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It's a bit strange that no-one has pinned this one down yet because it seems to be constructed from proper castings, even the faceplate looks like a proper machined casting

I just add the highest denominator, so 2 plus 7 plus 24

Mental arithmetic

It's just a habit if you do it all the time, but issues do arise if you are an occasional dabbler

...or should that be 12...

Edited By Ady1 on 10/03/2023 23:07:13

A lot of the stuff I get I improve

Figure out it's weaknesses or shortcomings... and make it better

Now that's useful

But how many tools do we need to get stuff done? Am I going to live long enough?

We need an Engineering Philosophy Topic

I think those hex drive kits are still 1/4"

I've got a kit somewhere but haven'y used it in anger yet

Yet another skill to be mastered...(sigh)

Have a look at the youtube guys, it's probably you... but it may be your kit

...and in a couple of weeks you'll be a knurling ninja...

It does sound like a windows permissions issue

Best I can remember at sea was the entire engine room staff trying to get a cylinder head off the main engine. Swarming round frantically, the main hoist pulling at it, chainblocks, hammers, iron bars sweating, aggression, desperation

I only watched for a couple of minutes then made myself scarce

It took a while until someone noticed it had been welded on

Real skill is making your disasters look like they were a deliberately planned part of the job

Good tradesmen tend to be seriously busy up here because there's not many around

There's loads of the other guys though...

Buy some Termites...?

There's definitely a similar thread or 2 in here, the guy lifted the lathe and cut the pallet away

Old research photos might throw up an answer, local library?

My favourites and still very useful are chains

Makes furlongs and acres easier to picture

Might even get used in anger. Apparently all that rainfall has generated record food exports for australia.

The world of engineering is littered with the beautiful corpses of unfinished projects

I've only been doing CAD for 8 weeks but I'm getting there

At sea oversight plans were called "General Arrangement of..."

Prices have just been hiked by royal mail, maybe someone has to get the new costs and crunch the numbers

Do any of them have the ability to change the rest of the design if you change the size or location of a part?

Which CAD program have you been using for your design work?

A DRO eliminates the complications of backlash on an old lathe

You can get a cheap version to experiment with, also means you can do metric on an imperial lathe, I've found them good to 100th of a mm. Don't bother trying with a digital caliper, for some reason they are useless for DRO work.

The DRO also helps you to see "tight spots" appearing on a grubby cross slide which needs a clean