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FWIW there is to be an online auction of Marussia equipment with a bit of workshop stuff in there that might suit someone.

... or perhaps you'd like to buy one of the cars (be aware that they don't have engines - they went back to Ferrari ).

But there's woodwork involved

Interesting, Jason .... I actually got an email copy of your 16:48:43 post before you edited it. I didn't think that was supposed to happen. There is a limited time to edit a post and I'd always assumed that emails were sent after the cutoff to avoid confusion.

Jason, I don't want to belabour this too much, but I'm not arguing against Pocketmags per se - just questioning the use of it as an online reader. I use it myself, including buying odd issues (but I read them offline).

And I already had a digital subscription (and hard-copy before that) for years - I just recently lapsed them. While the subscription was extant, I rarely used PM - I found the ME online reader much easier to use (and easier to go to a specific page because you can tell it to "go to page ..." ) but that's probably a matter of personal style. However, if you want to print a page there is no contest. You get a much better quality print from the ME reader than from PM (which also adds an intrusive watermark).

PM has been useful though (to read my back issues) since my subscription lapsed.

You mean, go to the PocketMags site and read them there? Yes, I believe you can but why would anyone want to do that? If you are going to access the Pocketmags version of the mag, it seems much more flexible to install the PocketMags reader (which will download the issues) and read the mag offline (anywhere if you happen to have a laptop, iPad or other portable machine).

Subscribers could always (and still can) read the mag online at the ME website, Pocketmags isn't necessary for that. The only reason it was introduced was in response to people that wanted to be able to read it offline and on-the-go. Moreover by using PocketMags (and downloading to your local machine) you retain access to your subscription copies after the subscription has expired if you don't renew,

Am I missing something? I was under the impression that PocketMags is an offline not online reader and keeps it's (highly encrypted) files locally. The installation I have certainly appears to be that way. So while you might have trouble downloading an issue due to problems at the PocketMags site, any problems in viewing an issue would be local to the user's machine.

Does that mean we won't be able to tell?

Certainly that's the conventional wisdom that's usually dragged out in discussions like this. And it may well work for those with more reading time than reading material.

In my case, the stack (shop-related and unrelated) by my recliner grows ever taller with stuff that I actually do want to read and I'd rather put the time into that than into articles that are basically not of interest in the hopes of gleaning a morsel or two - maybe.

I've noticed before that there seems to be a growing assumption that, if a reader finds one article in the magazine that appeals to him/her, that justifies buying the magazine. Do people really feel this way?

Certainly, if I pick up a magazine (any magazine) on the book-stand, unless there is an article that is seriously a "must-have", I want two or three articles at least that appeal if I'm to purchase it.

FWIW Ray, while I was getting the digital edition, I could print quite happily with both Windows-8 and 8.1 so it does (or can) work with that OS. As I recall, when the mag first loads, you have to click on a page and use the mouse scroll to zoom in a bit before the print icon will appear at the top.

Edit, I was using Firefox for a browser although I also checked it out with IE.

Edited By Bandersnatch on 15/11/2014 23:51:46

Don't take the digital edition any more but as far as I recall it was always at the top of the page being viewed .... at least since they changed to the flash viewer about 4 or 5 years ago.

According to a PM conversation I had with the web-maintenance lady (Katie?) some time ago, that's not completely true, Neil. Apparently, the editor can be configured so that smileys can only be added via the drop-down (thus solving the problem of, for example, quote followed by parenthesis). However users in some other forums here are deathly afraid of mice (presumably they leap up on chairs when they see one). To accommodate them, the editor is configured to insert smileys the old-fashioned way (via keyboard characters) in addition the the drop-down.

I must admit, I thought the same when this thread first started. After all the Brunell Engineering thread could be cited as an example of "outstanding" service.

No 'maybe' about it in my book. My eyes/eyesight are probably the most worthwhile things to spend money on and the thing I can least afford (or want) to penny-pinch.

That may be good for "nuisance-ware" but true malware installs without giving you the option. How likely is it to give you the option to uninstall by a 'gentlemanly' entry in control panel?

In any case, browser exploits removal tools are more likely to be found - if at all - in the add-ons/extensions section of the browser.

See my post in Robin's "Cross Slide Micrometer Wheel" thread (actually mine was from a mini-mill) .... cheap, easy to implement and it's resettable (which I forgot to mention).

No, this was the one I used from LMS along with this spring and the rest of the adaptation was straightforward enough.

Shouldn't that be .03 mm/div ... or more accurately .03175 mm/div .... (3.175/100)? Seems like a pretty gross approximation to me and not particularly useful. Better to work with the machine's native units I would think.

[In practice, the top/cross-slides on the ML7 are 10 tpi  so 2.54 mm/rev]

Granted the production dial is pretty schlokky (what were the real Myford Company thinking of). I found some nice dials from LMS - spare parts for a mini-lathe or mill I think - with 50, very legible, divisions which give 2 thou/div on my ML7 (easily interpolated to .001" ). Easy enough to adapt for the Ml7. I imagine Arc et al would sell similar over there.

For metric dimensions I just convert what I'm aiming for (one conversion) then work in inches.

(edit to remove stupid inadvertent smiley .... again)

Edited By Bandersnatch on 06/11/2014 22:23:04

Guy had a flea. Whenever he put it on his hand and said "jump" it would hop to the other hand. One day, as an experiment, he pulled the wings off the flea, put it on his hand and said "jump". Flea stayed where it was.

He concluded that pulling the wings off a flea makes it go deaf.

There's the rub for almost any trap that you dream up. Not to mention that laws in this respect seem more intent on protecting the transgressors than the transgressed-against.