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go round your local ind est and look for engineering places and walk in with your drawing and ask if they could help with materials or info, its surprising how accommodating people can be.

you quote kph not mph does that not increase the size of your minefield?. If your speedo is marked kph not mph do you not have to overlay that with mph markings?, if so the overlay could be graduated to suit.

Not fitted an angel eye but made one on a piece of f/glass board with two rows of led's and powered by a wall wart. its done about ten years service so far (touch wood).

Do you all go to shows just to buy something?

cut the tree down!

Yes I'm with the setscrew def. and was always under the illusion that screws were for wood or if engineering type threads they had heads with slots in

Hold it in a town where there is no emission zone, there must be some in the southeast with large halls or racecourses?

If you use a chucking reamer you should be ok as the only cut on the 45deg lead, I do have one or two old fashioned reamers that cut on the front as well like an end mill and have used these in the past to ream blind bores like you need on hand pumps.

find the recent post "ML7 top slide" for some answers.

try sarik hobbies on the righthand side of this page for a start

Thanks Michael, on the ball as usual.

Would like to do the same but can't find the editor?

You could let the ball down by heating to red heat and covering in insulting material to let it cool slowly then you can work on it. For the female make internal form tool. For a perfect match run them together with a little abrasive paste.

Finally assembled the Humbug in glow form and it runs!!!

Suggest you read page 51 of shaper operations by j w Barritt. . As regards to using a hinge.

Suggest you read page 51 of shaper operations by j w Barritt. . As regards to using a hinge.

when cutting tee slots people use a hinge to lift the tool completely clear after each cut, this requires quite a bit of extra stroke either end.

You can please some of the people etc. etc. And it’s er16 not 15,,

If you have undone the switches and the fault has gone I would start there.

If you just use cellulose sanding sealer on all surfaces corrosion is eliminatied.