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if the price is right id be interested in a yard/metre of the stuff

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i would say that that is a pretty good deal there. A year old machine with 2 years of Applecare still left to run. if anything happens to it you just call the Apple helpline and they will sort it out. Even down to getting someone to pick up your machine and deliver it to the repairers and then deliver it back if need be. Or collect and replace with a new one if needed.
My 24inch iMac 2009 version developed a screen fault and was shipped off for repair then replaced with a 27inch version cos the 24inch version was no longer available. All toook place very quickly and easily. All english call centres and absolutely no hassle to me.

what i should have said was [barring additional specific user required software]
and if thats still not specific enough for you i mean additional software such as photoshop or MS office or any CAD software which dont come with any OS at all.

There is a load of software that comes with the vanilla install of OSX. All of which is full versions. Unlike windows that now seems to come with trial versions of just about everything else thats ever been written for the platform. Anything else needed can be obtained either via the App Store or the internet for everything else.

I switched from the hell that was Microsoft based just about 6 years ago now. I only wish i had done it sooner. I haven't had a single problem since, whereas with a pc there was always something going wrong or playing up or not working properly in some way or other

it took me about a week to get used to the OS. the hardest part for me was getting used to the preferences [finding where everything was] and the menus. You expect some things to take you ages to work out but in fact they take you minutes [such as sorting out networks]. That for me was the comparison between the two. MS makes you jump through hoops and across flaming coals to make some things happen. In OSX the same things are done with just a click or two.

Mac OS updates are few and far between and are quite painless, simple and relatively unobtrusive. Some of them may be quite huge, but you can always delay and download at a more convenient time to you. You never get forced to complete an update like you do with MS.
I DONT have any MS software installed on my machines now and nor will I ever again. there are many ways to skin cats and most of them are far better and much less painful than the MS way.

For office type software there are many free options that rival the MS offering, and also many paid options. All offer MS compatibility if you need it. The paid options are also considerably cheaper too.
The only thing i can see that MS office has to offer any more is its unquestionable MS office compatibility.....!

Once you learn an OSX interface layout, you have learnt all of them, as all programs keep to a strict layout profile demanded of them by Apple. Meaning that all menus look the same and function in the same way. Which means that once you know where all the main options are, you don't have to go searching for them when you use another program from another publisher. They are always in the same place. It makes life so much easier.

I dont use an anti-virus every day. Dont need one yet. There are 1 or 2 problems out there floating about. All trojans. No known virus. But if your just bopping about the internet doing normal everyday things then you'll be just fine. if your downloading cracked and dodgy software every day then you might get caught out. But even then you'll probably be OK as the threat is minimal compared to MS based machines. Compare 5 or 6 threats on Mac OS to the 100s of 1000s of threats on a MS based machine.
I do though have a virus scanner installed that I run every now and then when I remember. Like I will now, now that I have remembered that I have it installed But it will come back with nothing found. That Im pretty sure of.

Initial outlay for an Apple product is fairly high compared to a cheap MS based machine. But for that you get a machine that works. A machine that has everything you need [barring software]. And Id say a stress free life, because my life certainly has been far simpler since I dumped MS software and cheap generic PC hardware.

in the 6 years that I have had an Imac, I have watched as my MIL has bought one for her own use [she used to be petrified of a PC but now uses her iMac like a pro], she also bought 3 iMacs to replace the MS based machines that they used in their business because of this. The changeover went smoothly, including the purchase and changeover [major step] of accounting software from MS based [Quickbooks] to a company that actually gave proper helpful and useful support when asked [unlike the supposed Intuit support]. And quite a few friends around the country have also bought Macbooks and iMacs and dumped MS and have said that they are so glad that they did that they too wished they had done it sooner rather than later. Not one of them is missing any MS software and has found comparable alternatives to anything that they used regularly.

All of this is based simply on my usage of Apple products over the past few years. No guesswork or speculation. Nor am I a fanboi or a fanatic. I use Firefox as my main browser and I use Apple mail as my main email client. 99% of all webpages and the internet in general work as it should [except this site which doesnt even work properly even when its working as intended !]
All of my software updates are done as soon as they appear and none have given me any trouble.

A little long, sorry about that, but at least you get the picture.

Id say get one, and don't look back

Hi all

appreciate the links

Thanks

Hi all

am looking to buy a chunk of cast iron that when i finish with it will have a size of 130 mm diam X 30mm thick
have tried several suppliers that i have bookmarked and none seem to have it in the size i need or even carry cast iron at all

so does anyone know of any suppliers that they know would have this and deliver nationwide - UK

TIA

cant tell you that

but i can telll you that an ML10 back in March 1970 cost exactly £71.

this according to a pdf of a parts list from that time

also just found a price list for the Super 7 dated March 1970 giving a price of exactly £148

and from the same list :-

Super 7B  exactly £188

Long bed Super 7 exactly £172

Long bed Super 7B exactly £212

all these are motor not included

HTH

Edited By Ziggar on 26/10/2012 13:25:23

Edited By Ziggar on 26/10/2012 13:28:45

there is NO supplement included in the mag

what IS in there is an 8 page advert for Chester machines

marketing speak has renamed it a 'supplement'

or you can simply click on the big 'ol link on most of that sites pages that says

Download a free copy of Power Point Viewer

no need to spend a dime........

but it worked fine for me anyway on my Mac using Keynote to read the powerpoint stuff

Z

Hi Harold

**LINK**

and

**LINK**

are just some of the ones ive seen on my travels

Z

plans drawn by other people contain a list of materials needed so I dont think its too much to ask

Z

Edited By Ziggar on 13/09/2012 22:05:02

Thank You

anybody else have any insight into these ?

their use, their worth, any use for them OTHER than making nuts on a machine ?

Afternoon Gents and Ladies

Yesterday I went to a booty and happened upon these items and thought they would be of some use in the workshop somehow.
They have a normal tapping thread at one end and the other end is simply bent over at 90˚.
Anybody know what they're called and does anyone know how to identify the various sizes ?
If i try to rub the rust off the shaft then any sizing marks underneath are going to be rubbed away too.

Any help greatly appreciated

Thanks

Z

Edited By Ziggar on 02/09/2012 13:40:04

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Hey Wolfie

i also made the grinder rest from Harolds book, followed it to the letter and all worked fine as it should do and as was expected.
havent made anything useable from any type of material since the bunny shaped letter holder in woodwork in high school back in the 70s

others have made it and made it out of sequence and run into trouble with locking mechanisms not fitting or getting in the way and such like but if they had simply followed the book then it would have been all OK

i think i made the same mistake as you though and also buggered up the slot in that piece too

so i -did- start that piece again, and was happy that i did
so why not do the same? its not a massive piece with a huge amount of work involved. you'll be happy that you did in the end

just follow the plan and instructions. no need to modify anything to get it to work. it works just fine and does exactly what you think it will do

make the piece again, you know its the right thing to do

Edited By Ziggar on 10/08/2012 17:33:59

that last example is also totally screwed on my computer

ive just been to Windy's wanted ad and clicked on his email link and it works just fine and as i would expect it to
an empty email popped up immediately, ready for me to type my message in and send away

i would suggest that its a problem with your email client in the way it handles the mailto: link being clicked on
does it happen on other sites when you try the same thing ?

take note of the error message. thats what they are there for. it should tell you what the problem is or at least give you a clue to the problem

ill take your word for it

but im gonna use m6 cos im a metric type of guy