The Yahoo farce lost millions of hours of useful human knowledge, this place is just a blip in comparison

Once they trash Wikipedia there won't be a decent useful repository of human knowledge on the entire internet

Times they are a-changing

It can be a bit convoluted in here

I try and find specifics via google on the ME home page

and use any thread post for posts and piccies

Edited By Ady1 on 17/09/2023 10:38:17

I prefer the american radiuzez

Drawings are useful if you want to do your own upgrades or see how an add-on project will interact

You do however need CAD skills in the first place to take full advantage of it

Handy for missing bits too, as Jason said

Saves you going into the workshop and scrabbling about

It depends on the people you aim at

An imperial set would be for the more purist traditional customers, and there are a lot of them

10ths sounds like good solid advice (decimals) and modern measuring kit uses decimals

A metric set would suit more practical off-the-shelf get-it-done people

I'm happy to bang off the shelf metric stuff into my myford-drummond gear but there may be a faint sound of wailing and gnashing of teeth from the ghosts of bygone past

Edited By Ady1 on 15/09/2023 23:52:24

Great idea. Birdfood turns to squidge when it rains etc

I have a drainhole on mine but a steel brolly is better, also deflects incoming sparrowhawks

yup

Only found 3 x s.f.h in the index, last one probbly about 1913

18,349,20,Queries and Replies,18488. Converting 500-watt Kapp Dynamo to Rotary Converter,,S.F.H.,

18,370,526,Queries and Replies,18349. Small Rotary Transformers; Windings for Automatic Cut-out,,S.F.H.,

29,646,254,Replies in Brief,Casting zinc,,S.F.H.,

A legit seller of keys should have 100% feedback

A picture may help

He'll have his own Russian gauge train set for crossing the border to China and beyond

The top right tip of N Korea borders China and Russia

Edited By Ady1 on 12/09/2023 19:21:53

My ultimate goal with my first lathe was doing a few bits for fishing stuff... then I fell into an abyss which has only been tempered by my determination to only use easily portable machine tools

If you move up a notch then the world of boxfords etc opens up, there's a south bend with a bunch of bits at 150 on ebay atm

Edited By Ady1 on 12/09/2023 14:19:15

Depends upon the condition, a decent one with all the bits £3-500+

ML7s can command silly money but the buyers market is there

One at a good price always pops up eventually but you have to check daily then pounce

My first knackered one was 125, my 2nd fabby one was 350

Edited By Ady1 on 11/09/2023 19:00:04

I don't know if we've ever really had a dedicated lathe CNC solution in here, can't say if I've ever seen anything specific that folk could do as a definite starter

There's quite a bit on milling CNC

Cambam has a profile solution but there's plenty not included, no facing boring or threading, officially at least

The last milling CNC job I did ran for 12 hours, CNC can give you some serious workrate and outputs, especially for annoying less interesting work

Awesome.

Definitely jealous.

The problem is if you use an 6mm cutter and something goes wrong it goes ping

If you use a 16mm cutter and something goes wrong the weakest point in the chain will go ping, (hopefully it shoves the workpiece out the way)

Smaller stuff can zip along at higher feeds and with less threat to your equipment if you automate the feed

You can charge along with a consumable weak point in the system

Edited By Ady1 on 11/09/2023 10:39:28

Got a message:

Buon giorno, sto cercando i passi delle chiocciole in ottone tutti e due grande e piccolo. Grazie mille

Good morning, I'm looking for the steps of the brass snails, both large and small.

anyone got the TPI for the leadscrew nuts pls

http://www.lathes.co.uk/mashstroy/

https://docs.hacman.org.uk/instruction_manuals/Warco-Lathe-220.pdf

I'm guessing the main half nut is 4mm

Edited By Ady1 on 10/09/2023 17:57:38

I've been "CNC mill" watching on ebay for a few months now and rather a lot of them have been popping up

If they're any good then someones had a clearout and opportunity is knocking

Big worm or little worm (in italian)

Could a mod perhaps change the title

Latest Issue of ME - ELS (electronic leadscrew)

kinda thing

and delete this post.

ta