welder was a surprise and it took a while for the penny to drop as the sketchy drawing and pamphlet that was the manual did not remotely describe the machine. Much of what I have learned has eventually been useful but some of it just never has, I am not dead yet so there is still time.

Mike

Thread: How useful is high 5000rpm spindle speed in a mill
07/03/2022 15:03:47

I would remount the scale so that gravity is on my side rather than working against me, a stray chip could destroy the scale as they are usually glass and once broken or even damaged it will be game over. When I was a sparky in a tool room you had to wonder how swarf got to the places it finds, but almost nowhere was safe.

Mike

Edited By Mike Poole on 07/03/2022 15:04:19

Thread: Micrometers
07/03/2022 14:23:17

There are some very lightly used and carefully kept bargains on eBay of the big named makers and this is where I have purchased most of my collection. I have over the years bought digital versions in addition but I do overall prefer the purely mechanical version. Dasqua look to be quite nicely made but a picture doesn’t tell the whole story. I think I would test the water and buy one and see what it’s like before committing to a selection. The prices are pretty reasonable if you have to put the purchase down to experience.

Mike

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