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Member postings for Martin 100

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Thread: Arc Euro Updating Website
02/02/2016 12:41:41

Now and again there is a distinct lack of inclination for web pages to come back from the arceurotrade server. It used to be quite snappy 100% of the time, now it's like stirring treacle at minus 20 deg C A few minutes later and it's almost back to normal

Thread: Did you make one of these at school or as an apprentice?
30/10/2014 23:52:47

Made one about 35 years ago. Both it and the plans have long been lost, never ever seen the book I just had a dozen or so A4 sheets. Would love to make one again.

Thread: Identifying a taper - like ISO 30 but shorter
01/09/2014 20:40:22

Got an unidentifiable taper on a 1990's machine tool spindle, the largest diameter is 1.25 inch, taper is 7/24, so you'd expect it to be a 30 taper and the drive dogs on an ISO 30 toolholder certainly match the spindle nose. But the overall length of the taper in the spindle is around 1.25 inches not 1.9 inches.

Can't see any matches here

**LINK**

or here

**LINK**

Any idea what taper I've got?

Thread: Soba Vice Problem
12/08/2014 20:45:50
Posted by Chris Trice on 26/07/2014 17:37:02:

.... a Soba collet chuck that wouldn't fit the spindle

Wouldn't happen to be an ER32 one intended for fitting to a Boxford would it?

Went through quite a few before I gave up, got a refund and fitted one from Arc Euro to a backplate, it's far less elegant but it does the job. The Soba one was tried on I think five different spindles dating from 1952 to 1980ish plus a brand new 'still in the packaging' one from Boxford.

Can't fault Soba at all on the finish or the consistency of the work as they would all stop threading onto the spindle nose at exactly the same point.

Other Soba stuff has been ok, got a couple of their ground all over 'precision' milling vices and something else I can't recall right now.

Thread: ARC - PayPal and Credit Cards
08/08/2014 13:14:50
I can see why a retailer would prefer to avoid Paypal especially with their arbitary locking of accounts and removal / reversal of funds from sellers / retailers (documented and widely mentioned elsewhere) Especially since their operation appears to be wholly outside *any* UK financial regulation.

But as a buyer I often prefer Paypal because I have had credit card details stolen on at least two occasions and maybe more when the security at separate online retailers was compromised. I've also had them repeatedly stolen (four times in around 15 months) by a petrol station too (case proven beyond any doubt in my eyes although sadly with no prosecution) However using a credit card direct with a retailer is the only way I get any protection as a buyer, until there is a test case Paypal are nothing but a handler of a 'cash' advance / payment processor.

My debit card along with that of many others is a Maestro one and hence with zero protection under their UK T&C. (only VISA issued debit cards carry any buyer protection last I checked)

I have also experienced Paypal customer service (as a buyer in receipt of counterfeit software bought via Ebay) a few years back and it was truly dire. I was dealing with their Dublin office (only by FAX FFS!) and going round in circles for days getting nowhere, asking for the UK address at which to serve court documents was the thing that finally worked.

Charging a customer extra for using a credit card seems petty IMHO and might even put off new customers, I'd just bury it in the retail cost of the goods like almost every other retailer does.

P.S. The DVLA as mentioned above *have* to be an exception and impose a surcharge because the funds they receive are fully prescribed in law, they cannot hand over part of the transaction to an external party and less than the prescribed amount to the treasury.

PPS Would still use ARC regardless of any charges, their customer service is just how it should be even when the customer cocks up!

Edited By Martin 100 on 08/08/2014 13:37:32

Thread: Stuart D10 Metric Plans
29/07/2014 15:06:59

Despite imperial and metric dimensions being in the number 10 book the drawings supplied with the more recent stuart castings explicitly say they supercede all other issues of the drawings. They are now only dimensioned in imperial.

There is a dimensional error in the number 10 book, it is mentioned in a forum, maybe even this one but I can't recall what it is.

There is also at least one and maybe two dimensional errors in the text of the (extremely useful) online Harold Hall series on building the 10.

 

Edited By Martin 100 on 29/07/2014 15:11:12

Thread: miniature CO2 pressure regulator
28/07/2014 00:13:48

**LINK** (or any other bike shop)

Not 100% sure if any of these are regulated regardless of price or if, as I suspect, it's just a case of an application of Boyle's law. (It's certainly possible to overpressure a small diameter road racing tube rather than a fat mountain bike one)

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