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That's a seriously deficient design. Stop should unconditionally mean stop by the removal of supply. A restart should not be possible by the action of just resetting the stop switch.

RS, Farnell and CPC do Wera (green and black handles), in sizes from circa 1mm to 10mm. RS & Farnell do Wiha (red and black handles) maybe in the same range but certainly from 3mm upwards

Once you have a part number you might find them discounted on Ebay

Proper manufacturing in Germany doesn't come cheap though

www.rswww.com

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cpc.farnell.com

There are plenty of torque screwdrivers that work down to 1Nm or less, some with interchangeable tips

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Vehicle electronics are by design extremely robust.

Page 4 of this document shows a typical test pulse (one of seven) in ISO 7637-2 (now superceded by ISO 16750-2)

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One of the tests in the ISO Standards (3a) imposes 100ms pulses at minus 150v for an hour and another (3b) at the same rate and over the same period but at +100v.

That's to the exact same supply terminals on your ECU as your battery (and charger) is connected to.

The upshot is anything that can't cope with a smart charger connected is only fit for the scrapheap!

Edited By Martin 100 on 29/01/2018 16:06:42

It's lawyer speak. I have smart / multistage chargers from Race Tech, Mascot, Optimate, C-Tek and Lidl in use for a decade or more, connected for upwards of 6 months of the year to my fleet when laid up over the 'winter months' I might at some point have read the instructions but regardless I've never disconnected the battery to charge it.

From this the update was available for 16 minutes, the problem was reported to them 15 minutes after release. the update was pulled a minute later and a total fix was released 2 hours and 8 minutes after the initial release.

I've seen much worse from other suppliers of software.

Stand to be corrected but there should be nothing literature wise you need for a strip and basic rebuild that isn't available for free from the yahoo group.

There are also scanned copies of the Boxford 'Know Your Lathe' manual floating around online maybe on the yahoo group, with chancers selling bound scans for silly money on ebay

I think the last Boxford reprint would be in the 1980's and its long been out of print.

Alternatively the genuine thing should be here 2nd hand for about 20 quid delivered

https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/SearchResults?kn=boxford&sortby=17&tn=know+your+lathe

Edited By Martin 100 on 28/01/2018 16:59:47

The Boxford at first sight appears a clone of the Southbend at least for the saddle, apron and quick change gearbox. The design diverges for the headstock and the spindle, the thread on the nose being 55 deg on Boxfords and 60 deg on Southbends, one UK based supplier of nose fitting ER collet chucks didn't even acknowledge the difference.

Lots of other detail differences with the crossfeed and top slide dials too (at least two Boxford designs and possibly three)

Fuses might indeed protect the appliance but their primary purpose in plugs in the UK is to protect the cable.

The cable should be sized to the needs of the appliance but there is no technical reason why a cable rated at 13A, fitted with a 13A fuse in the plug could not supply an appliance that had a maximum consumption of 0.1A

Oh and tinning conductors for fitting in screw terminals is a really bad thing to do..

Edited By Martin 100 on 28/01/2018 13:09:33

Boxfords Spares Website (ignore the prices they are long out of date)

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Plus loads of info in the files section of the Boxford Lathe group hosted on yahoo

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Edited By Martin 100 on 28/01/2018 13:02:24

Maybe as late as the 1950's in some areas the electricity for lighting was supplied separately possibly unmetered and just at a flat rate compared to a supply suitable for pluggable appliances hence why these adaptors appeared. I saw one used with a low wattage iron (for clothes) as late as the mid 1970's even when single rate metering became the norm. Clearly there is no means of earth provision!

Mains DC to the home at around 200v was still in existence until about 1960 or even a bit later in some urban areas using steam powered generators that had been in service from the 1920's

I knew someone many years ago, who as an electrical apprentice in Hull with the Yorkshire Electricity Board, went round doing domestic mains conversions from DC to AC by fitting induction disc metering around 1960 ish.

Maximera drawers

Various widths depths and heights. Make your own drawer fronts and change the base to aluminium or steel if you need more capacity. Build a standalone cabinet or fit a few under the workbench

For a worklight I'd go for something built like a brick outhouse and designed for a tungsten filament lamp or a halogen...and retrofit an LED. Everything in IKEA will now be LED as standard.

Edited By Martin 100 on 25/01/2018 12:48:06

Sadly It never seems to be cheap easily replaceable far eastern junk that gets damaged.

Touch wood I've been lucky so far with dismantling various machine tools into easily manageable lumps and transporting them in the back of a small hired van or the back of a hatchback. I think our original lathe was moved as two lumps but we were a lot fitter then. The courier used by Arc Euro delivered the X3 and stand on two pallets exactly where I wanted without any fuss using a pallet jack in no more than a few minutes. It took longer to unpack than it did to move and the bext part of a weekend to dismantle, remove the transport grease and reassemble.

A Boxford lathe I acquired more recently a few hundred miles from base was dismantled in about an hour into very manageable bits (bed, gearbox, stand, headstock, talistock, motor, saddle, apron) I then drove home and went to bed, next day just after sunrise I unloaded it onto a platform with casters bit by bit, moved them into the workshop, before dropping the van off and going to work.

It was significantly easier doing that than getting John Lewis to deliver a Fridge Freezer direct into a kitchen without going through the entire house in muddy boots.

Do you know what Fluke kit is being faked?

Anti-dementia time, hopefully someone can help!

Before the 'London' exhibition was at its current location and when it wasn't at Wembley, where was it and in roughly what years?

I know I've been, maybe in the 1980's or 90's, maybe at Olympia?

Not at NASA but when we produced designs for low volume in house pcb manufacture & assembly everything that required double sided boards had no plated vias and was produced with soldered wire links (or veropins) between the top and bottom layer, always sited outside the outline of any component (nothing under IC's for example) and all components other than these links were only soldered on the bottom side. The component pads being deleted from the top layer to avoid any wicking and to aid any further rework.

The problem is not only E.coli but Toxocariasis.

Posted by Ketan Swali on 21/01/2018 18:44:45f the above, but this is truly what i believe.

Arc sells the original SIEG design of machine with torsion spring. This was due to patent issues which SIEG had, which have since lapsed.

The mind boggles at how the use of a torsion spring to presumably support the weight of the head could ever be novel and thus patentable.

Bought one of these from the USA about 10 years ago, it's still working fine.

These days I'd probably roll my own using one of these for less than a fiver