Member postings for Michael Horner

Hi

Check out HPC they do an 8tpi ACME lead screw **LINK**

Cheers Michael

Hi thanks for the explanation Jason.

If I am lucky I will be to use the original barrel lock which resembles the one depicted by Nicolas Farr.

The casting has a restriction at the hand wheel end which will need boring out and I will need to move the retaining screw holes to accomodate the larger diameter hole.

Cheers Michael

Hi John

I like this idea and want to do it to my minilathe. Is the clamp on an excentric?

Cheers Michael

Hi Jacob

If your allowed too have a ground based first stage, say a big spring so this provides the lift off as this "kick" dies away your second stage then takes it to its destination!

Cheers Michael.

Hi Jacob

Make it look like Thunderbird 1, and as the forward velocity drops off the wings come out to give lift!

Cheers Michael.

Built myself a tap wrench driver because my tailstock one I bought didn't cover all the sizes of my taps. I bought the tap wrench for £3.60 so wasn't going to make that.

Cheers Michael

Hi RJW

I have a V twin compressor with direct drive motor and over a short period of time it loses pressure, do you know if this is a built in feature or an air leak?. A guy was telling me it was designed in.

Cheers Michael

Hi

If you have to drill a hole in the job, couldn't you use a ball bearing?

You'd probably want to to stain it black otherwise you might get bejazzeld!

Cheers Michael.

**LINK**

Hi Rik

You could check this link out. Saw it on the telly recently but it could be years old. Couldn't find the date on the web page.

Cheers Michael.

Hi Mike W

"The computer is the tool . The software is what makes it do useful things ."

So what kind of tool is a computer without out software/firmware - Paper weight / Toaster. Door stop

It's a bit like a ratchet without a socket as separate things there not much good but together very useful tool!

From my above anology the software is a tool also.

Cheers Michael

The E-dictionary says yes!

In my day job I use a progam called TSTOOLS. This can read sensor outputs calibrate said sensors, load firmware into the modules that make up the machine, etc. So helps me determin what is wrong with a machine and hence fix it, sometimes It has no relavance to MEW or ME.

As someone has mentioned apps that calculate say trig functions are a useful tool for HWE but I doubt you would want to know how the software worked just were to get it from.

Cheers Michael

If you use the screen as an earth then I don't think it is a screen anymore. Something about circulating currents. I seem to remember you only fasten the screen at one end for that reason.

HTH

Cheers Michael.

Hi

The ones from Amadeal do, they also sell the spindle as an up grade. SPG sell them as well but out of stock.

Cheers Michael

Hi David

Have you considered a tangetial toolholder, made or bought. The Michael Cox design is quite nifty. I made one for a cnc turret I built so I didn't have to mess about with shims. I think Rik Shaw made a modified one with a stronger clamp. To set the height you just move the tool bit up or down to the desired height.

Cheers Michael

Rik

It might be worth looking on the Maplin website for the small "Walkie Talkie" type radios about 30quid a pair. They are available from a lot of places apart from Maplins at all sorts of prices (often cheaper). They are battery units and are truely "wireless" as they are radios and you don't need a licence for them.

Keith

She might learn some new words! tried that idea and the local kids had them as well!

Michael

Hi Russell

It is, about 5% I think. The Crobalt is 50%.

Just wondering if there is any real advantage in the Crobalt, if it held its edge for longer there might be. John is saying he didn't find that to be the case, I have enough M42 to keep me going for a few years at my current useage.

Michael.

Hi Just made a Tangential tool holder along the lines of Michael Cox's design, just modified the bit clamp, don't know if it will perform any better. It's to go into a tool turret I made for an ORAC lathe. I don't have a forced lube except what comes out of a can of WD40. Does any know if this Crobalt alloy will perform better than M42 tool steel? It's £18 for 2.5"

TIA

Michael

Hi DerryUK

Had a read of the article and I think what it is saying a command is sent to the contoller and the only function of the controller is to execute that command it's a bit like what he says about the separate display card, it takes the strain of the MPU. The controller may have a buffer(memory) so it can take more than one command at a time. It would come into its own on a slow PC or laptop.

HTH

Cheers Michael.

Hi Jason

He does mention a digital angle gauge. Not sure why he would find a DRO cumbersome! Might be a pig to fit but then that's it. Surely? Is he after something like a mini GPS? If so I think to get the accuracy it would be out of the price league of normal model engineers.

Cheers Michael.

Hi John

Arn't you describing CNC?

In Mach3 You can type in your coordiates from the keyboard and the cutter will move to those points. The accuracy depends on how much you want to spend. A basic CNC machine is more accuate than I am on a manual machine.

Cheers Michael