Member postings for Michael Horner

Hi Alan, can't help with a supplier. Sorry.

Vic. Read through the manual and picked up on the extract below. I have noticed this on my tangential tool (one I have made). I have moved on to Crobalt but the cutting flank does seem to scuff up but is more durable than m42 HSS. Normal HSS was a waste of time. Anybody else have this issue?

Cheers Michael.

"When I was using a tangential toolholder, I was very dissatisfied with flank wear. In order to clean up flank wear, you cannot grind the flank; you must grind the rake surface and quite a bit of material may need to be removed. I would be interested to know if others have had this same experience".

**LINK**

Hi Frank

The above link goes to a thread about a cam lubrication problem but the date does't match.

Cheers Michael

Hi Geoff

Try the link below. He has 2 web sites!

**LINK**

Cheers Michael.

1.9 Amps!

That will teach me to assume! I was expecting 8 Amps!!

So it looks like Les was on the money!

Well at least the PSU's will run cool and I will have plenty of juice to drive other things.

The aluminium strip is 4 foot by 1 inch by 1/8 inch.

Cheers Michael.

I have made up 2x 4 foot LED strip lights double row from a 5 meter flexi strip. I have stuck them on to a strip of aluminium flat bar to act as a heat sink. When I first turned the one above the lathe it didn't seem that bright and the heat sink didn't get warm. The power supply was an old PC unit. The 12 volts was rated at 8amp. When I measured the voltage under the load of the lamp it was 9.5v! Bought a 20amp PSU now the heat sink gets warm and the LEDs are bright. The garage temperature is 13.6C and after 45 mins the heat sink is 34.7C. Something to warm my fingers on in the cold!

Cheers Michael.

Not only the above but he has moved the end spark plug holes to the top of the head. Not convinced he has gone to 4 valves per pot because I think the heads are original, That would be a lot of work!

Cheers Michael

But what about the bees?

Although plug caps where fitted there where no wires so don't know if it runs. I'm not familier with the crankshaft on these engines, just wondering if there is enough metal in there to stop it flexing.

Cheers Michael.

Hi

Went to the Staffordshire showground for the Motorcycle Mechanics offering on Saturday. Took some photos of the Vintage stuff.

There's a few more pictures in the alblum, did't want to overload the post. The BSA triple is a V6!

Enjoy.

Michael

Hi Michael

Can you use liquid cooling like I believe the use on some high power PC CPU's?

I think I read somewhere pulsing the supply (PWM) is not an option for you.

HTH

Cheers Michael.

Thanks for that Graham.

I will try a reel of none IP65 because they will get rid of the heat better. I don't need the IP65 rating because they are going to be ceiling mounted for general lighting.

Cheers Michael.

Hi Graham

Looks great. Are they the IP65 variant of the strip? The reason I ask I have used the IP65 type before for under cupboard lighting and for the first 3-4 months it was great but then the light output would fall off. Checking the strip I noted the resistors had burnt! This happened on more than one occasion so I am not keen to repeat. The house was unaturaly warm (30deg) (SHMBO) may have had something to do with it. The garage wont be that hot.

Cheers Michael.

Hi

Anybody used the 5M LED strips to make up lighting strips. I desparately need some extra lighting, I have 1 CFL in a single garage. I was going to go down the flourescent tube route and saw this thread.

TIA

Michael.

Hi Clive

How long have you had your LED strips running? I made up strips for under cupboard lighting and in the begining the light was fantastic but over a short period of time (months) they dimmed. Inspection of the strip showed burn marks around the resistors. I used an ordinary wall wart smpsu with 12v regulated output. When the output was measured it was 12v. It could have been because they were behind a pelmet and so sat in the heat that they generated. A lighting website I was looking at suggested the strips should be mounted on heatsinks.

I have moved and at the moment I only have a single CFL plus machine lights and its not enough.

I was going to go back to florescents, when they failed replace them with LED tubes but that's expensive.

Cheers Michael.

Your swanking !

I am on my 5th attempt at this crankshaft

Cheers Michael.

Pure guess work. If the lathe in the link is the one the op has. It looks like the gib strip has a locking bolt. This would have to be released before adjusting the gib strip.

Cheers Michael.

Hi Steve

Just guessing but I think the grub screw in the pulley transmit the torque into square tube then into the spindle. I think the pulley should be a press fit in the bearings, a bit of low strength loctite should hold it in place. Can't find the fingers crossed icon.

Cheers Michael.

Hi Terry

Afraid I can't help with direct experience but I found a manual on the Grizzly Tools website which may give you some ideas **LINK** . On page 28 of the document 34 in the Adobe reader shows an exploded diagram. It seems to show some internal and external retaining clips.

Best of luck. Michael.

I like like it.

Must get out of this armchair and do some Muddleing

Cheers Michael.

Eloquently put!

Cheers Michael.