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Been quoted £25.0 + VAT + P&P Tracey tools

£30.0 + VAT + P&P from another supplier.

Remembered CTC

Just ordered two 1/16th BSP taps + insured air mail from Hong Kong for $13.49 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can wait the seven days it usually takes to come half way round the world

Hi. roy.

Their on-line catalogue doesn't list any 1/16'' BSP taps or dies, but I've sent them an e-mail so I should know on Monday, thanks for the info.

Doe's anyone know of a supplier who stocks 1/16th BSP taps and dies, as an on-line search hasn't produced anything smaller than 1/8th having just bought five elbows that are threaded 1/16th BSP I really to able to screw one end of each elbow into different parts of a crank case in order to produce a lubrication system. Thanks in anticipation.

Why not use free cutting Bronze, have a word with Viv at Milton Keynes Metals

Hi. Jason.

You've written, probably better than I ever could , a post that I've been thinking about contributing to this very sad and sorry mess, which brings little credit to the hobby we all supposedly enjoy and to the forum to which we contribute. I'm a member of several other forums, which deal with different aspects of sea angling. Not once can I remember anything other than friendly advice and chat being posted. Some model engineers must view their hobby as a higher calling than the most popular past time in the country and therefore more entitled to adopt a superior attitude to those who, for what ever reason cannot expresses themselves eloquently, or spell every word in the English language correctly, making the posting and the views expressed irrelevant and the writer a lesser human being. I haven't read the article that started this moral crusade, as my subscription to ME lapsed several months ago and I find MEW more relevant to my own interests. Nobody has really addressed the feelings of this lad, which as I understand it, isn't responsible for writting the piece in the first place, but a number of his elders and betters feel its their duty to judge and pass comment on him and his parents life style. The politics of envy are not very pretty. I await the inevitable flack this post will generate amongst my better educated fellow engineers. This post was compiled with the aid of the SCAYT spell checker

Edited By mick on 20/10/2012 09:41:09

Edited By mick on 20/10/2012 09:41:42

I assume you have used the zero button? When zeroing any micrometer the anvil faces must be completely clean. Place a thin piece of paper between the anvils and close them together using only ratchet pressure, then pull the paper out, the mic should read zero when closed with ratchet pressure, this is the point where you must zero a digital micrometer. If a digital mic is still not zeroing properly then try cleaning the contact face of the battery, or replacing it with a new one.

Hi. Ian

Probably explains why I failed my GCSE history

The kettle, without it Watt wouldn't have invented the steam engine, or given engineers the means to make hot tea to help ponder the next big mechanical engineering problem.

8ft x 12ft but I call it home. Friends always welcome, relations strictly by appointment.

When I was involved with the manufacture of light fittings the lengths of threaded tube were known as "all thread" which is M10 x1.0

Hi. Hansrudolf.

I take comfort from knowing that you still find time to read my ramblings. Just a couple of things by way of defence and explanation. The reason I ramble on, is not for financial gain, although being retired it comes in useful, but to pass on what knowledge and experience I have gained from a working lifetime in mechanical engineering, hopefully in not too dry a way, which from the majority of feed back that reaches me, readers find useful. As for TiAIN appearing in the MEW next to the photos of milling cutters, there's no denying that it does, only on this occasion I didn't put it there.

Regards.

Mick

Got a decent fishing tackle bag there at the start of the year, most of the hinged plactic tackle trays it had are now used to store all my BA taps, dies and fixings. My wife sometimes buys food there as well!!

Thanks Martin, I've now bought 4 pins that are 0.062'' too big at the large diameter and a inch and a half too long, but nothing a 6'' angle grinder won't sort out once fitted.

Neil.

Sorry I misunderstood your first post, all taper pins are to a BS of 0.250'' per foot, so it doesn't matter how long the pin is it will fit the entire bore over its length, with the remainder sticking out of the other end, so if your prepared to part with one of your longer pins, please e-mail me and I promise to give it a good home.

Mick

Always happy to instigate a lively discussion, especially if the shaping machine is involved, but back to my original question doe's anyone know of a supplier of said taper pins, where I wouldn't have to buy a couple of hundred.

Cheers.

Mick

Hi. Neil.

Thanks for the offer, but your pin wouldn't be locating in the small end of bore.

Regards.

Mick

Clapper boxes are always pivoted on a taper pin, the bore through the tool slide and clapper box is 1deg included, which will ensure smooth operation without any movement around a parallel pin, which might be transmitted to the work surface via the tool bit.

You've never let me down so far, so here's another, doe's anyone know question.

Doe's anyone know where I can source one taper pin 2.750'' long by 0.350 at the large end, its for a clapper box pivot pin, which has to be better that the coach bolt that was acting as a pivot when I bought it.

Picture of the cleaned up and repaired tool slide.

This is the first attempt at posting photos, so please forgive the presentatiom.

The first is the repair to the tool slide casting.

The second is the two pieces centre drilled to act as a key for the bond.

Next, after 24 hours the bonded casting is pinned with 1/8th sliver steel secured with bearing lock

Last, the new repair.

Edited By David Clark 1 on 10/09/2012 10:18:47

Edited By David Clark 1 on 10/09/2012 10:19:44

Thanks for all the input, think I'll try the easy option first and fall back on the welding if the bonding and pinning fails.

Mick