Member postings for Brian in OZ

Hello Bayzle,

Thanks for the info, but could you give us just a little hint as to where in the 27 pages of that thread we might find the :

"Put in a stop - see JS posting in 'what did you do today' thread."

Info ?? Thanks

Brian

Hello Norman,

Agree with you in that it does not look all that much different, as Diane says it is only a change in the "template" for the webpages of ME and MEW the actual underlying content won't change.

Had a squiz at the digital version of the patchwork magazine and found the "page is loading" progress bar is in the middle of the page (where it should be) instead of up the top corner as in ME and MEW where it is very difficult to see on a laptop. Be nice if "someone" could fix it ??

Anyway would be interesting to see how it is implemented in ME and MEW

Brian

Patrick,

As has already been said, how about getting the site working before trying to change it yet again. It always seems to be "year zero" with this site and also the old 80/20 rule ie 80% of the MHW people know nothing and 20% know something but finding those 20% is always the problem.

When is the

Latest Model Engineers' Workshop

going to be updated on the front page ??? almost the end of August and July issue still showing !!.

OH!! and when the "person" upgraded the hardware on the 8/9th August do you think he/she should have gotten around to removing the upgrade message or are we going to have to look at it for another couple of months.

You seem to have (temporarily ??) gotten the PocketMags function working for at least ME and MEW but it doesn't work for other mags that I subscribe with MHW for !!

That's all I can think of right now, as someone has said "bah humbug" to FB, Twitter and whatever else just give us a functional website.

AH!! just thought of another one....When you attempt a "global" search of the site for a subject, you are only actually searching in post headings, bit useless.

Sorry if this is your new job Patrick, think you may have been sold something that "fell off the back of a truck" as ideas go.

Regards

Brian

Edited By Brian in OZ on 20/08/2013 00:51:15

Sid,

Thanks for your reply will try out the PocketMags reader again, I thought that "refresh" reloaded a magazine. Anyway will see.

Also thanks for the info on the spell checker, that's a bummer that custom words are in a cookie, wonder if I can exclude that cookie from deletion.

No "edit" in sight, so will wait till I post this message

Koalas were friendly but those darned eucalyptus leaves get stuck in my teeth, we discussed the merits of leaves near the trunk as against leaves on the outer area of the tree. No consensus..

Brian K

AHA !! found the Edit function.....

Edited By Brian in OZ on 20/07/2013 04:44:23

Guess it only stays there for a short while, interesting that "back" works too..

Edited By Brian in OZ on 20/07/2013 04:45:43

Hi Gents and thanks for your comments.

Sid......Before trying out the off-line reader for my comments in this thread I actually re-installed the reader direct from the PocketMags site, did not un-install as was concerned that I would loose all my downloaded mags..Anyway will have another go and "print" icon is definitely not on my screen.

Having "only" 58 posts on this site I had not gotten around to finding that the editor HAD a spell checker, must use it...Ta ever so much..

Neil.....I'll give the "Edit" function a try, except when posting while on line I usually make up any posts in Notebook or Word and use the appropriate spell checker. FF spell checker seems to work on most websites. In another thread someone mentioned that this editor "times out" if you take too long writing up a post, but certainly did not happen in my post about PocketMags. So I can use this editor with more confidence.

I find using this website a bit like learning some new Windows software, "we" are the beta users discovering all the "anomalies"..

In all the excitement I forgot to check out the iTunes access to the issues will do that tomorrow.

Those Koala bears were very friendly, must try that again to "unwind"..

Just tried the spell checker, does anyone know what SCAYT is ?? as the checker wants it enabled or disabled.

Brian K

NB..just trying the edit function...ie..left click on the new posting and "back" so that your posting re-apears in the edit box..

wow!! it works, thanks Neil, but where is the date thingy ??

Weeelllll !!! that was a waste of a good hour.

Thanks to the hints on this and the other thread I did manage to get my subs to ME, MEW and MM "hooked" to my PocketMag account, but it seems only current issue and issues back to August 2012 are available to me. Where are all the other archived issues and those previous issues I have actually paid for ??

Tried to read issues ON-LIne with
(a) Silver whatever ... nice read but doesn't do anything else, no printing no nothing and can't find a way to read another issue other than to crash the reader and start over again.
(b) Flash whatever....nice read but no "print" facility in bottom left corner, instead have to "left mouse" to get menu which has a "print" function. Only problem it appears to be a "print screen" function NOT a page printing ability, also only that bit of the screen you are actually displaying. The "Flash" application kept complaining that it's script was not working and did I want to abort or continue in the hope that it would actually work.

Tried to read issues OFF-LINE.
I do have some special pocketmags separatly purchased which seem to work in the PC off-line reader BUT no print facility and they keep getting lost from my PC, having to download an issue again all the time is very slow even though my download speed is usually in excess of 1.5mB/sec. Can find no way either in the reader or the website to actually get my ME, MEW and MM issues on to my machine. Although the off-line reader is a Beta version I would have expected a bit more functionality, having to hack away at it till it does something intelegent, by that time you haven't a clue what you did to get it to work.

OH ! yes, somewhere along the line my spell checker has been disabled, maybe new version of FireFox doesn't have it.

Ya all hava good day now ya hear !!!
Think I'll go play with the Koala bears in the park and make some better use of my time.

OOPS!! forgot my spell checker..

By the way I often see a message such as "Edited By Robbo on 18/07/2013 21:13:48" at the end of a message, is this generated by a particular editor program ??

Agree, it looks good but "This app is designed for both iPhone and iPad", wonder if I can use iTunes via PC to do the same thing, if so, very good insdeed. Am loading iTunes on my PC to give it a try.

Maybe it is so new even the moderator's don't know about it ??? That's MHS for you.

I have recently started using PocketMags to source specialist mags and find it quite good, but the PC off-line reader is a litle "twitchy" though I see in another thread that the issue of printing may have been fixed.

Wish the PocketMag help were a little bit more informative, a recent enquiry resulted in an absolutly stupid reply. I'll be charitable and assume a PC rather than a human answered my enquiry

Thanks Andy,

That is a great collection of little bits and pieces.

Brian

Hello Thor,

The link to Harbor Freight is great only problem is postage to this part of the world is humongous.

I can't find the plans for the small pipe bender listed in the the link you gave, guess the picture says it all, but wondering if you by chance had a copy of the plans.

Regards

Brian

The Orange Vise site has a nice Speed/Feed calculator and a Drill/Tap chart the page is at

**LINK**

Brian

Hello Jerry,

Firstly using a silver alloy to join metals is usually refered to as "brazing" and is done at much higher temperatures than "soldering" with lead/tin alloys. Secondly I am assuming you are using the appropriate gauge/type of pipe and flat copper for the job.

You mention"a piece of 1.6mm copper sheet to 'cap' the tube off"
This method is usually only used to "cap off" a piece of tube and not for what might be construed as a pressure vessal or joint, in which case you should use a proper "pipe cap" which is a pressure fitting.

For copper to copper you dont need flux when using a 5% silver alloy rod, if you are using something like No 2 Flux (borax in water) then you will only mess up the joint.

Then you say "cleaned very bright with emery "
Good, hope you did inside and outside of the joint so that the brazing alloy can run around the inside of the joint too.

THEN !
"and played the propane torch all over the joints for several minutes before removing the flame and touching the stick.."
.AAAHH!!! Now this is perhaps where you are coming unstuck. Heating of the joint is good and application of the brazing rod is good BUT you should NOT take the heat away from the job, you need it to keep the job hot enough to continue melting the rod around the joint. OR do you mean you simply re-directed the flame to another part of the joint.

Either way I think I can safely say with reasonable surety that a propane torch will not provide the heat output required for silver brazing, it is usually used for "soft" soldering ie lead/tin alloys. I have not built model train boilers so some of you guys may have an "issue" with this statement.

Also the Bunnings site states that your torch " is ideal for medium joints, soft soldering, paint stripping, glazing, enamelling, jewellery, bending and tempering pipes, aluminium brazing, smelting light metals, freezing seized pipes, bolts and small forging work"

Regards Brian

David
Great mix of stuff, looking forward to the 200 issue.
As for the grumblers in the stalls there is always, always a better mousetrap and I get as much enjoyment out of seeing how things are made in both ME and MEW as I do with the actual projects.
Regards
Brian

Hi Siddley,
Sounds like a great project, are you building the complete bike or just the engine ?
In my younger days was a very keen bike rider and at one time had a Beeza Victor 441cc single, tossed me over the handle bars just once too often so got traded in. But it like the Vellocett and AJS were a joy to ride (real bikes) and as we used to say 'back in the day' they 'fired once every telegraph pole'.

If building a whole bike how about toothed belt drive to the back wheel, I think a BMW uses this drive train so not too way out. As for machineing the toothed cogs, check out the article on this site covering re-belting SL and 3/4 Emco's, cogs are machined with a standard milling cutter out of AL.

Let us know how you go
Brian

Hi Graham, what an amazing little machine, what scale are you planning.
Some interesting machineing/fabrication, especially the back wheels, please keep "us" in the loop.
Regards
Brian

Hi David,

Issues 198 and 4445 seem to be working OK, but do wish your programer would get rid of the November message.

Regards
Brian

Hi Bob,

Yes it is one of those sneaky sites, in fact I just checked out the file I downloaded and found it to be corrupted so can't open it. Deleted it and hope I did not get any other "junk" with it, might go back later and figure out what happened, in the meantime I'll do a Google and see if the manual is available elsewhere.

Brian

Hi Frank,

What on earth did you do with your last msg ??

((Posting deleted by Diane))

I print from the page viewer though I will say that sometimes a page will take a while to upload and no printing will happen till this is complete. I think it was the previous issue of MEW the "programing person" did not position the "downloading" box very well and it was almost impossible to find (top left corner of the page).

Yes, as "Steambuff" says, you print from the page viewer NOT from your browser or operating system.

Regards

Brian in OZ

Edited By Diane Carney on 03/12/2012 17:13:35

Hello "Bob Perkins",

The file is there but as Dcosta pointed out be very carefull as the site will try and download some other software to your PC. When it leaves you at the "download" screen simply use your browser to back-up (go backwards) one screen and you will find one of those little boxes to fill in a code, do this and "submit" then a couple of lines above you will seee PDF you are after, simply "right click" it and save, is a good file.

Also thanks to Michael, the PDF you made available is really good

Regards

Brian in OZ

Hi William,

Take it you mean bronze brazing, if so in a previous life i did quite a lot of cast iron repairs both with oxy and electric...there are some special rods (electric) for cast iron which along with good preparation and pre-heating/slow cooling produce a very good job..need a little grinding to tidy up the welds but otherwise quite acceptable....bronze brazing works too but you need a lot more pre-heating of the item and a good heat source ie oxy acetalyne...tried it with oxy/lp and heat input not so good...but depends on how thick the item is and how big as the rest of the item 'heatsinks' the heat away from the repair..

Regards

Brian