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Hi Andrew

Are you aware of the Unimat groups on groups.io? The biggest is groups.io/g/Unimat which is nominally for DB/SL models but has a lot of U3 owners, whilst groups.io/g/Unimat3 is smaller but just for the 3. Both groups are public so you can "try before you buy".

This post looks particularly relevant to your needs, being a way to fit screw cutting gears to a U3. If you have access to a 3D printer you could create the necessary gears in Fusion 360.

Brian G

The article doesn't say which carrier, but it is nice to know we aren't the only ones.

Brian G

Ah yes, exactly where I wanted my parcel – delivered to somebody else’s foot

Here in the brochure pdf

Brian G

Edit:  Unfortunately both firms have measured different parts of the toolpost, but if you compare either of them with the (imperial) measurements of a genuine 400 USD Aloris AXA toolpost they appear to be pretty close copies of the same toolpost, so may well be interchangeable.

Edit again:  If your compound slide has an integral boss for the 4-way you will either have to machine this down to fit one of these toolposts (or possibly bore out the central cam of the piston type).  In that case you may prefer to use your credit on the Warco rear toolpost first if the 250 will swing the compound clear of the bed.  

BG

Edited By Brian G on 21/12/2022 22:04:27

Edited By Brian G on 21/12/2022 22:14:17

I must have missed the post, but it sounds like you mean one of these:- Flip-up Toolholder

If not, thanks for reminding me, hopefully the workshop will be moved in January and this will be another one for my "to-do" list.

Brian G

Have you considered the Brooks design? The words and music are in MEWs 16 + 17. I have one on my "to do" list as it is made without castings and appears similar in operation to the Stent although it uses Unimat-style (but much thicker) round bars instead of dovetails. There is a build on gadgetbuilder.com.

Brian G

According to SKF P6 is closer tolerance than their standard bearings and P5 is closer than P6. **LINK**

Brian G

I think 'Empire' may be trumped by Charlie Shackleton's protest film 'Paint Drying', created for the sole purpose of forcing the censors to watch ten hours plus of exactly what it says on the tin.

Brian G

Imagine the wear if trains were actually guided by the flanges.

At the end there was a link to this, reminded me of riding in a Scottish EMU, coming from Kent I had no idea that there were units with glass behind the driver.

Brian

This is Doug Roseaman's website www.fairgroundmodels.co.uk

Brian G

+1 for Starrett, even some of their cheapest products are beautifully finished and most come in really nice little red boxes so that family like to give them as presents. I'm about to try and persuade my wife that she wants to buy me a no.18AA centre punch

Brian G

I let my subscription lapse when I moved, so cannot check it in the online issues, but I remember reading an article on this subject. IIRC it used a second round bar to locate the column and added a leadscrew and graduated handwheel. Looking at the index I think it will be Rhodes. M. "Milling Head Alignment Guide for the Unimat 3" MEW 124 (April 2007).

Brian G

Edit:  This is the article I remembered, and I found some of the text and a couple of photos published here as a news article

Edited By Brian G on 14/11/2022 18:30:50

You could try Dream Steam in Kent. Although the MSS locos in the train sets are are fired by solid pellets, they also offer meths burners and other upgrades for them. Other commercial steam locos in 16mm from Mamod, Accucraft, Regner and Roundhouse are gas fired, but there are Gauge One meths fired locos although they probably won't run happily on a "small circle or oval".

Brian G

(No connection to the shop other than as a customer)

Zoro offer a "Senator Polycal Digital Caliper" at £15.99 inc. VAT with a resolution of 0.01mm / 0.005" but this appears to be polycarbonate like the similar (identical?) M&W one. I wasn't impressed by the claimed accuracy of +/-0.02mm / 0.008", but even a Mitutoyo caliper costing 10 times the price doesn't claim to be more accurate, so I guess it is in the nature of calipers.

Brian G

Drawings are available online here Railway Clearing House Wagons, the coupling hook and chain is on drawing 1007.

Brian G

I just looked up the RCH drawing for wagon couplings and the link is 1 1/2" diameter with a 1" thick x 2" wide flat (I never knew it was called a "gedge" 2 1/4" long midway along one side. The matching coupling hook has a 1 3/4" hole broken out by a 1 1/16" slot. The top of the hook at this point is 2 1/8" wide, so the flat will pass easily through the slot, but there is no chance of accidental removal.

Brian G

I always thought it was to allow the coupling link to fit through the slot in the coupling hook. Was this wrong?

Brian G

Some companies with very high volumes of shipping pay their carriers a percentage of monthly shipping value, not a per-parcel charge, whilst almost all pay a heavily discounted rate compared to private customers. Either way, for accounting purposes delivery costs are often taken overall, not costed to each job, and as a percentage of overall costs many small packages may be balanced out by a single large order (Zoro for example sell £50k machines as well as a lot of £100+ cutters).

Brian G

On a journey we look out for services with a McDonalds rather than getting coffee from "Megabucks" or "Costly". Does anybody know if the French "McDo's" still give you a small dark chocolate with it?

Brian G

Can I ask what is so cheeky about McDonald's? There doesn't appear to be anything that isn't necessary for a webpage to function and most websites will already have gathered this information before they serve you with a page anyway, they just aren't as up-front about it.

If you read the privacy policy of the model-engineer.co.uk website (link here or at the bottom of the page) you will see almost exactly the same thing, the biggest difference being that McDonalds ask you to agree, probably because the data is analysed in the US, whilst Morton's don't ask (although I'm pretty sure that registering as a forum user requires agreement to the conditions).

The server for every webpage you go to requires address information, otherwise it will not know where to send the information. Similarly, without your computer sending browser and hardware information, the server would be unable to decide whether to deliver a desktop or mobile version of the site, or even whether the browser could display a usable copy of the page.

Because there will be many clients connected to the server at the same time, cookies are required for the server to keep all responses from a single client linked together. For example if the page first asked for which restaurant you visited and then sent you further questions about the service in the restaurant, without a session cookie there would be no way for the server to link the answers to the particular restaurant.

Brian G

I can't offer any advice Jay, but I think those who can would need to know something about the machine, ideally make and model and whether it is a flat, round or prismatic bed.

Brian G