Member postings for John Coates

Ketan has already explained at length why and it is thoroughly reasonable

Why not set up your own machinery supply business so you can fill the gap?

John

I've reported it. Maybe if there is a sea swell of complaints they will pull it

John

TBH this is said of many forums because someone can feign knowledge by Googling etc

I am a member of several motorcycle forums and the same claims are made. Posters can copy text and photos and claim they are their projects/work in progress. It is only the widely read or similarly capable researchers who can reveal such untruths.

I'm not a model maker. When my shed base is built and my shed purchased I shall enjoy hiding in my man cave making tools and tooling so I can make other stuff for bikes and the home. My initial enthusiasm for here has been reduced in my four year's membership to the point where I am a peruser rather than an active participant and that may stop when magazine subscription renewal time comes around next year.

Perhaps it is the real change the internet and computers have wrought. In the old days professionalism was measured by the depth of knowledge in one's head and the ability to apply it. Books were present but you were expected to know a lot more than now - instantaneous retrieval of facts have diminished this skill.

Instead of having a resource in the reference book which has gone through scrutiny and peer review, I am free to research the biased and opinionated scribblings of several thousand "armchair whatevers" on millions of subjects

Unrestricted choice is not always the best option

John

Having a spare small XY table and Myford vertical swivel slide I like it even more as a T&C grinder is on my "must have" list due to my hamfisted newbie blunting of cutters

When the new workshop is up and running in the spring this will be its first project

Thanks a lot

John

To be fair to Aldi I don't think they are any different to many other retailers once the guarantee period has expired

To expect a retailer to fix anything outside of a guarantee period breaches the definition of a guaranteed period

Added to which it wasn't a defect of the machine but rather you own over enthusiasm with a large tree trunk

I will continue to buy Aldi and Lidl stuff as I find it's a cheap way of acquiring a tool for occasional use

If I relied on them for my job or used them frequently then I would consider more costly equipment with a robust reputation but for what I use them for they are great

John

Mine is like Kevin's

Hi Jim

Mine is MT3 so yours could be smaller

Welcome Jim

It doesn't matter how you get here, the ride will be fun

My route was needing to make adaptive spacers and brackets for my motorbikes

Four years later I'm several £1000's spent on tools and tooling but I have a hobby I can do rain, shine or snow that we will see me out until the end of my days

John

It's a Chester Champion circa 1990's.

I've got one with slightly different handles and column raising system

Original motor is 0.5hp/0.37Kw face (flange) mounted. I've converted mine to 3 phase by making a spindle to accept a taper bush and thence a new single drive pulley

Spindle is Morse No.3 which means tooling can be bought (collect chuck, slitting saw arbor, drill chuck)

I've just got to sort a column locking mechanism to keep the column in register when I loosen it to raise or lower. Yours might already have this

John

Edited By John Coates on 22/10/2013 07:58:06

Keith

You have articulated my thoughts precisely. If I am continue to subscribe I want to know that the workshop stuff and tools will be in MEW and the models in the other one. If not then I too will browse in WHS and make my choice on a monthly basis.

ME and MEW in competition for the same readership seems bonkers but there are many changes going on and frankly subscribers seem to be at the bottom of the pile. We are spoken of derogatorily by those in charge and our wishes ignored.

Pan Am had much the same attitude and where are they now?

John

Bazyle: I dug it over to make it easier to work. Next stage is to put the boards in to delineate where the edge of the base will be. Then I will dig out within the boards to establish the datum for the hardcore and thence the top of the base as the finished height of the shed must be 2.5m to comply with planning. Before the hardcore goes down it will get flattened either by whacking with the spade or stomping over with hard boots.

Thanks for the info tho'

Forgot to mention the planning stage and then negotiation with SWMBO

Well got stuck into this today

A few weeks ago I began

and then today I spent five hours digging it over and then wielding a sledgehammer to break up some concrete for the hardcore

I am now bloody knackered and in need of a hot bath and a single malt !

Thanks for this John

I'd bought some of this for de-rusting as had read about it before but have not used it yet

Your tips are excellent and I'll follow them to tackle some tooling I have made but needs a de-rust before blacking e.g. a locking bar for my motorcycle tyre bead breaker, wheel spacers

t'other John

I've never moaned about the website because it has always worked on my home Linux machines and the Windows stuff at work.

I have griped about the CNC content of MEW because it's something I don't have, can't afford, and don't learn any transferable skills from the articles, therefore it has little relevance to me so I complain

The griping and complaining on here is tame compared to some of my motorcycle forums. We are all invisible people in the ether hence why tantrums happen sooner and self opinionated tosh spouts earlier

Bah! humbug

John (49 year old grumpy git in training)

IanT: not bothered about the thread hijack as I have a good list of options and as usual have learned some new stuff from the exchange and the photos

Clive: thanks but looks out of my price range

Phil: thanks I will set up an ebay search and the size/footprint looks like it will go in the new 12' x 8' workshop when I finish it

Edited By John Coates on 02/10/2013 07:21:15

Plans are afoot for the new workshop (read: I've just got to dig the base out which could finish me off haha)

Anyway my mill is a Chester Champion and whilst I am very happy with it I am minded to sell stuff to fund a bigger and better milling machine, the principal reason being that it has a rising table to adjust the vertical distance so I don't lose register (as I do with the Chester) between cutter or tool changes. And I would like to be able to do both vertical and horizontal milling

So which machines would people recommend? Hopefully by selling enough jewelry, spare bike bits and other stuff I could pull together just over a grand

Thanks

John

Edited By John Coates on 01/10/2013 20:43:13

Thanks ever so much for this John

result !!

Well no problems with Firefox 22.0 on Linux Mint so I've got nothing to grumble about

John