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Thread: Acceptable runout
26/03/2011 18:49:17
NOOOOOOOO!!!!
Quit while you're ahead - it'll just distort all the hard work you've put in for very little practical benefit.
 
And you shouldn't be smoking cigarettes at your lathe - a cigar would be much more the order of celebration for a job well done.
 
Martin.
26/03/2011 15:59:22
I think most people would class ~ 0.0015 mm, or 60 millionths of an inch radial deviation from centre as a success.
Merely leaning on the cross slide while checking for runout will show far greater movement than this.
 
 
Martin.
Thread: Amateurs
24/03/2011 19:36:19
He's got this place buzzin' !!
 
Martin.
24/03/2011 09:08:01
Donald.
 
Taking your example of there being only 1 correct way to turn a Morse taper.
 
Surely the correct way would be to use a Taper Turning Attachment.
 
This is my preferred method, given that if more than 1 item needs to be made, then repeatability of the taper angle can not be guaranteed between centres, simply because each blank will vary in length and so will the depth of it's centres.
 
Personally, I find the 'test bar' method of resetting the tailstock to be unreliable for close accuracy and find that a test cut on some scrap to be a much better way of returning to a parallel setting.
 
 
Martin.
 
 
23/03/2011 19:16:03
Welcome aboard, Donald!
 
Martin.
Thread: Boxford cross slide dial grub screws
22/03/2011 11:27:53
I'm not at my machine at the moment, but I think it should have either a couple of brass slugs or ball bearings in there.
 
 
Martin.
 
 
Thread: The boat that Guy built
20/03/2011 11:34:11
Posted by John Stevenson on 20/03/2011 11:27:56:
Love here or hate her she was the only person who stood up to the unions.
 
I'd hate to think of where we would be today if we had the unions AND Health and Safety.
 
John S.
 
 
 
John.
Could it be any worse?
 
Martin.
20/03/2011 11:28:17
Hi Terry.
 
I'm not trying to speak on behalf of Graham, but I think he was highlighting just how much he despises Mrs Thatcher's actions during the 80's, by comparing his feelings against yours.
 
If that's the case then it's perhaps an example of where a suitable Emoticon could have been used to good effect.
 
It's just my view, but I hope that it makes some sense.
 
 
Martin.
19/03/2011 00:22:16
For those that remember them, some of the BBC's Horizon and Channel 4's Equinox documentaries made for excellent viewing.


Martin.

18/03/2011 19:37:54
There also seems to be a belief with many of the programme makers that if we're not singing, dancing, or laughing, then we can't be having fun or enjoying ourselves.
 
I've also noticed the 'fear' of the producers of anyone having a meaty chat about things mechanical as it's always done in a jokey way, as if it's too painful for the viewer otherwise.
 
It is interesting to see how they're trying to remind the population of our manufacturing past and I wonder if those in charge are hinting at what we should be doing now, with programmes like this, along with the very interesting documentory Britain At Work, which is presented quite nicely by Kirsty Young. After all, now it's so expensive to buy a degree, many school leavers may need to go back into manufacturing whatever we can.
 
 
Martin.
Thread: Mystery Tools
06/03/2011 13:22:00
It's hard to tell for sure, but the last pic looks like it could be a Spade Drill.
 
Martin.
Thread: Trouble posting to forum!
23/02/2011 00:13:23
Peter.
I'm using Windows 7 along with Internet Explorer 9 (release candidate) and am really quite pleased with the combination.
I'm not a 'fan boy' of Microsoft, but I appreciate the free lifetime support and updates of their operating systems, as well as their other totally free stuff, such as Security Essentials, which is a virus/spyware protection application and I'm finding it to be as effective as anything else available, without slowing the system.
 
I started a thread about what I consider to be the deficiencies of this site with regard to things like attachments of files and pictures etc.
 
 
 
Martin.

Edited By blowlamp on 23/02/2011 00:14:18

Thread: Moving photos between albums
02/02/2011 16:21:05
I can't help with your query, but just in case you didn't know, you should take care if you have previous forum posts with pictures that reference back to your album(s) here. Moving pictures from an album will cause that picture to be erased from your post too.
 
Martin.
Thread: Help Please
30/01/2011 15:10:07
+1 for Super Glue. It's great for split finger nails when the fracture goes down to that bit that really hurts and you keep catching it on clothes and stuff.
 
 
Martin.

Edited By blowlamp on 30/01/2011 15:10:21

Edited By blowlamp on 30/01/2011 15:10:51

Thread: Time for new forum software.
29/01/2011 14:59:59
My point is that the lack of facilities here, coupled with the faults in formatting are largely not issues at other webites that I visit. Also, I believe IE9 will become the next standard - whether we like it or not - in the same way the other IEx's have been in the past.
 
Martin.
29/01/2011 14:27:26
I'm using the beta version of Internet Explorer 9 so some of my issues could be related to that, but put bluntly, the forum software here is just about as bad as it gets.
There's no way to include pictures in a post without creating an album and linking to it. If you then remove that picture from the album, the picture disappears from your forum post, which just looks sad .
There are no attachment facilities either, so you can't help people with things like their software or drawing problems.
Formatting always messes up for me after posting with Line Feeds and Spaces being randomly removed etc.
Advertisements quite often cover postings making them unreadable.
You can't see who else is online.
It's just way behind the rest, where all the above comes as standard.
 
Martin.
Thread: Watch manufaturing
25/01/2011 15:53:31
You could have a go at making your own like this fella does.
 
 
Martin.
Thread: C A D for Mac
22/01/2011 17:24:53
Downloads of ViaCAD, suitable for both Mac and PC, can now be had from here http://www.punchcadlabs.com/
Martin.
Thread: Parting off on Myford lathes
22/01/2011 00:57:50
Terry.
To answer your last posts.
 
"If you didn't intend to compare the two why use the comparison?"
I didn't compare drilling with parting-off. I simply used drilling as an easily verifiable example of the effect of chip crowding i.e., the drill bit stops turning when jammed with swarf.
"It seems disingenuous to me."
Read the post again and you should see that it isn't.

"I'm sorry but so called 'chip crowding' takes place over a relatively long period of the process (several seconds) "
Really, so why does it catch out so many people and result in broken tooling and damaged work?

"I'm surprised that you are not aware of this so called phenomenon happening."
I am, I was the one that mentioned it first.
 
"By the way, if chips are jamming so firmly, how come they can simply 'fall out' when a rear toolpost is used, by the simple effect of gravity?"
The majority of them fall out of the way because there is no parting-off blade underneath them to block their exit.
When compared to a front mounted parting-off tool setup, it's obvious that swarf will rest upon the upper surface of the blade by the effect of gravity and by that same effect, along with vibration, the smaller particles can tend to collect in any gaps that are present, thus magnifying the chances of a log-jam style cram-up.
 
"As to your last point - with all due respects, 15 to 20mm depth of HSS parting tool, which is the normal size as most engineers are aware, I assumed that someone as perceptive as yourself would understand that without it having to be explained."
Well you wrote 15 to 20 mm wide and knowing what a stickler you are in your writing, I took you at your word. You made a straightforward mistake, but instead of correcting it, you're trying to put me on the spot for asking if what you wrote, was what you really mean to say - now that's disingenuous.

Martin.

Edited By blowlamp on 22/01/2011 00:58:54

21/01/2011 17:49:49
Hi Terry.
Just to clarify the position. My last post was only intended to reinforce my point about the effect chip crowding can have with regard to it's catastrophic consequences, rather than be a direct comparision with parting-off in the lathe.
I don't quite follow yourpoint about seeing and removing chip crowding from the groove, because my experience (in the dim and distant past of course) is it's pretty well over by then
WOW!! Is that a 15-20mm wide parting-off tool you mention towards the end
Martin.
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