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I think you will find that the Amadeal also uses brushless now. They too have a pretty good reputation and keep spares. I think some of the smaller metric machines come with screw cutting indicators, if so this for some reason seems to be unique. I have no connection with them but have bought tooling via ebay, Harry something or the other on there. Like Arc he seems to try to get decent stuff at reasonable prices.

John

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Anyone who runs a Linux desktop probably does. Some flavours of desktop aka the windows bits use QT to handle the graphics plus other functional things and others use GTK. Both sort of look after the lower level functional aspects relating to desktops.

John

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Edited By John W1 on 10/12/2015 10:23:04

Your problem - the black bar initial position that I and others have mentioned. It corrects itself for us but it seems it doesn't for you. Looks like it only repositions once due to the caching.

The best explanation is that for some reason your machine isn't keeping up or ignoring part of the html. I have something similar happen at times when my isp is crawling - going unbelievably slow. The effects on web pages such as ebay are pretty extreme though, like no graphics just links. This site for me always loads as it's pretty simple. Most forums are. All in fact as far as I am aware. Browsers are capable of incomplete loads given a reason.

Reading about Mint suggests it's added an interface to make newer GTK graphics convert to older versions. Be interesting to see how long that approach lasts. Similar things have happened elsewhere. KDE went QT4 and Gnome went to a similar arrangement via GTK. All sorts of problems with both. Both are now pretty stable, pity KDE is going QT5 as it will probably be another rats nest for a while. As far as KDE4 and Gnome3 go there isn't really any need to do what Mint does any more.

You might be better of switching to XFCE as that fully supports GTK+3 now and has done for a while. LXDE might be another option and probably has better support.

KDE4 is pretty fast and light weight providing the graphics bells as whistles are turned off but even that aspect isn't as bad as it was. I'd guess Gnome is the same now.

I detect more I've never done anything else on this thread. Addblockers There isn't much need for them these days really. All people will see is adds that are based around what they have been looking at on the web. Fringe pseudo black areas on the web are different but they are good places to get ones machine hacked firewall or not. There is too much software using the web these days with who knows how many holes in it. Lots of free closed source applications will generally give people something they don't really want as well as what it's supposed to do - more of a problem for windows users.

I did use firefox but Google "bless" 'em caused a lot of browsers problems via Chrome so they all started rewrites and the initial Firefox offering was crap. It gained popularity initially as it offered tabbed browsing. Linux has had that for an awfully long time. Firefox doesn't really offer anything over others now and bookmarks can be imported into others. Opera on Linux still seems to have problems for me. This is probably down to a need to update my opensuse. The opera rpm on their site hasn't updated for ages.

Edit -  I just found that Chromium, I'm using that now just wont run java script graphics and can't do it at all. Seems to be down to google.

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Edited By John W1 on 09/12/2015 12:38:17

I would agree about the if you don't know etc

What I would probably do is disconnect the leads to the heating element - the rather large ones - being very careful with what I did with them - whoops - easy to be careful on this one, undo the screws on the board as that is where the power is coming from to the heater. Then see if it still trips the breaker. If it doesn't the problem is with the heater which looks to be replaceable. Search make type spares. It probably will still trip but a spare board may be available.

Have to say though that I have made assumptions about what I can see in the photo.

John

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Thanks Brian. It gives me some idea of the power needed. Maybe a mod could edit Dore Westbury into the tittle of this thread.

This is how the column lift is handled on mine. 7" dia hand wheel on the side.

As shown there is around 5" table to spindle. I'd guess I can increase that to a foot or more. I'd say about 15".

When I bought the machine it was on a floor mounted cabinet that was in any case a bit too low for me. I set to with the angle grinder and just kept the 2 drawers. The above is the view drawers removed. I had great fun getting the machine 4ft up from the floor to sit on top of them. Lifting bits wasn't a problem but reaching out with some of them really was.

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Also this in relationship to pop ups. In all browsers I am aware of

Chromium not Chrome, it's for runner so Chrome will be similar.

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What pop up's ? Apart from dodgy sites that need some care when visited anyway no one uses them.

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How powerful a motor and what gearing, rpm etc Brian. I have often thought about doing that as it's half done on mine. There is a hand wheel sticking out of the side. It drives a screw jack via a bevel gear.

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My Mk1 DW is ok too. 0.010 one way and around 0.015 with a slight clunk at the moment the other way. If you look under the table on the left side you will see the nut and it's retaining screws hence my clunk, they have worked loose some how.

When you check for back lash make sure that the handles plus dials are not moving and causing most of it. I've never had to look at them but assume that this is adjustable It might also be a good idea to check for loose lead screw nuts.

I haven't much space so the ability to machine over most of a 6 1/2" by 14" surface is ideal for me. Even further by moving the head around. The column in my view lacks rigidity but it gets away with it by the shear weight of the other parts.

I bought mine of some one that didn't rate it at all. End milling with a small blunt 2 flute slot drill and worse still with the work held in a vice that just wasn't rigid enough. The slides were also way too loose and I suspect didn't have a sensible grade of oil on them. I need to set mine up and give it a thorough oil again so I will undo the feed handle carriers and wind out the lead screws. Then lubricate well by pushing the slides by hand and adjusting the gibs so that I can feel a slight resistance to movement and no binding. Sometime they can be marginally tight and suddenly go very stiff as they are slid about. It isn't a 5min job and can take longer but is well worth doing especially on smaller machines.

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This is why I don't make much use of firefox. I use matrix type colour management and this is what comes up on the screen as it doesn't check for colour management correctly.

Things might look like that given LSD.

Apart from that it works on here but I did notice that text in a black bar appeared low down on the home page and then bounced up to the correct place. Nothing noticeable on the log in.

I have it's fonts set as follows.

Under the true type button on content in properties. I assume allow pages to choose is essential. Makes no difference if i uncheck it here. This time I noticed that both of the 2 top coloured text bars on the home page move about after loading for the first time. I'd guess caching prevents it happening on refreshes. This doesn't happen on any of my other browsers or if it does it's too quick for me to notice.

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Rather than dual boot it's better to use a live cd or boot from a usb stick Katy. Especially for your purposes.

You will find instructions for creating either on the web. Live CD's were available for all distro's but for some reason most now seem to prefer people creating them for themselves especially for from a USB stick. There are comprehensive instructions around. Just google boot mint from a live cd or usb stick.

You'll probably find that your laptop works a lot more quickly too. BigAl best tell you which desktop he is using. Linux is organised that way. Windows has a kernel and dos an windows sit on that for the users. Linux has a kernel and several different windowsy desktops that can sit on it plus ugggg BASH instead of dos. BigAl's desktop might be the problem. Many Linux users use KDE or Gnome- that one is the standard one on Ubuntu which currently probably has the most users.

Given how Linux systems are put together it's pretty amazing they work at all but underneath there are what might be called standards for providing graphics for instance so the desktops are generally driven the same way but look different and have differing facilities. I'd guess by it's nature that the ones for Mint are fairly light weight.

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There a a lot of free GPL and other forum software about Neil as shown here

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Some offer conversion scripts for porting from others. I'm sure some forums use some of the GPL ones.

The only complaints I have about this forum are. Can't cut and paste and have to use the browser buttons. Unique in my experience. If I decide to include a photo while posting it has to be in my album before I start the post. Add it to an album and it doesn't show unless I restart the post. The forum isn't Opera friendly. Being fair the version I am using is rather old. They are doing a complete rewrite which I will be able to use at some point. Opera isn't everybody's cup of tea but I collect a lot of bookmarks and find it the best for that. It might just need a java update.

One factor that I find particularly irritating is sending messages as the forum doesn't act as middle man masking either ends email address from the other unless they choose to do so by actually sending it in a message. The problem with supplying it directly is that there are lots of insecure PC's out there that have managed to install data mining software some how or the other. The net effect for some one is that they start getting spam as their email address has been obtained from the other persons machine. I don't get much spam other than blips when I have communicated with some one. None off here yet but it happens with monotonous regularity.

As I know some people are interested in photography here is one perfect forum as far as I am aware. Useful and helpful too.

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They use tinypic.com for image storage. Might be of interest.

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Mostly concerning the UK but some might work elsewhere.

If it's just a condensation problem - effectively dew in other words a tube heater should keep the lathe above the dew point. They are available from circa 80 to 200w and are often used in green houses and places like that. The best place to put them would be in the cabinet under the lathe. Electrician's supply factors usually stock them and they are pretty cheap to try. They can be used to keep the chill of things too.

I used to work in a cold garage. The best way I found of keeping me warm was a duck board to stand on - easy to make and very effective plus a radiant heater. The type that have a long fairly narrow reflector, a grill and the element in a glass tube. I did try a fan heater but it used more power and took a lot longer to keep me warm.

Where we lived previously I had a wooden shed. No lathe etc but lots of woodworking tools etc and no garden stuff. The people who built the shed lined it with builders paper. Sort of waxed paper. I didn't have any problems at all in that one. It was fixed under the laths that held the ship lap panels together. The outside was given a good coat of preservative, the kill all kind. There are all sorts of things a shed could be lined with - even on top of the laths, the gap would help but a bit of ventilation from the outside into the gap might be a good idea.

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Noticing the comment about fonts I'm pretty sure I have MS fonts installed by default. Mint users could follow this.

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The only font problem I have is the big high res screen one.They tend to come out a little small but are manageable. I did think about going even bigger and 4K for Xmas until I looked at the dpi and probable scaling.

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I don't use mine much at all. On the other hand I came across a Myford owner that made and sold model aeroplane engines. He used it a lot. Jigs built onto the end of morse taper arbours.

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I've tried other Linux distro's at times and have always gone back to OpenSuse. Time and time again they have offered the most stable distro available long before others that are easy to install. Fairly brain and pain free. Their user forum offers excellent support. I've probably been using it for at least 18 years now. I did use a VM and dual booting with windows for a while, maybe for the first 2 years. I am a bit KDE biased but had a lot less trouble with 4 than many others and suspect the same will be true of 5. I'm also one of those people who have little interest in the shell and try and do everything from the desktop. I've used too many shells to be bothered to pick up another one. Bash is one of the types I dislike anyway.

I don't run cutting edge except for a few applications that I obtain from the OpenSuse build service for a one click install or assemble them myself. OpenSuse covers cutting edge too if people want it. They call it TumbleWeed.

AddBlockers? I recently read an article concerning the tracking facilities built into modern web browsers. It's been extended in recent years probably as it was possible to do similar things early on. The days of pop ups and people remotely taking over some aspects of the desktop via java seem to be over unless people visit dubious fringe site such as the porno area. Java script is more secure now anyway. So why bother. The tracking aspect is annoying but there. Most browsers now offer incognito browsing. The net effect of that is that adds will still appear but they wont relate to things that tracking shows you to be interested in. The server still has your ip address anyway. Mess with the adds on some sites and it wont work correctly as they depend on the income from them. This site for instance may well gain extra income if people use it as a route to going to Arc or any of the others that advertise on here providing they use the add to go to the site. Maybe yet more income if they buy after following the link. They will also get income for displaying the add. This is life folks so may as well put up with it. It's also not to difficult to mess it all up for them either. At a trivial level in that direction there is no need to continuously use one browser. One can be used for one thing and another for other purposes.

John

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Out of curiosity Neil what forum software do you use ? Or is it some ones diy job?

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I just ran ebay.co.uk through and far more errors than the page this thread is on has. Snap for google, OpenSuseOrg and HP.

Then to just prove the point Microsoft.com. Error after error after error.

Like it says at the top of the page "This tool is an ongoing experiment in better HTML checking, and its behavior remains subject to change"

In other words it might just do the job one day but given the complexity of the job it's trying to do that is rather doubtful.

I will admit that there are some rather odd things about the software that drives this forum but I'm pretty sure that the problem that started this thread could be fixed by doing what I suggested. It's one of the few down sides related to running Linux plus what ever desktop is being used - that area and keeping it up to date is often the cause of all sorts of problems. Linux itself sometimes has some oddities but they are rare and usually caused by things the distro people choose to use have done to it. Free adbockers are best avoided if it comes with say a paid for virus checker it's probably ok. Lots of sites wont function correctly when they are active anyway.

The forum even function correctly with a rather dated version of Konqueror.

John

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Edited By John W1 on 06/12/2015 23:30:12

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Edited By John W1 on 06/12/2015 23:40:04

One of Myfordboys video's shows him cutting 1/4 steel neatly with one of these, building a furnace series.

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I would have thought it would handle a good deal more on aluminium with the correct blade.

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No problem with Linux and Chromium here

I did try an add blocker once but had several odd problems.

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