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sliding tool rack

I would focus on a sliding tables Bisley type system

It could be quite useful for electronics work

Edited By Ady1 on 12/08/2023 13:26:40

It's only cardboard but by gum it looks good

**LINK**

Edited By Ady1 on 12/08/2023 13:16:48

Somebody must have come up with something on the netty

Spend a day or two google searching through pictures for ideas

Sliding system gives you more tables, like a BISLEY cabinet, also saves time switching tables, time gets important when its running out or you tire easily

Edited By Ady1 on 12/08/2023 11:09:30

If you're stuck for space then things get complicated, you need an extra safe system because exterior medical folk will go postal at you hanging 100lb plus above your bed

A car hoist system at the very end on the bedposts with a revolving 24mm threaded bar and a wire counterweight system at the corners closest to your head

Edited By Ady1 on 12/08/2023 10:44:19

The slide in tables impressed me. They are made of hollow tubing and have a tabletop

Don't want it there... so shove it away

Last one I saw on ebay must have been 300-400KG if it was an ounce, a heck of a lump of iron

This one looks a bit more classy, but as mentioned kinda pricey

Welcome to the nuthouse

GRBL has some interesting 32 bit units nowadays

I got a load of 5A fuses from ebay and have burned through quite a lot on an old AEI motor for my Drummond

If the fuses are doing their job then it's all good, 5 minutes or less and off you go

At the startup when it sucks a lot of juice seems to be the biggest cause of stress

Edited By Ady1 on 11/08/2023 20:05:27

If you're a total newbie don't use the backgear for the first couple of months

Use the direct drive with a slack belt which will slip in the case of any disaster

Not just the lathe which will be safer, you will be too.

You'll know instinctively when you're ready to start using full power and start getting more serious

It's not very different to your first car or motorbike, go easy to start with, they can bite

Just fixed the backgear pin on one of my Drummond Ms, the one from 1945

Great for drilling larger holes at slow speed

Backgear turns a hobby machine into a semi-industrial machine, electrical backgear systems have no hope of competing

That "In the factory" programme (Greg something) only ever shows food factories when I watch it

Did see a UK chap with a huge CNC on an industrial site 5 axis machining a bronze bar about 4 feet round and 15 feet long

It was a revolving biscuit mould

wow

Great job

The Dormer drills I've been getting get are from Brazil. They do good work.

If we come at the problem from the opposite direction and assume a human is 1Mhz and we need a minimum register of 1MB

Totally unscientific, but this is the direction industry is taking, processing power

8388608/64 = 131,072 MHz required

Current fastest chips are 6000 MHz

EDIT apparently the brain does about 10Hz, so multiply the chip processing power required by 100 so 13million Mhz required, yikes

Edited By Ady1 on 10/08/2023 11:38:28

You can see the difference even with a simple computer like our brain

To find a snap out of a film scene a computer has to search thousands of terrabytes of data and it can take a while to get that done using massive amounts of power and hardware

On the other hand we know "instantly" what we're looking at with our 1 watt 20Megabit chip eye/brain hardware

famous film scenes

Think of any image you like, you "instantly" know what film it was from

The data in each film is 4GB and you know which exact film out of hundreds if not thousands of them from a single random image

A computer doesn't have a hope of competing

So computers are a long long way behind at the moment, but they are useful

128bit computers are currently unavailable and the market is more concerned with increasing speed and processing power as opposed to the size of the register

Edited By Ady1 on 10/08/2023 10:47:11

There's also the memory issue for computers.

They look at a tiny chunk of code in the chip a moment (MHZ) at a time (64bit now) and process things linearly until a point is reached for a branch etc

It's like looking at the world through a tiny toilet roll tube with one eye, they do it really fast so it looks fine to us but they can't see the bigger picture

You need a 1MB chip to start seeing the bigger picture, like with early digital cameras

so 8 bits in a byte x 1024 in a kb x 1024 in a MB = so a 8388608 bit computer required to process a MB at a time

Italy just enabled a fabulous new tax

40% tax on the difference banks charge between what we get for a deposit and what the banks charge for loans

A Banking Crooks windfall tax

The BBC has buried it deep ASAP too, lol

" The tax will apply to the net interest income that comes from the gap between the banks' lending and deposit rates. "

Edited By Ady1 on 09/08/2023 13:40:55

The cost to the taxpayer has been horrific, we all have to pay for it anyway whether its a government water tax bill or a private water company water tax bill

We've given them tens of billions to run it... and THEY own it instead of us

Britain is a crooks paradise

Tony Blairs PFI was the same crookery

Why buy a Hospital with 2% government money when you can buy it with a 25% private sector credit card

These high interest crooks are hollowing out the wealth of civilised society

Our utilities should never have been privatised in the first place

The reason they got Nationalised was because the private sector is rubbish for these things

utilities are an essential service underpinning a functioning society, not a bookmaker slip