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Hi David,

A big thank you for your efforts over the years, in making both mags what they are today. Have seen many changes to MEW since I bought 1st issue and constant improvement. Have taken ME since June 1961 and it has varied in quality quite a lot but is now very much better. Very well done! Good luck in your new direction.

Hi Diane,

Wish you much success in your new position. Good luck in your new role.

John

Neil,

I still have an old relative`s watch-making bench. It has a small fence around the edges to stop items taking a run for it. I have copied this for another workshop bench.

Happy New Year to you and the rest of the forum members.

John

Hi Johan,

There are 2 similar toolrests advertised on Axminster Tools site, one is their own brand and a similar one by Veritas, who I believe to be a Canadian tool manufacturer. Try ref nos. 600303 and 600320. The design appears to be very simple and I have started to make a copy for my own use.

I have made a different lathe tool holder for grinding according to Martin Cleeve`s book, Workshop Practice Series No. 3, Screwcutting in the lathe. I think this simple device was described in Model Engineer, possibly 1960`s? I have used it quite a bit and found it very good. It will though, only do lathe tools, flycutters maybe small shaper tools, since they are all of a basic shape. I have the Tinker device in course of construction but progress very slow at the moment.

Rgds, John.

I obtained a real, small CI surface plate, £10. May I suggest that anyone using thick glass obtains a piece of felt to go under it? Probably cheaper than baize and just as good.

Hi Mark, Pressure of what? Air, Water, Steam? If its steam, forget it - they don`t like each other!

John

Jarek,

Hope this might help -

i.e. = Latin abbreviation for id est, English = that is.

e.g. = Latin abbreviation, English = for example.

IMHO = modern computer abbreviation = In My Honest Opinion.

The two Latin abbreviations are commonly used.

John

Sorry, forgot to mention sources of ring clamps. Some came from a regular "junk stall" @ last ME exhibition and some came from a stall @ Wiston (Nr. Steyning, Sussex) Traction Engine Rally back in the Summer. Sun actually shone that day.

I went this route:-

1) Purchased some small rubber coated LED torches, the type with an on/off rubber switch on opposite end to LEDs, cheapest found to be £2 only.

2)Purchased some small magnetic stands @ ME exhibitions, I think could have been about £9 but cannot remember with certainty.

3)Purchased some metal clamp rings with a rubber - like coating (good grip). These were about 1/4" or so wide and about 1" I.D., with a small screw hole in the 2 ends.

4)Brass screw + nut to tighten clamp which was already a good close fit on torch body and excess length of screw thread inserted in to magnetic stand clamp and voila!

Two of these contraptions, one each side of mill vice, just perfect. Also one on back end Myford X - slide and on drill. Will be using them on T&C grinders soon.

Guy Lautard wrote an article on modifying a cheap gease gun to a very good oil pumper. I think it was in one of his books on engineering/related topics.

All depends on answers given in Solicitors questionaire. If evey question is answered with, "the Vendor is not aware"(of potential problem referred to), then I very much doubt if anything can bo done unless it can be proved beyond all reasonable doubt that an answer was a deliberate lie intended to deceive.....

May be worth getting hold of a copy of that document and taking legal advice on it, ensuring that said advice is from another Solicitor. Potentially an expensive venture and at the end of the day, someone has to have assets to be worth sueing. Watchout!!

There was considerable discussion sometime ago, in I think, ME on this subject and how to successfully mod. Myfords original oilgun. Guy Lautard came up with what looked like a brilliant solution in one of his books. Myfords eventually had for sale an improved oilgun at what I thought was far too expensive so did not buy.

Seriously, didnt Bill Hughes write a book on TE building? If so, anyone know what the title was?

Tomb is what others will bury you in.

Tome is what you can bury yourself in!

Good idea to use a mirror for the back. BUT! what a weight, if its glass mirror. I suggest you obtain a plastic based one or if excessively expensive in size required, how about a very thin sheet of highly polished aluminium.

John

Hullo DC1,

Re your grinder piccy in "Subs gifts". Wow! what a nice toolrest. Where did you get it?

Rgds, John

Hullo John,

Dont know how you illuminated subject but my thinking is along lines of something to diffuse the light source or even lighting aimed opposite direction and reflected back to subject, possibly with a mirror.

Rgds, John

Hi fizzy,

I am fairly sure that there have been a couple of articles in ME in recent years on this, using a slot in a bending rolls roller to accomodate one web of the angle and it was brass being bent. Sorry I cannot be any more help - you need to use an online index to find it . I think one method was bending rolls, as above and the other was several (3?) rolling/bending discs mounted in a small vice - jaw like arrangement.

Rgds, John.

Nick,

Try reading many previous posts o0n this subject.

John

I think Merlin was wrong in saying 2 sizes of Reilangs - I am fairly certain that there are 3.

I saw a batch on a stand @ recent MEX which appeared to be very poorly finished. I am wondering whether that trader thinks theyre being `smart` and getting a cheap Chinese version to sell @ normal price for extra profit. If I am right, they will soon `slip up`!

John