Here is a list of all the postings Nicholas Farr has made in our forums. Click on a thread name to jump to the thread.
Thread: cutting a v grove in iron |
20/06/2023 06:46:41 |
Hi Jon, I did two, one about 11mm wide and one about 6mm wide, in a 500mm long piece of 50 x 50mm square block of steel. I just clamped the block down into a couple of Vee blocks, and used an end mill. This is used for folding sheet metal. Regards Nick. |
Thread: Making a large washer. |
18/06/2023 12:01:48 |
Hi, I believe Justin only wanted to remove the cross-slide etc. to be able to move the carriage closer to the headstock, so that his tailstock would be able to get close enough to be able to reach with his hole saw to cut the virgin hole in the first place. However, if the cross-slide nut that can be seen in his photo doesn't come out easily, the carriage may still not pass below his chuck jaws without hitting it. Regards Nick. |
Thread: 1/2" Coventry Diehead CHS type |
18/06/2023 08:28:26 |
Hi Tony, a similar question was asked in Coventry Die Heads Regards Nick. |
Thread: Making a large washer. |
18/06/2023 06:54:47 |
Hi Justin, don't you have a self centring three jaw chuck as shown in JasonB's second photo? Regards Nick. Edited By Nicholas Farr on 18/06/2023 06:58:06 |
Thread: New Chester Craftsman or Colchester Master Mk1.5 |
16/06/2023 16:01:49 |
Posted by Rooossone on 16/06/2023 12:20:30:
Posted by Robin on 16/06/2023 11:36:10:
Why does the Chester Craftsman All jolly good fun I have no answers for you I'm afraid. And Nicholas, I will consider getting that book though it is somewhat more expensive. Hi Rooossone, I understand there is a difference in the price. I have a second hand 1993 edition, which was bought from A.J. Reeves & Co. in 1993, how do I know this, because the person that bought it, left the till receipt and the Visa slip, inside the pages, and it cost £8.50. Reeves 2000 sell the 1998 edited edition with just the same amount of pages, but a slightly smaller and thinner book for £8.95, so I guess the value of it has gone down in real terms. I think I paid about £3.00 for mine about five years, which is still in near mint condition. As JasonB has said, there's nothing about index tooling in it. Don't get me wrong, I'm not chucking the baby out with the bath water, as there is still a lot of good info in it, but things do move on, and of course the choice is yours. Regards Nick. |
Thread: Google's Graffitti on 'lathes.co' |
16/06/2023 09:16:56 |
Hi, while adverts can be annoying, they do provide revenue to maintain the site, but you could send Tony a big donation to help with costs, which might reduce some of the them. However, the one advert that I find most annoying, is the one that creeps up from the bottom every time you switch to a new page. I don't know when Tony first had this site, but I did contact him back in 2004 about the lathe in the photo below, as well as a few other lathes of around the same time period, and he was very helpful. The photo below shows the name RandA cast into the lathe bed, which Tony at the time was not sure if the name was ever cast into the bed, although averts showed it to be so, but maybe this lathe was the only one that had the cast in name, which was used for the adverts, but probably not. Regards Nick. |
Thread: Thread gauge |
15/06/2023 22:42:26 |
H Milly S, this 13G? thread may also have answers for you. Regards Nick. |
Thread: Subscriptions? |
15/06/2023 19:15:38 |
Hi, I got another one yesterday, so I just deleted it just as I did the last one. Regards Nick. |
Thread: New Chester Craftsman or Colchester Master Mk1.5 |
15/06/2023 12:33:53 |
Rooossone, have you considered this book? Lathework for beginner's much more up to date than Sparey's one. Regards Nick. Edited By Nicholas Farr on 15/06/2023 12:35:34 |
Thread: LBSC"S Britannia |
15/06/2023 09:57:53 |
Hi Ian, I've just had a look on teepublishing,co.uk and they look to have all the volumes, but they are not cheap. Regards Nick. |
15/06/2023 06:50:20 |
Hi Ian, L.B.S.C.'s Britannia was detailed in ME volumes 104 - 109, these can often be found on ebay, but The Engineers Emporium may have these volumes. Regards Nick. |
Thread: Drill Press Wear |
14/06/2023 10:50:21 |
Hi Kiwi Bloke, one of the worn out drills I had to use in one of my day jobs, was one of those Fobco cream coloured floor standing ones, this had about the same amount of slop that Rick has described with his. The clamping on the table to the column was also well worn, which was probably as much on the top end of the column, and you had to use an extension tube to get the table tight enough to hold it at any position on the column, but it still drilled very good holes. Regards Nick. Edited By Nicholas Farr on 14/06/2023 10:52:20 |
13/06/2023 23:13:01 |
Hi Rick, used a few press drills like that in my time, so not unusual for a machine of that age if it spent most of its time in industry. You should however clamp your work down when drilling on a new or old machine. Regards Nick. |
12/06/2023 12:03:13 |
Hi Rick, I've used many worn / clapped-out drill presses during my day jobs, some with quite q lot of slop in the quill, but like Andrew said, if they drill holes what's the worry. It is surprising how even a very wobbly quill, will drill quite a true hole, providing the drill bit is decent. In my last day job, I had to tap a good number of M8 holes using a auto-reverse tapping head, which it did without any problems, and that was with a really worn sloppy quill. Picture below is not the best quality, as it's taken from a video recorded on my old phone. Regards Nick. Edited By Nicholas Farr on 12/06/2023 12:05:04 |
Thread: Making a large washer. |
10/06/2023 11:10:56 |
Hi Justin, just set it up in your four jaw as JasonB has shown and cut the hole with your 36mm hole cutter, but make sure there is a clearance so your cutter doesn't make contact with the chuck jaws when it breaks through, then bore it out to size, and proceed in the same way as said and shown to trim the outer diameter to size. Regards Nick. |
Thread: Alzheimer's |
10/06/2023 07:20:29 |
Hi, my grandmother developed Alzheimer's more or less after my grandfather died. She came to live with us, but her condition got worse quite rapidly, and when we moved house, she started to spend about six weeks in care and then came back to spend six weeks with us. One day she had got out of the house, and I spotted her walking past our front room window on the street, and immediately realised she was going for a walk to who knows where. So my quick thinking was to go and grab my pushbike and catch up with her, as she could still walk fairly fast, even with her winter coat on. I was only about 14 at the time, and when I caught up with her, I tried to convince her to come back home. It was a hot sunny day in the school holidays, and we ended in town, which was about a mile and a half from our house, after about another half mile trek around the town centre, I managed to convince her it was time to go home. When we got back, the rest of my family had been quite worried, but guessed that I was with her. One of the saddest things though, was that she could get quite violent if you pushed her too much to do anything she didn't what to do, but she was the nicest and kindest person you could ever meet with the patience of a saint, before she became ill. She did eventually stay in care permanently, where she died peacefully about nine months later. It is certainly a horrible disease and a lot of care and understanding needs to be had for people who get it, and it can be hard work day after day. Regards Nick.
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Thread: Freesat recorder HDD |
07/06/2023 07:19:21 |
Posted by Bazyle on 05/06/2023 23:19:19:
The HDD in a recorder is under way more stress than a PC so the disc manufacturers make special versions for them, so your replacement might not last as long as you expect. Some Freesat boxes may be less regulated than Sky or VM which are required by the film makers to pair the disc to the box during production so that you cannot switch and pass the disc plus recordings to a mate to watch films they haven't paid for, Hi, not sure it makes the HDD to be matched exactly. I have my main TV in my lounge, and a small one in my kitchen, both of which can record any of the TV programmes onto any USB memory device, however, if I record something on my main TV, it can't be watched on the TV in the kitchen, or vice versa, nor can it be view on a PC or through the USB ports on my Blu-ray player . So I imagine the recordings are encrypted to only be read by the device they are recorded on. Regards Nick. Edited By Nicholas Farr on 07/06/2023 07:20:38 |
Thread: Equipment for brazing? |
06/06/2023 15:33:39 |
Hi, in my last day job I once had to repair part of a Go-cart chassis, It was a tubular frame and a couple of small struts had broken away from a main tube where it joined another one. When I clean the area of paint, the struts and the two tubes were MIG brazed together. Well, the firm had no equipment for doing MIG brazing, and when I told the supervisor about it, I was told to do it with Oxy-acetylene, so I said it won't look as good as it was done before, and it would show up against the existing well brazed part. He just said not to worry about it and just do it, so I did. Whoever did the brazing on it when it was made, was certainly good at his job. Regards Nick. |
Thread: Bench Grinder Bush |
06/06/2023 10:03:55 |
Hi, I do have a summery of wheel mount procedures in an album Wheel Mounting which should be followed by everyone regardless of home or work use. Regards Nick. |
Thread: Bought a new vice |
06/06/2023 08:09:57 |
Hi Hopper, found my tapes this morning and it's on his Atlantic Bridge album 1976 track 4, the title is Rentalaugh-The Vaseline Salesman. Regards Nick. |
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