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It sounds like it's shoving itself into the corner and the flanks need more relieving

Whats the angle your using?

When I did the same sort of work I needed a very pointy tool, for some reason a common sense 10-15 degrees just didn't do it

Edited By Ady1 on 11/07/2023 17:05:44

The tip has a hole about 1mm in the lidl pt31 jobs, the inner electrode is solid

There's a small insulator between the electrode and the tip/nose

Don't know about yours tho

Basically its a plasma stream riding on air and firing out the hole in the tip

edit: As mentioned, yours went sideyways by 90 degrees, very weird

a bad electrode?

Not enough airstream is my guess, something wasn't sealed right

Edited By Ady1 on 11/07/2023 16:56:41

My own irrelevant opinion is we really should by this stage with micron tolerances and amazing materials have a combustion motor with no more than two moving parts like a wankel type arrangement by now, particularly since we also have such good control systems to back it up, micron cnc machines and high end 3d printing

...but the real world is never as simple as it appears

Edited By Ady1 on 11/07/2023 13:12:33

I think they did a diesel like this in the 30s.

The million views are probably worth more than the engine... but we can hope

I opened up one of those baylis crank torches once and it looked like it was a 3 phase alternator to charge the battery

When they started building a wooden high performance twin engined plane in 1940 nobody really expected to get what they eventually created.

The idea may not be as flawed as is commonly believed... but only if the people who design it get things right

The first 100 years of Car racing is littered with mavericks

Edited By Ady1 on 10/07/2023 13:29:57

All new technology has risk.

The space shuttle. Round the world with Cook. The Wright brothers. The Comet passenger jet

If you want to get there first you have to take the risks

Our current culture tends towards safety instead of risk, so that Bloodhound project for instance is taking forever while earlier vehicle record attempts were pretty regular

I did auditing for a few years

Most businesses stray into legal grey areas from time to time, the very nature of business is to "take a risk" from the very start of whatever business it is

So the risk taking mindset is there from the start, the issue is to avoid becoming reckless

The cockpits of spitfires were green because you stayed calmer with that colour around you as bullets knocked lumps from your aircraft

Allegedly

If the hardware had been better things would have been a lot easier, the industry had a lot of limitations forced upon it and worked hard to overcome them

I paid 200 quid for 8MB of extra ram in my 1600 quid 1GB HDD computer, so almost 2k out of the 30k I got for a 2 bedroom flat in Edinburgh went on my new Windows 3.1 wundermachine

A very handy hole to braze on a kettle spout and whistle

Teas up chaps!

You're not the first of us to be caught out by oiling nipples

they use these kind of pumps

edit: you can get grease out by pumping air through first

Edited By Ady1 on 09/07/2023 10:40:10

I got a gantry job for wood recently and a 30,000 rpm cutter

They can do an amazing job but the mess they make is unbelievable while the machine howls like the jet engine on an airplane. I really wouldn't describe them as relaxing fun to use items.

Then add in the vacuum motor howling away to try and reduce the stour...

edit: I notice that many of the youtubes tend to show the presenter standing next to a nice clean not-working machine or have the sound turned off when they are showing a job being done

Edited By Ady1 on 09/07/2023 10:19:09

Most of it took ages to learn and forever to program

and if it was easy to learn it ran too slow

It was fun but it was very rarely done properly by "professionals"

The NHS got humped for billions by the computer guys who promised the moon and delivered a horse and cart

At times there seemed to be more lines of legal get out of jail free code than computer code when you looked at a users EULA

The computer industry was the first modern industrial supplier who could deliver a product that didn't actually work and they didn't have to give the money back

It was fun though!

Very nice Jason. As usual you make it look easy peasy

Is it about 20KGs?

Always nice to see you post Ramon

If the brain is still going on all cylinders and the bank account healthy may I suggest a foray into small scale cnc work

You do the intelligent bit and the robot does the sweaty work bit

A small woodworking cnc will give you the bigger picture situation for not too much outlay, there are quite a few about nowadays

It's proper cold at those latitudes by December so take some good gear for ever going outside

I couldn't even go out on deck as a skinny 20 year old in Canada, everything just stopped working and I was cold to the bone in minutes. We got out in early Dec just before the St Lawrence froze up solid

Never saw the Northern lights at sea. Missed it so far in the UK too, even that night they could see it in Aberdeen and Newcastle I never saw a sausage out late with pooch

Tea room talk for old duffers

Now it's on the horizon I aint got a clue what I'd "like", none of them have any great appeal

My pal donated herself to science, no funeral, nuffink, here today gone tomorrow

I'd probably prefer that approach, cart me off for disposal and no hoo-ha

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