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Thread: Cleaning ER collets
26/11/2011 10:41:22
You could always try Gun brushes, supplied in various sizes and used for cleaning gun barrels!
I used them all the time for cleaning out oilway drillings in crankshafts, picked them up for not a lot of money from a local gunsmiths shop.
J.

Edited By RJW on 26/11/2011 10:42:02

Thread: Nemmet which mag' Issues?
03/08/2011 14:22:14
About as subtle as a rubber cosh JasonB, but point taken.
However, I must confess to being relieved to see that the editor himself is a human being too ..............

RJW
 
John S, I got fooled with the book cover too, which seems to imply that there will be build info on that engine.
The book was only available online, and being unable to browse it before buying, found it a bit of a disppointment to find it didn't live up to the promise.
it's still a good book for all that, but I'm not sure I'd have bought it otherwise.
 
When you've had a chance to sort through the books, I'd be interested in anything you decide to dispose of .......as long as I can afford it .
I've managed to get hold of half a dozen M.E. mag's with the article so far, but think there must have been a run on this stuff considering how scarce it all is.
 
RJW

Edited By RJW on 03/08/2011 14:22:58

03/08/2011 12:15:54
Thanks Andy, I did download the indexes in the end but haven't opened or run them yet.
I only searched the indexes online, so maybe that's where I cocked up.

Thanks again David, got your message and will be sending funds very shortly.
 
I've tended not to bother subscribing to the digital mag's because of the vagaries of internet access - we spend 5 months of the year in France and only have a crap dial-up connection, so the digital editions would be a non starter for me at a time when I'd have more chance of reading them.
 
John

Edited By RJW on 03/08/2011 12:38:05

03/08/2011 11:22:59
Thanks for that David, I'll take the plans please if they're still available.
John
03/08/2011 10:13:32
 
Help .....................(pretty please) ...........
Can anyone tell me which magazine issues contained the build series for Malcolm Stride's Nemmett 15cc engine please?
I'm being driven to distraction by google only throwing up keyword spam or their interpretation of what they think I'm looking for instead of what I specify, I've run out of variations on my search theme and given up.
 
I know the volumes are 196 & 197 at least, and I've bought a few copies containing parts of the series via eBay, which have yet to arrive.
Trying to trawl google and the ME indexes is an exercise in futility.
The M.E. indexes are great, but I don't think all the articles are indexed, or if they are I've not found a way to find them,

The search facility on here is worthless too, as nothing comes up at all, you can put Nemmett into the search field on this very forum, and despite there being a 'Nemmett' article four lines down on the first page, the search returns 'nothing found', how daft is that!
 
Any help Much appreciated,
 
Many thanks in advance,
John.
P.S. are any more plans for this engine or variants ever likely to be printed?
JW.

Edited By RJW on 03/08/2011 10:14:39

Thread: Washing machine drum bearings
17/07/2011 16:06:02
Done a couple of Indesits and a Creda over the last couple of years.
 
The Creda had cracked the spider supporting the drum, but had a valve problem too, so was scrapped (kept all the good bits and electronics in good hoarder fashion, much to SWIMBO's dismay) .
 
Of the Indesits, one got away with a set of bearings and seals, cost about a tenner all in with postage, and the other had broken the spider, so needed a new spider and hub assembly, cost about £30, both were still good machines so worth doing.
The bearings on them both used rubber shielded types, plus external seals on the bearing housing.
Both of the washers were done and dusted in half a day and back in action again.
 
If you get the full model number off yours and stick it in the search box on eBay, you'll probably turn up scores of hits for bearing kits and spiders etc.
Google UK will also spit out loads of mail order suppliers, some of whom cover a wide range of machines, but look for co.uk websites rather than .com though, otherwise American sites will be in overabundance.
 
Don't hang about though, otherwise your life will be misery until the job's either done, or you've coughed up for a new machine!
 
John
Thread: Gear Depthing Tool
05/04/2011 21:22:36
 
Sorry folks, there seems to be a word limit or something, as my reply won't appear in full,
Will try again later.
John

Edited By RJW on 05/04/2011 21:28:47

Thread: Things we should not do
28/03/2011 21:00:07
One incident I recall from my motor engineering days, prompted by the 'high pressure in small volumes' comments.
 
A couple of apprentices were pratting around in the lube bay one day, with one berk firing off the air powered grease gun at his chum!
Firing this thing off into open air, would send a fine jet of grease a good 20ft!

Unfortunately, he got a bit too close for comfort on one shot, and the high pressure jet of grease caught the other lad's finger slitting it wide open, stuffing a good wodge of the stuff under the skin where it was ruptured!
Immediate hospital treatment needed due to lithium grease getting well embedded in his flesh.
That wound looked very untidy for quite some time!
 
John
 
 
 

Edited By RJW on 28/03/2011 21:00:45

Edited By RJW on 28/03/2011 21:01:13

28/03/2011 20:56:56
Don't get complacent, and Never Ever take your eyes off any moving machinery for a second - especially cutting blades!
And, If you don't need the machine running if you need to move something, Turn it Off!
I speak from scary and very painful recent personal experience.
 
Having ripped down a couple of dozen chestnut spindle blanks on a 12" 3HP table saw, I moved round to the side of the table to pick off the final new blank.
Catching some movement in my peripheral vision, i looked up - it was my wife walking past the open barn door!
For whatever reason (complacency? borne of doing this kind of work for a few decades maybe? ) I carried on picking up the spindle blank and Not Looking where my hand was going - which was actually well to one side of where the blank was sitting!
 
Unfortunately, and God only knows how it happened, because I don't, I shoved my right hand straight into the top side of the 12" TCT cutting blade, which was running at around 3000 RPM.
All I remember of the immediate incident, was a bang and my arm being thrown back behind me, plus a mist of blood spraying everywhere! (which is also unfortunately, what my wife saw)
 
Fortunately the saw guards were down, but the wide kerf on the blade tips had chewed into the end of my right thumb from underneath and up into the nail, from the right nail root to the left side of the tip, bouncing off the bone.
All that was left of the tip was a chunk of nail hanging onto a bit of flesh.
 
I can tell you it was Not a very pleasant sight at all, quite frightening in fact, and the pain was absolutely bloody unbearable for some time!
I got through a Lot of paracodol that first week!.
 
I can no longer feel anything in that thumb tip, and picking up anything small is now difficult, which has virtually screwed me on watch repairs, But, you wouldn't even know I'd pulled that stupid stunt just by looking at the damage.
I do know I was Very damned lucky not to have lost a lot more than I did!.
 
The lesson driven home to me, was that although I'm always very careful with these things (push-sticks always used, hands behind and well clear of the blade, guards in place etc) I didn't Need the saw running at all when that accident happened!
 
John
Thread: Mystery Tools
06/03/2011 15:09:37
Clockmakers' pivoting drills, and the arbours appear to be the type that will fit either a clockmakers' bushing tool similar to the Bergeon bushing set, a staking anvil, or a drilling tailstock attachment
The collars appear to be adjustable depth stops.
Depending how small the drills go, there could be watchmaking drills amongst them, probably pocket rather than wristwatches.
 
If you don't want or need them, I can give them a very appreciative home
 
Best regards
 
John
 

Edited By RJW on 06/03/2011 15:12:06

Thread: Car Boot Sales
05/03/2011 23:18:15
At the annual 'Lions' event last summer, a very nice virtually unused digital rev counter in a good fitted case for a fiver .......... and big old style, (alloy framed) almost unused Black and Decker Workmate ..... ditto, a fiver!
Roll on the next event this summer
John
Thread: Classified advert problems - how to overcome.
28/02/2011 15:42:18
Try clearing the browser cache and cookies, you may be running out of memory reserved for storing web pages, which can cause problems with them loading.

Edited By RJW on 28/02/2011 15:42:58

Thread: Made me chuckle
26/02/2011 21:41:22
Posted by Ian Welford on 26/02/2011 21:10:49:
Seen in butcher in Yorkshire a few months ago " freshly shot yorkshire rabbi"
 
Well it'd be a coshure dish no doubt....
 
 
Nice one!
The 'T' is often 'swallowed' in Yorkshire dialect, maybe he was thinking 'spell as she is spoke'
 
.....unless the butcher was thinking along latin lnes
Thread: Trouble posting to forum!
22/02/2011 23:31:23
Not a dog's chance in H*ll!
I've just stumped up to install Windows 7 to get rid of MS's Vista Travesty, and thankfully, no IE of any format is included in the operating system files.
 
I nearly binned Firefox too, because of the ludicrous amount of CPU percentage the 'plugin container' was using.
Thankfully I found out how to cripple flash animations, and all those ridiculous animated GIF's this and other sites use on all their advertising, quite how epileptics fare with all that annoying crap I've no idea!
I use Comodo Dragon too, very lean and mean.
As for Google Chrome, still buggy and I woudln't trust Google as far as I could spit anyway, which ain't far if I'm honest!
 
John.

Edited By RJW on 22/02/2011 23:32:40

Thread: Made me chuckle
22/02/2011 08:43:13
Or, the warning - 'Contains MILK' .........................
 
My wife couldn't believe it, so she showed me the carton just to make sure she wasn't hallucinating .................. It Really was printed on a 1 litre carton of UHT ........MILK
I kid you not, it was on a Somerfield own brand product!
 
......or the bag of mixed nuts that warns ..................'Contains NUTS' ...........
 
I can see this one going on for a while ........
 
John
 

Thread: Alan Munday's Model Engineers Utilities
16/02/2011 09:29:08
Tony, I don't which operating system the programme was witten to run with, but if it was XP, then you'll need Windows Virtual PC, which is a freebie from Microsoft.
It's a 500 meg file download though.
 
Best regards,
John
 
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/download.aspx
 

Thread: Swage / Pipe Fabrication
22/01/2011 11:26:38
Thanks Neil, have dug out some old photo's of the mini I converted, will scan and upload images later.
Best regards,
John
03/01/2011 14:39:07
Ant, the flange assembly in the photo, looks suspiciously like the turbine outlet / exhaust front pipe for a turbocharger, and the 'Egg' shape formed to accommodate the gasflow from both the turbine outlet and a wastegate valve.
 
My guess for commercial applications, is that a press would be used similar to that used for making brake pipes.
The pipe would be clamped in specially constructed 'Female' split jawed jig, then a similar 'Male' press tool would be pressed into it - either by mechanical or hydraulic means.
Also possible that the flange is made as a separate component, then welded to the pipe end, which would simplify manufacture of the flange and press tools.
 
Back in the late 1970's I was manufacturing turbo systems for automotive applications.
No one other than SAAB or Porsche had a turbo car on the road at that time, so everything had to be hand made, and the turbo's & wastegates sourced from anywhere they could be had.(IHI, RayJay, KKK, etc).
 
Flanges had to be made to suit individual turbo types, and then adapted to fit standard manifolding, or a complete manifold made.
The flanges were generally flame cut from sheet steel (one offs) or cast iron to pattern for quantity, then finished by hand.
Pipe bends were available in various diameters, which then had to be shaped to the flanges similar to that shown above.
Generally, I just got the pipe end red hot, and hand beat the pipe end into shape to suit the flange, then when happy with the shape, trim the end with a grinder and electric (stick) welded together.
I never had one come apart, and those things used to get white hot on the dyno!
 
I'll upload some photo's of a Porsche 911 I did in 1980, also have some of a Mini 1100 Special, Landrover and other gear somewhere.! (long time before digicam's unfortunately)!
 
Best regards
 
John
 
Thread: Late delivery of magazines due to adverse weather
03/01/2011 12:00:03
I buy both M.E and MEW from a local town centre newsagency, the mag's always arrive when due, even during the recent bad weather, and think I will continue doing so judging by the subscription based delivery And, even though not a postal problem, the digital issue access hassles.
 
I subscribe to an IT magazine (fortnightly) and a (Monthly) Classic Car publication, without exception these have both arrived bang on time And via Royal Mail all through the bad weather.
We have also had several packages delivered by Royal Mail from both eBay sellers and Amazon, and not one has gone astray, although a few letters took about 7 days to arrive - by contrast, one from France took just 3 days! (although as some unfortunate souls would disagree that all French letters are so reliable)
 
So, from where I sit, the problem is Not all at the door of Royal Mail !
 
Personally I'd like to Thank David for allowing this thread to remain, as I'm sure many others - like me wavering on buying a subscription, will now be thinking twice until the publishers get their house in order.
I had the option of a subscription to M.E rather than the Classic Car mag (SWIMBO's annual treat for me), but I don't wan the 'agg' of chasing poor suppliers and missing issues that are no longer in stock, I stuck with what I know and what works.
 
Best regards
 
John
 
 
 
 
 

Thread: The Case for Clocks
30/12/2010 15:42:51
Hi Norman,
 
It was quite a while ago now, (early 1990's) so I can't recall the exact size, but around 24" x 12" x 12".
It was made to case up a Pocher 1/8th scale model with room to spare, and checking on the web, that model comes up as 20" x 10" x 6", so probably not far out for the case.
 
When soldered up, the glass, although only 3mm, made quite a substantial and solid construction.
 
The solder gun i used was a Weller instant heat job with 2x heat settings, (remembered after I posted my last reply), and the solder, was fairly fine multicore stuff - I pulled off lengths of it to make it easier to manpulate.

Best regards,

John
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