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Thread: Why is everything you buy such rubbish!!
09/11/2010 09:34:25
Hi, I do to a certain degree think that you get what you pay for. If you buy at dirt cheap prices then you get sub quality stuff. That isn't the same as buying cheaper than someone else. I usually buy at a mid range kinda price and have generaly found that it performs and lasts to what I would expect of it. When I was devorced around 24 years ago and strarted to live a quiet life, I bought a Service washing machine, not cheap but not dear. It had in its life time a new rubber around the load door and a set of brushes for the motor, however it only lasted 23 years. I have two microwave ovens, the fist one is a Matsui which I've had for 24 years and is still going strong, which has been in vertual daily use (they tryed to get me to buy extra insurance cover at about half the cost of the oven for that) the other one is a Kenwood which was my mothers before she passed on which is about ten years old, but that has some of the paint peeling off inside and I had to do running repairs on it the other week. I don't expect it to last much longer, I think this one might quit first. but this was a cheapie one. They are both turntable types.
      On the other extrem where things are expensive I believe that the extra cost is somewhat cosmetic or the item is over complicated for its use. As an example one of my sisters used to buy the more expensive wasing machines and found more often than not that they often went wrong, had features she never used and lasted only four years or so, she now buys cheap ones and just replace them when they go wrong. She says its cheaper that way, than having higher priced ones repaired even with extra insurance cover on them.
 
Regards Nick.

Edited By Nicholas Farr on 09/11/2010 09:38:14

Thread: The Impecunious Engineer
06/11/2010 11:31:05
Hi, for those who are interested I have put some pics up of my "Turbo" welder as Kwil has tagged it. Kwil the fan has an airflow port of 112mm.
 
Regards Nick.
Thread: current indicator
06/11/2010 10:48:48
Hi Gordon, no I don;t understand how energy saver extension leads save enegy. Probaly just purer copper, so has a few micro omhs less resistance, which of course costs more to buy.
 
Regards Nick.
Thread: Milling Machines
06/11/2010 10:42:52
Hi Derek and everone, I agree with Bogs, only you can choose which is right for you. The biggest problem is that they a like mobil phones! there's so much to choose from. But price, space, practicallity, and apperance will pervail, just get them in the right priority for your own values.
 
Regards Nick.
Thread: Metric vs Imperial - Practical or Traditional?
06/11/2010 10:05:12
Hi Paul, you buy whichever machine you feel comfortable with. There is nothing wrong with going all metric. All engineering is a compromise against cost, therefore if you have plans with imperial threads for instance, you can sustitute them for metric ones. Its really only basic arithmatic.
 
Regards Nick.
06/11/2010 07:40:33
Hi,
    Posted by Paul Trotter on 06/11/2010 01:15:33 At the end of the day there is no right or wrong answer, it is purely a question of personal choice.>>
 
Exactly what others and myself have been saying. Whichever unit of measurement you use, you can make identical parts. (unless you pretend one or the other doesn't exists or is US)
 
Regards Nick.
05/11/2010 22:26:06
Hi Terryd, look at your follow up posting. (second one)
 
Regards Nick
Thread: The Impecunious Engineer
05/11/2010 22:22:08
Hi Neil and Ian, I've got an old SIP one, I bought back in 1985, it was just the same 4 or 5 rods and then a pot of tea and biscuits. I bent up a piece of thin sheet with a gap  at the bottom, put a fan out of a big old daisy wheel printer in the middle so it blows up through the welder and then attached the the whole caboodle onto the bottom of the welder using the casing screws ( with the fan connected to the 240 input of course) and hey presto I could use 12 to 15 rods on the trot.
 
Regards Nick.
Thread: Metric vs Imperial - Practical or Traditional?
05/11/2010 21:59:23
Hi all, 13 pages a bakers dozen, seems this thread is imperial. (pun intended)
 
Regards Nick.
05/11/2010 21:55:30
Hi Terryd, I think you were right the first time.
 
Regards Nick.
Thread: Stuart S50
05/11/2010 09:57:21
Hi Wolfie, I assume you are talking about Loctite 603, which is an improved 601. I doubt that you will notice much difference. You can get all thier technical info from thier website www.loctite.co.uk
 
Regards Nick.
Thread: Metric vs Imperial - Practical or Traditional?
03/11/2010 20:15:38
Hi Andrew, I'm not totally sure, but I think a study of metricating time was done many years ago, but for some reason or other it wasn't a viable or practical idea. Not sure if it was something to do with a year being actually 365 .25 days long, hence the leap years. But of course we now know that time is not truely constant either.
 
Regards Nick.
Thread: Casting concrete beams
02/11/2010 18:50:36
Hi John, Francis mix seems a little weak to me. The info I have gives a general purpose mix of ballest otherwise knowen as pre-mix of 4 to 1, however if it is out in the weather it would want to be a paving/driveway mix of 3.5 to 1. I have not got any info on a structual beam, but I would think it would have to be at least as strong as a driveway.
 
Regards Nick.
Thread: Clarkson Chuck - removing the centre
02/11/2010 11:08:38
Hi, another technique you can try is to get the pressure on it with the press and then heat the body with the pressure is still applied, preferably with a high heat hot air gun. Be ready for a big bang.
 
Regards Nick.

Edited By Nicholas Farr on 02/11/2010 11:30:10

Thread: Stuck chuck
02/11/2010 10:49:06
Hi Mark, are you sure its the type that unscrews, or is it the sort that is fixed to a permanent backplate with socket head screws, or camlock.
 
Regards Nick.

Edited By Nicholas Farr on 02/11/2010 10:55:45

Thread: Tool and cutter grinder head
01/11/2010 16:47:29
Hi pailo, if its the right size and parallel (i.e its not worn out of round or anything) and you can cut, face, drill and tap it OK, I would agree with Ian, use it. I don't know anything much about M/C's, but I'm sure it will be strong enough for any punishment you are likely to give it. I use allsorts of reclaimed bits for my jobs, saves the pennies for something else.
 
Regards Nick.

Edited By Nicholas Farr on 01/11/2010 16:47:53

Thread: Metric vs Imperial - Practical or Traditional?
29/10/2010 20:02:33
Hi Chris, I have no fear of metrication, never have had and have been using metric rule measurements since before the seventy's. Deosn't mean I've got to give up using Imperial.
 
Regards Nick.
Thread: Dial Gauge
29/10/2010 17:39:07
Hi Andrew, I saw on the tele the other night, someone is making jewellery out of bits of hard drives, and other electronic componets. Perhaps tou could sell them some hammer finished earings or something.
 
Regards Nick.
Thread: Metric vs Imperial - Practical or Traditional?
29/10/2010 17:07:17
Hi, when petrol was £0 2s11d you could get 6 gallons for a quid and get some change to boot.
 
Regards Nick.
29/10/2010 12:12:20
Hi Kwill, indeed this is so, espceialy in industry UNC is very commanly used. As we know a coarser thread is stronger in cast iron.
 
Regards Nick.
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