Member postings for Limpet

Theo

I have an older Medding floor standing drill and found them extremely helpful for advice and spares when contacted.

Lionel

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Edited By Limpet on 14/07/2018 15:29:03

Good to know you're up and running again

Lionel

It's sad when pets need to be rescued from some unspeakable fate I have two in my pond that have been blessed with an extra 4 years.

Nick I am surprised a model engineer has been stumped by a bottle opener

Lionel

I learnt very early in life not to trust my dad with any type of tooling. My earliest memory is when he decided to put a light in the outside loo. He took the two wires from the 15amp (round pin) socket in the kitchen twisted them together and put into one side of the new light switch and the two wires from the bulb were twisted together and put in the other side of the switch. It did make a very big bang and put the house in darkness. He tried 4 or 5 times before admitting defeat. It still makes my brother and me laugh.

Lionel

Dave W

I only have a few feet of exposed pipes and they're lagged and like you gravity feed from pond, sieve, bead, eazypod on skimmer, 2 water pumps, 2 air pumps but only 1 UV. The heat exchanger is on the return of the shed c/h circuit (separate zone). As I'm just about to enter retirement I'm seriously looking at 2kW of solar to offset the pond running cost. We use a lot of electricity.

Lionel

The skill to travel backwards in time, partly to see the masters of old and also to give me time to actually finish something.

Lionel

I do my best to not let the pond 4000 gallon(ish) go below 5 degrees which was hard this last winter even in tropical Devon and keep the pumps running all year (although much slower) as I fear the exposed pipework will freeze and crack. Next winter will be easier as it now has a heat exchanger fed from the c/h boiler if it gets too cold, although I dread the cost if I have to use it.

Lionel

NDIY

The water in the pond is continually pumped from the bottom of the pond to the top for the filtration system with a complete water turnover of about a hour, the temp is measured on the return to the pond. I was once told that we don't keep Koi we keep water.

The largest rise in temp was 2.4 degrees C in one day, a bit too much for them really

Lionel

Edited By Limpet on 05/07/2018 17:15:35

I was living at Bovey and went to school in Ashburton. It is indeed a small world.

Lionel

Mark it seems I was just across the road from you in '76 working as a fitter at W. L. Vallance. I have to remember the year well as it was when I got married!!!!!!! Workshop at the moment (well before the rains came) just crept to 26 I am so glad I put the insulation in the roof. My 4000 gallon pond was up to 25. Anyone for boiled Koi

Lionel

And don't forget the high tides for us in South Devon

Lionel

Ignatz 

I have the 12/20 Nylon(ish) spare as I upgraded my Chester Conquest mill to belt drive several years ago. I am quite happy to post to you with the other 2 gears and shaft foc just send me pm with an address if you require them

Lione

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Edited By Limpet on 25/06/2018 16:09:20

I must be exceptionally bad with cars. First lost the car in a multistorey carpark in Bristol (how was I to know you didn't enter on the ground floor) took about an hour to find it. I've also walked home from work after driving in, thought the car was nicked from the drive until SWMBO put me right. And in the late 70 got in my Cortina parked in the high street only to realise as I checked the mirror to pull out that I didn't have fluffy dice hanging from the mirror my proper car was parked two down in the street. Don't you feel so guilty when you realise.

Lionel

Who would have thought it, a supposedly simple question now on page 6. Personally loctited, bonded, stuck, glued etc. doesn't really matter ( I draw the line at nailed though) . Surely as model engineers we are able to assess the correct adhesive to use, (even if we do have several bottles, jars etc on the shelf). I see the additional information of more use to the complete novice that is unaware of the different types, brand names available, but isn't that what the forum is for, for us newbies to ask what may be deemed as stupid questions by some, although I believe if the answer is not known how can it be stupid. Could we not have a 'glues reference' maybe as a sticky post with Web addresses for manufacturers reference data

Just my twopenneth worth

Lionel

Many thanks for the good wishes Neil

Lionel

Well today I got involved with renovating, not on any type of machine we all generally work on but on myself. I had a right knee replacement this morning. Hospital staff excellent what a marvellous job they do caring for us Grumpy old men, can't praise them enough. Any another 3days in hospital then banned from the workshop for 6weeks by the boss.

Lionel

Welcome on board Ron.. Lots of helpful advice to keep you going forward. I'm another from the bottom of Devon

Lionel

Stk. Just to put your mind at rest I received my WM16b from Warco about a week ago, delivered by a very nice man who put as close to the workshop as he could get with the pallet truck. Although they were still waiting for delivery of some of the items purchased on their open day, (still another two weeks to wait). I had to split the mill in half to manhandle (on my own) into the workshop (too many steps for cranes). Just finished cleaning and reassembling now read to cut metal.

When I bought my Chester DB8 a few years ago it was all they could do to leave it on the pavement.

Keep patient

Lionel

We had a new Belling cooker last year and the wife had the same problem so I checked the oven temp and it was about 15degree low. Anyway we called the man in (under warranty) and he reset the thermostat correctly and he said that the ovens were generally set low. All good after that

Lionel

Couldn't agree more. Although I still have 4 1/2 months to retirement at 65 (who's counting?) I have several hobbies and interests and been planning and building up resources, tools, experience in not only model engineering but also my other interests. Although I've mostly enjoyed my working life (we all have bad times) being with my present company for 35 years I feel it's time for some 'me' time. Who knows I may decide to go back to work for a couple of days a week in a couple of years but personally I can't see it happening. Bring it on!

Lionel