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For those of you who like 2oz baccy tins they are still available new and quite cheap as I have bought some recently to completely fill up a storage rack I made. just google smokers supplies.

Noel, Im surprised by what you say about lamp fittings as I have always used 3/8 BSB?

And full of 12gauge. pellets!

Merry Christmas everyone and a Swarfy New Year.

With regards to the scissor jack BEWARE , a friend bought one and when jacking up it promptly let the b ike down (no damage!!!) but the screw and nut failed because they were such a bad fit.It was cheap and now he knows why.I bought a metre of lead screw and a nut and even fitted a thrust bearing and it now works a treat. Screw and nut came from Moore International.

When you say sintered brass I presume you mean bronze, and using sintered material extends the maintainence period. You could also buy a sintered blank and machine your own.

Yes Martin you are quite right about box hardening, I use a it fir small-gears and other instrument parts. Not only do they come out a beautiful shade of grey but as some parts have thin star shaped teeth there is no chance of overheating as they are protected by the canister. Out of interest I put a brown paper tube in the canister to use up the oxygen which results in the nice clean finish

Is it possible that this predates the slocombe drill and spade bits would have been used?

How are you measuring your runout with what and where?

I am at last reaping the benefit of a insulated 12 x 8 workshop were I used to curse that there was not enough room to swing a cat!!!!!

When we used to fix these in the 60s and 70s no glue was used the rubber was stretched and because of this it made it thinner allowing the winder rail to be pushed over the rubber onto the glass and when the rubber was released it made the whole thing tighter. Wouldn't mind a pound for every one done!!!!

Recently had to do some long straight knurls but could not keep the lines straight so ended up cutting them on the shaper with a 5c indexer. Now they are straight. this is on 16mm 316

I agree that the lip length is THE most important thing for accurate sized holes, I use 4 facet sharpening with a secondary point angle on sizes above 6mm as it is believed to keep the hole straighter and give a better finish and just stone the front for brass.

I do some grooving in a motorcycle kit that I do and the grooves are only 0.012 in deep and the lube pours through. I think you will be surprised how little metal you need to remove.

Stevie, I read an article in the last couple of years or so by a guy whose work is almost exclusively using steadies and he was not a fan of using bearings as he thought they were not friendly to the material and also affected the surface finish as a result.

I am having trouble seeing that it is a bsa tank emblem?

As its an epicyclic set up is it possible that one of the three elements is managing to slip under load?

John, small camera icon second from right on top row on post a reply pad.

That inbox stuff sounds good but at 30 quid for 100 gmsI think ill give it a miss!

The post war bed frames were made from a specific high tensile angle so they could use less material when we were very short of that commodity.