Member postings for Brian Groome

0.5 miles from the box, 45Mb/s with Talk Talk.

Brian

My ordered ME has not been delivered to the village shop yet, and WHS in Dorchester dont have any either.

Taking out a subscription shouldn't be necessary with a permenent order.

Brian.

Hi Paul, it was 27th March, series 38:20.

Brian

If you've got iplayer have a look at antiques roadshow about 15 to 20 minutes in and prepare to drool !

Brian

Problem seems to be sorted now.

Brian

Brian, I can't believe that you even need to think about whether or not to send them a report. If it was me I would send them a report and an invoice for the time spent getting it to the condition it should have been in when they sold it. Cheers, Brian

Is it a requirement to be paranoid to be a Model Engineer, or just to be on this forum ?

While I don't have vast experience of Vertex tools I do have a 4" milling vice and a surface table. They are well made and the vice has had about 12 months use without any problems, and is accurate enough for my requirements. I would (and probably will) buy Vertex tools again. Vertex are a Taiwanese company, not chinese for what it's worth. In my fairly limited experience where tools are concerned you generally get what you pay for. Brian

As of yesterday afternoon there were (believe it or not) 2 on the shelf in Winfrith Village Stores - must be something to do with me getting my ME there. Brian

Alex, I am a bit surprised by your comment regarding Inverter Generators and the quality of thier output. They are not designed for 'lighting and other resistive loads' - a standard generator will do that quite adequately. The Inverter generator rectifies the output from the alternator and then electronically produces a good quality sine wave suitable for powering digital equipment, computers, televisions etc. These days its fairly difficult to get a decent generator (depending on power level) that hasnt got an inverter output. cheers, Brian

Murray, I would be interested to know your reason for being against paralleling transformers.

Provided that the secondaries are identically wound then there will be no circulating currents, and the output current available will be doubled at the same voltage. Brian

Martyn,

I assume that you are referring to the old din standard backplate that Chester have fitted on the DB10 lathe (seig super C6) for the 5" chuck. If so pre machined backplates are available from ArcEuroTrade - as are most backplates. Quite why Chester don't stock them is beyond me - bad business practice at the very least - but that's their decision.

Brian

I have had the previous model of the Axminster UE-125DV Bandsaw for several years now, and I have no complaints whatsoever. It does what it says on the tin to coin a phrase, good value for money in my opinion as a satisfied customer.

Regards,

Brian

Ah, many happy memories from my apprenticeship days with Vickers/BAC. Brian.