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Hi, I would in most cases cut stainless plate with a 4-1/2" angle grinder with a thin cutting disc, but it does need to be one with INOX marked on it, especially if you are going to weld it. When I had to cut 30 24mm wide stripes from some 1mm think plates, I clamped six plates at a time in the vice on my milling machine and cut them one by one with a slitting saw, which made sure they were all the same width and no over heat stains on them, and were far easier to hold, as the last two from each plate, would have made holding them difficult.

Regards Nick.

Edited By Nicholas Farr on 23/01/2023 13:18:12

Hi, I wouldn't be surprised if it was a cut and paste picture, with the girl and the message just pasted over a workshop photo. So no hazard, but not a good safety advert for the applicants.

Regards Nick.

Hi MichaelG, stage performances aside, I guess they could be a valuable asset to industry in time, and would've saved considerable costs in my old maintenance day job, where the risk factor was too high for us mere mortals to do some things without hiring cranes and man baskets and or scaffolding, just to replace a bolt for example.

Regards Nick.

Hi Mike, the sequencing of parts on the assembly line were very prominent at Nissan, as the colours of the bodies and doors were different each time as well as the different variants in the same model of car, and each of the assembly personal had the buckets filled in a continuous stream for the different parts for different car variants, must have been a logistical nightmare for someone, it was amazing to see it, as the time that each part was fitted was also allocated and they had to fit each piece before their travelling station was automatically returned to the next car, they were all 20 to 25 year olds and had a rotation of the station they were on each day.

Regards Nick.

Hi Hopper, yes I guess it's a different world in such places now, we didn't see the body workshop, but we did go into the panel pressing shop, which had three different sized giant presses that look about the size of a large two story house, the biggest one being one of only two in Europe then and cost £5,000,000 and there was just as much of it below the floor, we weren't allowed to see any thing they were pressing in that one as they were developing new complete side panels for their new Primera at the time, but they did have a very large workforce back then, probably has been reduced by now. The company that I worked for then, doesn't supply them anymore and the plant that produced what they had was demolished ten years ago. As Bob Dylan's song goes "Times they are A-changing" The title of which may have some relevance for things forever.

Regards Nick.

Hi AStroud, when I was at college we had a tour of Perkins Diesel in Peterborough in about 1971/2 and didn't have any problems, in fact everyone was very helpful and polite.

Regards Nick.

Hi, when I went to Nissan in Sunderland in a small group of us in the latter part of the 1990's, as part of the local improvement team inter company visits, when working in my day job at that time, I think we had to wear hard hats and safety glasses, but the all the factory floors were painted different colours for the various aspects of production and assembly, but we were only allowed to walk on the designated walkways, which I seem to remember were painted blue. We had a guide of course, but in places, forklift trucks would pass over the walkways, and these had yellow criss-cross lines and warning signs, as the forklift trucks had priority over pedestrians. They were a very efficient and safety conscious company, and the work areas were incredible clean. It was a very interesting and informative visit, but there were no singing and dancing girls (or boys) to be seen. Although we had a table reserved in the canteen for lunch with our guide, generally no one employed there could reserve any place in the queue or any of the tables, and that included all of the management, and was on a first come first serve basis and we had to queue up with our tray like everyone else.

Regards Nick.

Hi MichaelG, although not as severe as your scales, I've had this credit card size calculator powered by just the little solar panel, which was a freebee just for enquiring about a quote. Bearing in mind that it's probably 25 years old, I'm not surprised it's suffering a similar effect, but I can't remember how long ago I first noticed it. It's been kicking about in all sorts of places like draws and just laying around wherever it was last used each time and got quite grubby at one time, and I'm amazed that it is still working. Is is totally sealed and there is no way of opening it up without prising it apart, which would probably render it useless, and I guess it will get worse over time, but I'm not really bothered about that. So whether it is just age or has had some kind of pressure damage that has caused it, I know not.

Regards Nick.

Edited By Nicholas Farr on 20/01/2023 08:35:14

Hi, this Apollo Capsule was in the London Science Museum in 2012, apparently it took 500 million man-hours to develop.

Regards Nick.

Hi, if you have a Turbocharger, I understand that it is very unwise to run it without a proper air filter.

Regards Nick.

Hi, there isn't an exact time in each year when the four seasons start or finish (I'm not talking about Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons) but this npl.uk.co.uk/resources may help you.

Regards Nick.

Edited By Nicholas Farr on 17/01/2023 10:30:31

Hi MichaelG, looks like they have left a 0 off all their figures, just like I did yesterday, which I owned up too in my later post at 14/01/2023 15:42:36 Chuck Weights

Regards Nick.

Hi Simon, maybe it's just a quality control number of the person that checked it out.

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Hi MichaelG, no worries, I think we all go there now and again, but better to ask than beat your brain about and getting frustrated, been there and done that few times.

Regards Nick.

Edited By Nicholas Farr on 14/01/2023 22:56:54

Hi MichaelG, well seeing the the same thing is printed on the top right hand corner of the back view and Oldiron says the one he has works fine off a 13 A plug, I took it that the descriptive text is incorrect. I have seen incorrect descriptive text on somethings that I have bought which were ordered on line, even from the likes of Currys/PC World.

Regards Nick.

Hi MichaelG, open Journeyman's link and then advance the right hand arrow ( > ) in the picture to select the next view and you will see the front view top left and the back view bottom right, place your cursor over the space under the front view and to the left of the back view where is has HBM 145.

Hope I've explained it to your requirements.

Regards Nick.

Hi, after reading Nigel B's post above, I checked the weights of my two chucks and they should both have an 0 on the end making them 2560g & 1460g respectively.

Regards Nick.

Hi well looking at the ratings plate in the second photo of Journeyman's link, it looks OK to me to use on a domestic 13 A plug top, albeit not on a continuous duty cycle at the highest setting maybe. Not that I'm a fan of gassless welders, had one years ago when that was all I could afford, and was only just a little bit better than useless.

Regards Nick.

Hi Pete, I got this one from one of the traders at one of the exhibitions several years ago. The jaws are positioned via screws from the side and then have to be tightened from behind, and the jaws do not extend beyond the chuck body. See photo in my above post.

Regards Nick.

Edited By Nicholas Farr on 14/01/2023 11:04:53

Hi JasonB, yes it is fairly slim body, which in itself is quite light, but the jaws and the fixings are a reasonable weight, but I did have to make a backplate for it to screw onto, to be able to fit it to my mini lathe and in all it weights around 256g whereas the 80mm chuck weights around 146g.

Here's a photo of the back side of the chuck with the Backplate that I made for this and couple of other small screw-on chucks.

Regards Nick.

Edited By Nicholas Farr on 14/01/2023 10:57:29