Member postings for Michael Horner

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The above link should be to a mini bonelle, wish I had the skills to make it

Michael.

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Hi Chris

Have you explored the above link? There are interesting ideas discussed.

Michael

wow!

Hi Jason

Are you saying if i put a meter between my laptop 0 volt and earth it will read 200 volt?

In the past I have had the tingles from equipment because it wasn't earthed, faulty extention. I presumed it had floated up to half mains potential.

Cheers Michael.

I mended my folding sack truck by tying a granny knot in the piece of string that stops the handle coming off, I kid you not, that's how it manufactured. To finish off I drilled out the wheels spindle hole and made two new bushes because the sleeve had turned in the plastic wheel.

Cheers Michael.

"Used to rev to 11,000 rpm in 1948, not bad for a shed built special."

Ahh but was it your shed John

Michael.

Hi Bertil

have you seen the "Cross vice + grinder = Quorn?" thread? Food for thought!

Cheers Michael

Now I know why they invented CNC!

Cheers Michael.

Hi Nick

I thought i was doing well when I fished a 90volt 1/2 horse DCPM motor out of the scrap bin.

I have lashed up a test rig from a 110 volt building site transformer to give me 55 volt lumpy DC. Sometimes it works and sometimes it trips a 16amp circuit breaker so I suspect a shorted turn. If I try to stop the shaft from turning I can't feel a loss of torque so may just mark the position where it trips out the breaker so I don't try and start it there.

Cheers Michael

Hi Les

Thanks for that. I think they still sell on Ebay, I'll check it out.

Cheers Michael

Hi Les

I like your ingenuity, what size grit is your wheel?

I'm toying with the idea of using and old lathe, ML2 I think but there isn't a Myford on the casting so who knows.

Cheers Michael

"Jason

I don't think you can cite the case of the Titanic - surely that was the fault of the driver! "

Wasn't the theory it was unsinkerble! Captain / iceberg proved them wrong

Cheers Mike.

Plasma cutter a cut40 arrived yesterday from Plasmapart, had a quick play to make sure it wasn't DOA. Not allowed to use it for real until Friday. Tested it on an old leaf spring about 12mm thick plus test welds. It cut through it easy but there was a lot of dross holding the cuts together, this is to be expected because it's near its limits plus my lack of experience.

Cheers Michael.

your just teasing. you've just pulled it out the oven

Hi Steve

Sorry you've not hit it off with Ketan. I bought my X3 and my KX3 from him with no regrets. On my last visit he didn't want to sell me an ER11 collet chuck because he did't think it would be fit for the purpose I was going to use it (he hasn't seen my work) but it did the job I wanted. When I am looking to buy something I look on his website first.

This is just to give you some balance from an ARC customer.

Cheers Michael

If you want to build your own, you could look on Gadgetbuilders website or Michael Cox's.

Michael's design uses a parallelagram idea for one of the angles so you don't have to cut a compound angel.

I did the gadet builder one with my own tool bit clamp idea. I had some noname 3/16" to steel which wouldn't hold it's edge, from the eccentric web site I noted they used M42 tool steel I think, which may be a cobalt type steel, used this and it held its edge better, but I do abuse it!

Cheers Michael.

You don't leave the ignition keys with them

Hi Johan

Have you seen the article in MEW 134 Jan 2008 pg42 Tool and Cutter grinder from a junk box?

It may be possible to use a cross vice for x y travel, somebody on this forum has done this already.

You will need some kind of swivel to get the rotational angles.

I like the idea of bolting things together to get an end product I don't have the patience or probably the skill to do it from scratch. Just make up the little bits to make it work!

Cheers Michael.

Hi John

Thanks for the link.

I will give this site some serious consideration, the fact they are not just box shifters has got to be in their favour.

I seem to remember you had yours linked up to a CNC thingy! So is it a touch start?

Cheers Michael.

Hi Noel

Thanks for your reply. Your experience is exactly what I want to avoid.

SIP is a brand name I recognize but not had anything to do with them, they have a showroom in Buxton which is not to far from Sheffield.

I tried to build a plasma cutter without much success, got it to burn a hole in a piece of wood!

Cheers Michael