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As I do not seem to be the only one with 'strange' screwdrivers, just been out to the workshop to re-check mine.In the whole tray of screwdrivers there are two, at the moment, that are 'sweaty'. The liquid also has an acidy smell,for want of a better word. First pic shows the worst of the two, as removed from tray indicated in second pic. These are, I believe, Steadfast not Stanley as first thought.

I have the same problem with some Stanley Screwdrivers dated from a similar era. These ones have a yellow plastic handle emitting some sort of liquid, but I thought it was my imagination....

Pete

Just wire up a 3 phase circuit with a rotary converter. As long the converter is sized for the largest motor that you wish to run, there is no minimum, unlike a static converter.

Pete

Edited By Spurry on 08/09/2016 10:02:59

You could always add Nord-lock washers to the bolts. I found them on my mower blade M12 retaining bolts. According to the blurb, they are supposed to be good...but time will tell for me.

There are some on EB: 262489261477

Pete

I get on quite well with these cylinders without rental.HTH

Pete

**LINK**

Shaun

Beautiful work if I may say. Welding is superb.

Pete

Good find Graeme. Program works well.

Pete

David

Just turn off the electric to your lathe. Tie a piece of string round the chuck key and put a weight on the end. Insert chuck key into chuck in the 12 o'clock position, and place a small block of wood under the forward pointing jaw of the chuck, the dangle the weight over the edge of the machine.

Although the method of racking the carriage backwards and forwards to cut a slot sounds hard work it really is very economic in materials and time...and you would get what you wanted.

Pete

Michael, I think you owe it to yourself to have a requirement for a larger machine to fit the vice.

Pete

Very neat tool. I wonder how much it costs....?

Pete

I have to agree with Tony. If it is as genuine as you say it is, a small amount of not-so-good paintwork only proves the point. There is nothing worse than a tarted-up finish.

Quite what you have there I'm not sure. If I am correct it looks like you are machining a piece of material on it's right hand side with another similar piece also present. You are moving the table away from you.

If you released that cross-piece holding the piece being machined, which way would your piece go? Answer should be - it will fly out the back, therefore you are climb milling.

There is no problem in not understanding...it's the explainer's fault.

Imagine: If you tried to mill an unfastened piece of material, which way would the material fly? If it would fly away from the cutter... then that is usually called normal milling. However if the cutter pulls the material towards itself then that is climb milling.

You should be able to picture the above without actually attempting to mill loose items. Just try it with a vertical rotating pencil on the edge of a piece of paper....Much Safer.

If you get annoyed with the rental cost, as I did , I have found this outfit very useful.

**LINK**

Pete

The little 4 stroke Honda engines as fitted to pressure washers, generators and such, have a toothed plasticky/rubber timing belt that dunks into the oil in the sump. It's supposed to last the life of the engine, I hope so, as you have to split the crankcase to change it.

Pete

No jokes please about the spare 6 inches!

Don't put ideas their way! With radio and tv you do actually get something for the licence fee. Whether it is worth the charge is a matter of opinion.

With model radio gear, ditto CB, you got *nothing* for the fee. You paid for your own transmitter and your own receiver, so there never was any justification for making you pay.

Pete

Edited By Spurry on 01/02/2016 18:56:45

Best you don't work out how much it is per gallon then. Watch the blood pressure.

Pete

Free. That's nearly as bad as those who advertise something for a reasonable price, then in small print at the bottom - VAT to be added. Grrrh.

Pete

I think that depends on the actual cutting face of the parting tool. The one I use has, for want of a better expression, a hollow centre, bending the swarf inwards on both sides and the swarf comes off in small coils which don't seem to jam up the same, as with a straight-across cutting edge.

If you used a hacksaw like that you would only be using a tooth or two. I have heard of some who use the lathe at slow speed whilst cutting with the hacksaw. *I* could not possibly admit to doing such.

Pete

Edited By Spurry on 30/01/2016 18:57:27