Here is a list of all the postings Raymond Sanderson 2 has made in our forums. Click on a thread name to jump to the thread.
Thread: lathe books. |
20/04/2015 03:31:21 |
A word of warning |
Thread: Know nothing |
19/04/2015 04:40:26 |
Nick thats some collection and a beaut machine pity you are in the UK I'd snap the lot up and be divorced at a moment notice. |
Thread: What did you do today (2015) |
12/04/2015 06:53:23 |
Made a simple Snake Eyes Bolt tool for son for work he will attach 3 12mm nuts and lock tite them then he can use a socket and bar to tighten these in place. The spanner the company got is useless in the tight area. The pin with the X on was a bad apple in the box he reckons company bought the boxes as seconds as many of them have faults not just the holes but threads as well. Stainless Steel bolts The pins are sheer pins from die setting machines mate got me these are press fit (hammered in) 4mm protrusion. |
04/04/2015 05:57:24 |
First is "Not today" but a week or so ago had to make up some Dowel jig drill guides in metric for the jig I have which was dad's and only had 1/4" guide. I used the 6mm to line up and drill holes in the wheelchair rims for the hand grips I was fitting. That being done just some new tyres and I have a spare set ready to go.
Today was reduce an impact socket for oldest son for use at work. It had an OD of 20.87mm he needed it reduced to 18mm and the step length or depth reach longer. HSS cutter wouldn't so out came the Carbide. |
05/03/2015 22:10:53 |
Posted by John Stevenson on 05/03/2015 21:39:12:
Posted by Raymond Sanderson 2 on 05/03/2015 21:24:00:
The one I restored had signs of a bodgers tools. .
Can't remember working on that ? John I know some of ME/MEW blokes are ancient but not you would be 200 years old.It was a family heirloom brought over from Scotland somewhere round early 1800's. Then again the wealth of knowledge the gents have just might be as ancient as the 2100BC Chinese spinning wheel. |
05/03/2015 21:24:00 |
Posted by Neil Wyatt on 05/03/2015 17:55:53:
Nice one Raymond, Once upon a time things like that sued to get featured in ME! In january 2016 we want pics of you in the homespun Christmas Jumper Neil Ian they "sued" to get in ME? Well it is Sue's wheel after all. A Christmas Jumper ? no way to bloody hot here maybe Christmas in July if I am lucky not sure what year I am still waiting for a vest which has taken longer than the wheel to make |
04/03/2015 21:38:47 |
At last after 5 yrs its together and running. Lots of other projects took priority many times, all set up for testing some minor adjustments to be made and I can clear my work bench. All English Oak LOML's 4th wheel not one is the same.
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04/03/2015 21:29:21 |
Posted by NJH on 04/03/2015 09:31:21:
Paul / Raymond I assume that you are referring to the Dewhurst reversing switch? The earlier version of this certainly did have an operating lever that stuck out at the front and could easily have been operated " by waist"!!! Later versions were modified to reduce this risk - not too difficult to modify the " long lever" type I would think. Norman
Norman Mine is actually an Aussie made (Kelly brand but Dewhurst type) this one will be fitted by a friend who is an electrical engineer so i am expecting hours of fun LOL. The handle I suspect will be altered. Thanks Bazyel will get Paul to look into it as the wiring all was new with switch box just prior me buying it. (Long short is that these are now illegal in the UK. Why anyone wants to go back to retro fitting one on a Myford is beyond me. Now I know I'm going to get Chris Trice on my back but this is typical of a new owner wanting to go back to original.
Why not go back three stages and fit a treadle drive as they had them at one time.) Well John I wish to do thread cutting all part of learning and the price I paid for the swtich was way less than they had been on they bay. |
04/03/2015 04:01:52 |
Posted by Windy on 03/03/2015 23:18:05:
Was playing with the Myford tonight and caught the long on off switch I thought this is dangerous the overhang round the waist gets in the way and sometimes catches it. Saw on another post about the lever being altered to a knob to stop catching the lever switch so made an alteration so it wont be caught again. When in a cramped workshop it's so easy to knock things. Paul Paul will soon be fitting a Reverse switch to mine and I am in very confined quaters and set up. So this may be just what i need to make it safer. Did you make the knob or just shorten the existing one?? |
02/03/2015 06:58:47 |
Posted by John Stevenson on 01/03/2015 22:20:16:
Well not really today and don't know how this fits into engineering model or otherwise other than I plan to fit these into a brass grid. What was today was finding them.
Three lumps of ivory 6" x 2" x 1" date stamped May 1926 so perfectly legal in that it's not being sold on.
A few years ago when I was in Oman looking for Job's tomb [ didn't find it ] I bought two sets of chess pieces, one in gold, one in silver [ well plated ] very nice ornate classic pieces.
When I was working at the piano company we held about £250,000 worth of ivory, bought legally over the years but we couldn't use it. This was kept in bonded stores at an inland customs unit. The fact the trade had moved on to plastic at this time and would never have gone back to ivory was a bye the bye. I always wanted a proper chess board and hey ho, we had ebony by the tree trunk and ivory locked away.
Now there are exemptions to using ivory, legally. One is the repair of church organs and by a bit of judicial wangling and bad measurement i finished up with these 3 pieces. However just after I got them I lost them in a house move and whilst sorting a load of boxes out today in the attic they reappeared. The ebony has long gone, used as saw guides for woodworking bandsaws but this is readily available. So I think a nice interlocking 1/8" brass frame with squares of ebony and ivory will set these chess pieces off well and after all these years I can learn to play chess. Interesting to read and see. Its a shame what is being done for those who still demand Ivory but I feel what is being done to Ivory which is stock piled by authorities after the hauls are taken from poachers is even just as bad. What a waste. Chess set looks cool little hard to make it out angle of pic not good. |
25/02/2015 07:31:14 |
Just spent two days de-rusting some old tools. |
22/02/2015 06:11:48 |
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19/01/2015 03:33:37 |
Mechman thats a real nice bit of work
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04/01/2015 22:50:02 |
Posted by Ian S C on 04/01/2015 11:41:54:
Went out to the work shop after lunch, looked at the thermometer outside, 33*C, then the one inside 39*C, gave up on the idea of any work in that. Fire is becoming a real danger, a honey processing plant down south was burnt out yesterday. On the fire danger map, I'm right in the middle of about the biggest red area. Ian S C
I spent the morning in the workshop till it reached 35C and sun was hitting the door way, in for lunch and rest of the day indoors in AC. |
01/01/2015 22:25:43 |
Spent New Years Day afternoon sitting back reading the last 4 issues I have of MEW now awaiting the most recent to arrive in the mail possibly this week. Glad I can read it online before it gets here still prefer sitting back with a cuppa and relaxing. |
Thread: What did you do today? (2014) |
31/12/2014 01:29:31 |
Wishing all a Happy New Year just gone 12.30 lunch time so as we are on day light savings its hard to tell what time it really is. May the new year bring much happiness and hours more in the workshop. |
Thread: Hiking Pole Joiner x2 |
15/12/2014 22:49:01 |
Posted by Ian S C on 15/12/2014 11:06:07:
The pool cue I saw had a joint very similar to the one you have on the walking stick. Ray you better steer clear of parts of town for a while, bit of a worry. Ian S C
Not seen one like that Ian on a pool cue City only head in there now days on special occasions ok so was in thee last month and not far from the excitement of the last 24 hrs. All done and dusted at 2am besides with the area we live in since the 50's its been a league of Nations/Nationalities and has increase so with such as Indian, Afgans, Lebs, Turks, Kiwi's and Fijian all sorts of religions why even the bikies have to squeeze in with us all.
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14/12/2014 20:34:50 |
Thanks Michael and Ian for the link and the laugh. Cold weather in Australia ???? Today is going to reach 34C here in Sydney. Yes we do0 have snow yes it does get down to -10C in some regions unless the owners head back to NZ or maybe Tassie mountain walks where the wind chill cuts through you like an ice princess curse it should all be ok. If my feeble hands can screw them together the younger owners should be able to.........I hope. |
14/12/2014 12:20:43 |
Posted by Bazyle on 14/12/2014 11:20:23:
Don't worry. Drain rods have a far courser thread, more like 6 tpi. You might want to thnk of a way to stiffen the thread so it doesn't undo from the jarring of hitting the ground in use, yet not jamming up. I suggest graphite lubrication from a smokey candle flame as it isn't slippery like vaseline (you wouldn't use oil on a domestic product I hope) yet prevents cold welding. You might consider putting (metric for long term availability) spanner flats on the joint or they will be tempted to get the mole grips out. Show then the old trick of patiently tapping a brass joint to loosen it if jammed.
Bazyle having used the 16tpiUNF its tight and all that would be required once it wears is thread tape or a locking screw through to the relief area above the thread. Even that could undo. I had considered a Bayonet type fitting with a lock screw but for my level of expertise in machining my limited machines and as job is a FREEBIE I opted for the quickest, stable option that the owner was more than happy with. |
14/12/2014 12:12:26 |
Posted by Ian S C on 14/12/2014 10:06:11:
Or a rod for sweeping chimneys. Saw some thing today that reminded me of this thread, a two piece Pool Cue in the local second hand shop. I had a look at it, and it has a 8 mm thread in the brass fitting. I think one of my nephews has a three part pool cue he bought in Brisbane. Ian S C Ian pool cue joiner Link Had been considered by the owner and other willing to do the job but as I pointed out the stress after boring and weakening the strength of the wood centre it would split, shatter break. The use of an outer sheath strengthens even tho I have removed 1/8th to allow reasonable mating of timber and brass. I had a similar joiner as an example to show the owner,
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