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Edit: Doh. My mistake it's a fretsaw, without the arms. How disappointing.

A Cowells Die Filer cam into the Men's Shed today, in rather rusty condition.
Comprising a steel plate over a fully enclosed alloy base with a small mains motor sticking out the back that makes it tip over.

Anyone got one?

I didn't take photos expecting to find some on the forum already and all over the web. But google finds nothing and Tony's site has no mention.
I must double check but I am sure it was Cowells cast into the base.

More tomorrow - or when the forum returns - keeping you on tenterhooks.

Edited By Bazyle on 04/10/2023 20:43:17

"modestly priced" vs "free google" it's a no-brainer.

Some vendors of seemingly equivalent lathes leave out say a steady or 4 jaw chuck or delivery is extra. Electronic speed control sounds more flexible than belt changing but often lacks low speed torque or overheats under the strain. electronics only last ten years and spares supply is questionable.
A number of the newer far eastern offerings claim a screwcutting gearbox but it is only few unrelated options rather than the systematic range of a Norton box.
I'm not a fan of the current offerings for ELS with all the button pushing and tiny screen. The old Norton box is just clunk clink and your there and it remembers what you set last time,

You can make the equivalent of a pin pull out connection with a couple of drawing pins in the jaws of a wooden clothes peg and a bit of plastic to separate them.

I thought the big problem for LinuxCNC using the printer port was the multitasking of the processor, particularly video generation, screwing up the timing for direct drive of steppers. It should be possible to avoid this by leaving one of the cores for the user to use unmolested, but is that the case?

I use WEADS. Wind Energy Assisted drying with Solar. aka washing line.

Aside from Passivehaus I recall a target a few years ago was 10KWh per day. So start with 500W and insulate until you can heat that room then additional rooms. We need to get away from the recent habit of overheating the entire house propagated by gas adverts in the sixties.

I'm a bit surprised by this. 10KWh would be say £4 so only £400 for 100 days of winter - way short of the thousands being touted as current bills.

If you can't wait then there will be 3D printing at the G1MRA annual show at Woking Leisure Centre this Saturday. It is billed as the club AGM but is open to the public from 10:30 for £7.

St Albans MES had a good show last weekend Last weekend ins September so remember it for next year, Free parking. Ok not the usual ME traders but lots of boats and Meccano too.

I recall the peak of shows was the ones at Olympia, the last ones to include significant model aieoplanes as well but the last got a lot of whingers complaining that shock horror there were a few dolls houses and a big Alien model at the entrance.

Before people get excited by various electricity rates getting quoted on here bear in mind the rates depend a lot on town/country, area of the country etc.

MG you could consider building a nice detached workshop, I mean summerhouse outbuilding, the max size permitted first and use it to store the house 'stuff' for a while while making other developments. Then afterwards you have er, a nice workshop.

If it is watertight you might consider having an initial arrangement of an inner room say 8x6 with a ceiling with 6in of insulation and walls of 4in that you can keep background heated and dehumidified to keep al the important stuff in.

As well as not trusting things written on the internet as definitive one should be especially beware of adverts which were probably prepared by graphic artists not engineers.

The Fry example shows how some, a very small sample of the population, will be affected by AI just as say thatchers were put out of work by the availability of clay tiles. But after a period even they have had a resurgence of employment as aspects of their work were found desirable.
Very little of what I have done this week would be done by a machine or benefit from AI. Pity none of it is a paying job either.

On my way to set up for the show this evening with a car full of tools etc for the club shop I passed a sign saying it was |"car free day. walk or cycle". Hum kind of too late to have such a sign directed at the moving traffic.

I wonder how I could have got all that stuff there without a car. Wheelbarrow? Perhaps the days of such shows are numbered.

Most of the adverts for '200w solar panels' on ebay won't even produce 10W if you work out the area of them. I don't know how they are allowed to get away with such lying. In theory you can get about 200W/m2 at midday, but probably not.

Thank you for not using this thread to link and promote your own videos.

I think a lot of people would find the editing a lot easier if they didn't turn the camera on until the job is finished. Thereby avoid any pictures of themselves, any 'oh look I've got lots of subscribers to my channel', any pictures of drilling holes and cutting bits of wood that a 5yr old know how to do, fumbling around for a tool because they didn't bother to make preparations etc.

Really all most of these videos need is a clear description of the end product at the beginning and a clear picture of the end product for more than 2 seconds at the end. If there are multiple parts clear pictures of them and some stages in their assembly. 15-30 seconds tops. Maybe metalworking videos are better made than the woodworking ones I mainly watch.

I know a bloke named James who has a cafe. Is it "James cafe" or "James's cafe" ?

The first sort of sounds better but I think the second is technically correct. This is a real issue at the moment as the " 's" is 18 inches high and someone has asked for it to be removed.

The St Albans and District Model Engineering Society is again holding a big model show at the end of September, 23rd and 24th to be precise.
Featuring Model Locomotives and Model Boats and Meccano and Model Traction Engines and Model Trucks and Lego and lots of other attractions.

Our show is very much aimed at getting new modellers interested in the various branches of the hobby not just classical model engineering. We have lots of opportunities for children to get hands on trying out radio controlled models and other things that move.

There are demonstrations of drones, two ride on railways (free), build a plane, try a steering a boat, try a robot, see live steam engines in a range of sizes, plastic and metal modelling to suit everyone's budget.

I was under the impression that Elliott in some form transformed into 'Gate' who still exist but with rather newer product lines.

Picture of loco perhaps would help. Might be recognised as having appeared in ME or EIM. Also a few designs have appeared in unexpected places, like Garden Rail magazines.

That's a really nice drawing Steve. Illustrations like that would be nice in ME as they can capture the essentials often better than a photo.