Member postings for Colin Heseltine

ALDI's latest offerings this last weekend included a Workzone Inspection Camera. Although I have another inspection camera I thought it was worth a look. The camera head is 5.5mm diameter and that includes the six LED's. My current camera head is 16.5mm dia so quite a difference.

It is a very good piece of kit, how they do it for £39.99 I do not know. Image can be colour or B&W, can be mirrored or turned up side down, magnified 1.5 or 2 times digitally, 5 stage LED brightness, picture brightness, Video output port, long flexible shaft, waterproof to 1 metre, complete with magnetic attachment, hook attachment and mirror attachment. Uses 4 AA batteries. So impressed I went back and bought 2 more for colleagues.

If you need to see into/access difficult places its well worth it.

No connection with ALDI, just satisfied.

Colin

I had not quite envisaged the responses when I put up what I though was a fairly simple request. Thanks for the many replies. Have opted for the NOS set that Brian linked to. Thank you Brian.

I do have a 1/4" drive set with a full range of BA sockets but they tend to be a bit on the large side.

Colin

Guys,

Thanks you for all your contributions to this thread. Looks like I will have to give up on the small sizes as ring spanners. I must admit a year or so back I found a nice set of metric combination spanners that went down to 4mm and I had hope to find something similar. Have to keep open eye at boot sales.

On topic of boot sales I west to a local car show on Saturday and picked up a brand new Verdict gauge .02mm for £20 and an unused Jacobs no. 34 chuck (1-13mm) on MT2 taper for £12.

Thanks again.

Colin

George,

I'm looking for a set that goes smaller than 6BA, which has at least a 5 BA. Ideally I would like combination spanners, or ring spanners sets. I can find open ended right down to 10BA.

Colin

Does anyone know of any manufacturer in UK who makes decent BA spanners, preferably combination set, across the full range of sizes. Not pieces of pressed/punched steel. I can find Kennedy who do a full set of open ended, but cannot find anyone who does the full rang in combination sets.

Colin.

Has anyone been to day one of the Bristol show. How busy was it. What was it like.

Colin

Ian,

Thank you. Its surprising what a good couple of coats of red lead undercoat and decent enamel top coat can do. There are some good close up pictures of a Corbett XL on the lathes.co.uk site.

Colin

I bought this one two years ago. It is a Corbett's XL 7" . It was in a sorry state so stripped it down completely, repainted it, fitted it with new motor and adjustable motor mountings. It runs very nice and quietly. I need to read up on tooling for it. If anyone does an article perhaps they can cover tool options.

Colin

Collected a part completed Anzani 'Y' engine. This will be a long-term project I think. Crankcase is machined and bearings fitted. Cylinders fully machined and valve guides fitted, liners and pistons machined. Rings made but need heat treatment. Have all gears and bushes. Crank 90 % made but has a slight bend issue, which I need to see whether is resolvable or a piece of scrap. I know its not the crankcase as a dummy crank spins freely. This has no crank webs or big end. It may be possible to use this as a base for a fabricated crankshaft and used pinned webs and big end. Not sure how feasible this would be as oil feed holes are required through the first main bearing into the crank, up through the web, across the big end, down through the second web and into the second main bearing. The pins might get in the way or weaken the crank.

Anyway I'm sure it will provide lots of fun and games over the next years or so, plus lots of bad language as I cock things up.

Colin

I have to agree with the fact that clutch slip causes more wear than heavy right foot. I ran a Mk5 Cortina for around 120K miles, a lot of which all of which was towing a car trailer and race car. Always went straight up box, changing gear at around 5000 revs all way up box. Never had a problem, neither when pulling a big fully loaded caravan. My other half eats clutches in her cars.

Would something like a Gabro BF620 folder roll this up. I regularly swap out the top folder clamp bar for a 3" diameter steel tube and I can then roll bends on to flat sheet. I have not rolled anything quite than thick but have been able to fold 1/8" steel flats up to 2" wide. I would have thought it would do your 2.5mm by 130mm long aluminium. You would need to calculate the angle to move the plate to get the appropriate bend.

Colin

Has anyone on here had a look at, or use, the Fisher Delta 3D printer. They were on a stand at the Doncaster show last weekend. The build quality looked good (to me) but it was not printing at the time.

Wondering how the Delta type of printer compares to the Prusa i3.

Thanks,

Colin

Not quite today, but last night. I collected one of these.

It does not appear to have been used and was being sold off on behalf of the family following a bereavement.

Once I have some imperial adaptors made I can start and sharpen my end mill stock, most of which are imperial.

Colin

I use M5 rivnuts all the time. I use the ribbed ones with thin sheet heads. These need a 7.1mm hole, put I usually use the fly-press with a 7mm hole punch. Then lightly countersink the head side of the hole. I have fitted at least a 1000 of these over last 4 or 5 years. The tool looks like a direct copy of the Eclipse version (which I use).

A good site to take a look at is "Make Ends Meet" (www.memfast.co.uk), they have other types of rivnut installer and hold a full range of rivnuts. I have no connection other than a very satisfied customer.

Colin

Dave,

One problem Is that I was wearing a nylon jacket, this was early December, and it melted on my hands and arms. My poor Labrador had been next to me in the garage when it all went bang and I found her cowering down the garden (unharmed) , next the 8ft fillet of wood from above the window which had blown out from behind the barge boards when the roof lifted up.

I brought flashback arrestors the following week.

Colin

I had a couple of close calls when welding on old cars when slight fuel vapour leak has caught fire but managed to get the ensuing fires out quickly without damage to vehicle or me.

The worst was using a gas fluxer whilst brazing. Had pulled car into garage, Lit the pilot light on the Oxy/acetylene economiser valve (using this you can hang the torch on a hook which shuts of oxygen and acetylene valves and puts out the torch, pick the torch back up, valves open, flick through pilot light an away you go again). I had used this thing loads building suspension for my FF1600 race car. As I was brazing a lot I had a gas fluxer connected inline with the acetylene, the acetylene bubbled through the flux and you just used the brazing rod like a welding rod no need to cover with powered flux.

I bent down and turned the fluxer on, (small knob on the top of fluxer). Next minute a massive boom, garage full of flames and fires everywhere including me on fire from head to foot. Glasses blown off face (had not put welding goggles on as was still setting up) .Oh sh.t thinks me, ran outside and rolled down lawn to put out my fires. Ran back into garage to see fires everywhere (under cans of cellulose thinners, cellulose paint etc.and all sorts, anything paper on fire, all plastic shrink wrapped, all paintwork bubbled as though a blow torch had been on it. Even the up and over garage door was bent out at thirty degrees and the garage roof had lifted 3" and dropped back down. Found fire extinguisher and started putting out fires. Old man came into garage (working in his garage) gave him fire extinguisher and then ran to bath and jumped into it, all taps and shower on. When cooled down suddenly remembered no flashbacks on cylinder so back into garage. Move my 10 tone press, turn bottles off, get them outside and vent them to the atmosphere. Then hijacked car coming down the road to take me to hospital. 1st/2nd degree burns to 30% body. My mates at local garage could not believe it as they said how ell I looked after my kit.

Even now 30 years later I can still picture being surrounded by flames. The burns had all healed within a month to six weeks.

Still got the fluxer but never used it since. The Fire Brigade were called by the hospital and they took it away for investigation. It appears the set screw holding the knob had sheared and the four pints of highly flammable flux and been sprayed out under the pressure of the acetylene. Hit the pilot light and the rest was history.

It was a standing joke when I went back to work on the Monday, after the mishap on the Friday before, all the jokes came out. How hot, how hot, ask Colin

So it was not the oxy/acetylene per se just the kit attached to kit.

Be careful.

Colin

My father always taught me to hollow grind the blade of screwdrivers. They always lock into the slot in the screw, rather than use the taper of the blade to twist out of slot.

Colin

I reckon its going to be a small observatory.

Colin

I've had the Bosch version for a few years now. I bought it primarily for cutting holes in plasterboard for fixing back boxes for data cabling. Can get a nice square cut, nicely on size. Brilliant bit of kit.

Colin

I know there was a migration scheduled to new host. Is his taking place at present or is the site down.

Regards,

Colin