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HI Dan

You can download Solidworks eDrawing viewer.

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Cyril

The second link I posted above has a download for solidwork files

Hi

A quick search gave the following

Industrial Scissor Lift Table

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or a home built one.

http://imgur.com/a/7RW0n

Cyril

Edited By Cyril Bonnett on 17/11/2016 21:59:35

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Dangerous stuff for anyone not used to handling chemicals.

Steel into alloy! Best try heating them with a large soldering iron.

My motorcycle rear disk's six bolts proved impossible to remove, in the end a local company bored them out and put inserts in, Loctite, salt, alloy and steel all got together to make sure the bolts were really tight

Some drain cleaners are over 90% sulphuric acid! just need to be over 21 to purchase it and you can then leave it under the sink till you need it!!! Who needs terror attacks when that's lurking under the sink.

Google have most of Popular Mechanics online some going back into the 19th century!

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Free to search, be nice if the first copies of ME we digitised and put online.

Just mind and not try some of the early electrical articles.

Cyril

Our foreman, teaching two of us youngsters how to silver solder pushed his flat cap up with the hand holding the torch, Robert said " did you burn your head"  with a scowl the foreman said "WATCH" so we shut up and he finished the lesson.

Next day sitting down to tea break, five of us in the engineers shop, old Willie say's as the foreman takes his flat cap off, " what you done to your head" it was covered with a large piece of lint! with his famous harmless scowl he said "burnt it"

Be careful.

Edited By Cyril Bonnett on 14/10/2016 19:14:22

Edited By Cyril Bonnett on 14/10/2016 19:16:13

The update to windows broke Flight simulator X , so I finally got around to have a go at fixing it and stuck the disks in and reinstalled it, Fine worked okay, following night switched notebook on and whoa a blue screen announcing "Error Code: 0xc0000034 in Windows 10 - Boot Configuration Data file missing required information"

Mmm tried to repair windows which threw up 'couldn't continue' so out comes my pen drive with a live copy of Linux and have a look at the file system, both disks were unmounted. A quick look on the net and there have been loads of people suffering the same or very similar problem's.

Most suggested a clean install of Windows 10 and just accept the loss of data. I removed the SSD drive which is just used as a cache, copied all the data from the C disk using the live Linux to another external drive and then attempted to fix the laptop, I did succeed to get it working but found that the flight sim folder seemed to have disappeared along with the boot configuration files.

But it worked! but much slower, before it booted up in about 30 seconds, with the fix it took up to two minutes or longer and started randomly with either of the two accounts I had on it.

Then last Saturday evening, as many others have reported the fix failed and up came the BCD error again.

I then reformatted both drives and reloaded windows.

The godsend is live Linux, I once 'rescued' a former employers computer with Linux after he loaded a dodgy 'free' office program! I then taught him how to make backups as he had all his business on one hard drive with no backups!

Microsoft have seen the success of Google and are trying to turn their operating system into something along the lines of android that along with the drive to control what you can load onto your computer, my HP notebook has windows 8.1 embedded in the bios!

My old dell laptop runs Linux and has done so for a long time without any problems.

I note that our latest world beater super hospital still shows Windows XP Professional on its computer screens!!!!

Edited By Cyril Bonnett on 14/10/2016 19:03:01

I have a Hegner scroll saw and a small band saw, the Hegner does cut metal, I've cut 1/4 mild steel on it very slowly but I use it mainly for wood. the band saw I use for wood and sheet metal.

Try living in the far North of Scotland, I can get delivers from Cornwall ( 4 wheels) for £35 two day delivery! but Inverness 75 miles away want an arm and a leg for most things. Must say that Royal Mail do sometimes astound me, a motorcycle tyre from the midlands ordered at three o'clock on a Friday afternoon saw it swinging on the postman,s shoulder coming up the path at midday the next day.

America two days, Hong Kong four days, London twenty seven days.

Best one was a free CD from Microsoft in America, delivered to Stornoway, taken back to Glasgow, both times past my front door and then back to my local post office where I was asked for £15 because the post office had opened it to inspect the contents, needless to say I declined the 'free' CD.

How viable is producing energy by his method, the taxpayer has been funding so called research into producing energy this way for years with accessing taxpayer's money an industry in itself.

Many of these funded companies have produced a very nice income for a few and go into liquidation all the time, if it IS viable then why isn't the electricity industry ploughing some of their huge profits into these 'wave machines' or do they see them as waving goodbye to a small fortune. This latest one will power 270 house for a year at a cost of £4 million!

The Scottish Government rescued the failed company Pelamis less than a year after they received a £4.5 million funding package, rescued and taken under the wing of Highland Enterprise to the tune of £14 million a year 'ongong'.

A few years ago we looked at some local estate river 'hydro' systems, some from the early 20th century and all had suffered from lack of maintenance mainly because of the cost of labour. The biggest problem though was silting up, one hard winter's downpour and the turbines were out of action, from fine silt to some rocks the size of a 45 gallon drum and bigger. From our house we can hear the boulders in the river rumbling on wild wet winter days! I can vouch that living in a modern house with no electricity and the water pipes frozen isn't fun!

One of the most impressive looking was on Blackmount estate, but like the others it was silted up and abandoned long ago, electricity on a pole is cheaper.

This 'thread' shows one of the problems that we all have today, ask a question and the answers and others problems, ideas and experiences go on for days, nearly 9 in this case, JS's images of his shelves loaded with defunct or not used equipment looks much like a case of 'throwing' money at a problem which I seems is typically of today's society from government down to the garden shed.

A big problem today when it comes to using computers is the amount of commercialisation that has crept into everything that involves them, even a simple search for information ends up with reams of useless advertising, advertising that is making someone somewhere money.

Linux may be 'free' but the android operating system is based on it, so there is now big 'money' to be made from it.

While forums do supply good advise, do help in many ways, sitting reading through them takes time and energy, time and energy that is better spent doing something more constructive!

Modern day developers rely on modern day users, if their idea works they are quid's in, if it doesn't then like John and others you are out of pocket with shelves stacked high and the developer moves on to another 'idea'. Crowd funding is the ultimate 'makers' world, letting some else take the risk.

The military petrol stove mention by Rick was basically the same cooking stove we cooked our meals on our tanks and ferrets well into the late 1970's.

On exercises our cooks delighted us with their fiery early misty morning displays of petrol vapour lighting up the ground around their cooking trenches with the British army No1 burners, brave men.

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I still use a optimus petrol stove from the early 70's

Cyril

Edited By Cyril Bonnett on 07/09/2016 23:39:50

Expansion tank for £30 from Wiltshire delivered free in two and a half days to the wild west highlands of Scotland, Royal Mail, local plumber told me they would charge £60 to £70, nice to have honest friends.

Remember buyer beware.

Ban HGV's between 1 am and 11pm.

Allan

I feel the same way, in fact I feel that I am subsidising these 'free' gifts and myself have thought about cancelling and renewing every 6 months.

Cyril

Anyone tried this for Aluminium

http://www.aptcommercialchemicals.co.uk/aluminium-cleaner-2

Edited By Cyril Bonnett on 26/07/2016 22:51:01

As Flying Fifer says vinegar removes rust, I have used the cheapest I could find to clean mild steel/nuts and bolts , 12p a litre, worked a treat but took a few days. Amazing to see how quickly the surface starts to rust again though.

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