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It's a trade and it takes years to learn at any level

The people who are good at it are classed as highly skilled labour

The bit I missed until later on is that model engineers are only just above watch/clockmaker size engineers for a lot of the stuff they do and I'm more a chunky bits guy

Going by the hands/nails it may be a lady

A decent band saw is good

The best choppy-uppy system is a grinder with 1mm discs

To achieve a straight cut put the job in a vice and cut along the vice jaw line

You can cut a 300mm x 100mm x 12mm steel plate in half in 2 minutes flat

Have a corner of the workshop set aside for dirty work only

Edited By Ady1 on 20/04/2023 19:52:37

Always got a couple of venison burgers at the Peebles show for mutt and me

Very tasty

Big Boy SpaceX Starship takes off... eventually

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Digitising them should have been done years ago

Do them in strips, through a scanner

I do wish the owners of these sorts of things wouldn't hide them, hoping they make loadsa money later on

The Model Engineer had a huge collection of stuff when the Luftwaffe came a-calling early in the war

All gone forever in 10 minutes flat

Interesting read

Its 3963 3965 and 3967

vol 172

(Don't have I'm afraid)

Driving Trailer/Living Van for a 2in. Scale Traction
Engine, Tony Webster

Worth every bean IMO, can't believe my luck

I'm cobbling together an MG42 as a sheet metal experiment at the moment

5000 howling russians coming straight at you means you get really good at swapping barrels and humping ammo cases about, you learn very fast. Very very fast.

Our main Alibre thread is here

Various other threads too

The Germans had some brilliant designers and engineers where pressed metal construction and fabrication was concerned. Nobody else seemed to be even close

The MG42 for instance was considered to be a war austerity design when first captured by the allies and it took them a while to twig to its simple reliable cheap design brilliance

Cut to the end of the war and the Russkies got hold of most of the tooling and staff for the pressed metal arnaments industry in Germany

...the AK47 magically appears in 1945 and its trials are completed by 1947

That's why I took the Alibre plunge

It's more than adequate for a hobbyist and ticks the local file storage and use it for life boxes

Things can change fast in software world

You need a bigger hole IMO

A possibility exists that the tap aint right, thread blunt/broke/bent, thickness etc

If it drills ok it should tap ok

Unless you need 30mm of thread drill out the top half with a 6mm

If the job "needs to be right" then you need to get the right kit first

Edited By Ady1 on 16/04/2023 10:51:59

Welding it would probbly be easiest

Going by the handle sizes the turret was very reliant upon manpower grunt

maybe you got a better feel for the cut with direct drive

Nice

He's obviously smarter than most of us for these things but if I was a billionaire investor I would be looking at 3D printing as the main future for major product manufacture, especially since you can integrate CAD into it as a real time option

The bodyshell only needs to be recyclable

After reading about them it looks like 2/3 of any machine pictured is actually beneath the floor

Like an iceberg

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We've got bigger, I don't know if SF finally did ever get their 15000 ton press

This incident actually made me a committed Brexiteer because "EU rules" conspired to kill it off (A well known steel competitor was going to complain to the EU so the deal got kyboshed)

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Aha! they got a loan from the MOD and bought a 13,000 ton one from ebay Japan

https://www.thestar.co.uk/business/forgemasters-spends-ps120m-on-new-press-in-one-of-largest-investments-in-steelmaking-in-sheffield-3206219

Edited By Ady1 on 12/04/2023 16:46:06