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In no way am I defending the delay or lack of communication, but it's always possible that they have never seen your recent emails. e.g. if they have been diverted to a spam folder on their mail server.
Yes I know businesses should be checking that folder as well, but who knows if they do so.

Have you received read or delivery receipts for any of the emails?

Good Luck

Bill

Have you tried running Ccleaner and Malware Bytes?

The free versions works for me, but don't forget to create a restore point before using them.

Bill

According to this web site (and others) Fern Green equates to RAL6025

This Company , (amongst others), supply Tractol to any RAL number, in aerosol or brush paint.

No connection with either company, but I have been using Tractol for years on old Landrovers.

Obviously since RAL numbers should be standard, pick your paint manufacturer and supplier , and specify the required RAL Number.

Bill

Normally with an ad on facebook, assuming the ad is in your feed/timeline, there's a little drop drown arrow on the top right hand corner with various options. e.g. Hide Post, Hide all fromxxxxx and or see less ads like this.

Hide all from ebay should stop ebay ads appearing.

Tool slightly below centre height maybe, such that any deformation (bending) of the tool forces it into the work, rather than away from it.

If it's a touch above centre height, then a minor flexing is more likely to move it away from the surface of the workpiece

Well I logged on to apologise for causing offence by taking the thread further off topic, with my ramblings about goats, but maybe I'll not bother now.

I've not looked at the web site for 20+ years, but from what I remember, they tried to keep the breed pure, even though it's a genetic defect.

The idea being that sheep or goat herders would add one to their flock. The goat, being more sensitive to danger than the human, would keel over if it sensed danger, such as a wolf was in the vicinity. This would then alert the shepherd to protect their flock.

My first real home computer was a BBC B with a 2nd processor board running a Z80 and a CPN operating system; CPN being a ROM held lookalike of CPM.

I thought it wonderful when modems got up to the dizzy heights of 56k and I could access usenet groups.

The first internet at work was delivered via dumb TTY screens off the mainframe, and was 80 column text only; in colour if you were fortunate. It could take up to a minute or so for a page refresh, if it was at all busy. I can still remember the delights of reading about the Fainting Goat Association. (yes really)

We seem to take a lot for granted these days, but back on topic, the old Footprint screwdrivers with the yellow handles were superb (apart from the 'orrible taste of the plastic when you needed a third hand for something. Anything after them became a retrograde step, which really showed when the new modern generation of screws were hardened more than the screwdrivers.

Personally I've been using a couple of the old original Aquavacs for donkeys years, still going strong, though I've had to repair the plastic bits a few times.

However, this doesn't help the OP, but immediately before opening this thread, a Machine mart marketing mail arrived in my inbox,

Apparently a new ashvac, with steel hose and stainless container for <£50

**LINK**

If you do go for one, please let is know haw well it works.

Bill

I would say that from your last picture,you need to remove the collar at the far end of the screw from the vice handle. It's probably held in with a split pin, or some other pin (plain, tapered or roll), but it should punch out; just be careful which way you knock it, if it's a taper pin.

You should then be able to remove the screw, and the nut should withdraw downwards.

The sliding jaw should then slide out.

Edited By peak4 on 27/06/2017 09:07:20

OK Knowledgeable folks, anyone ever seen one of these before?

I picked it up in my local scrap/salvage yard yesterday and spent the evening cleaning it up. It stands about 12" high

The spike sticking out of the top left pulley wheel is actually on a taper, and fits either side; the end contains a tiny mounted point.

From what I can gather Julius Faber, from Stuttgart, was an early spectacle maker and had a few patents to his name, including the curved spring spectacle side ear restraints.

Very little on Google about this gizmo, but I'm guessing it was for boring holes in spectacle lenses, maybe for fitting arms and bridges directly to the lens.
Again guesswork, but maybe the elf cup at the front contained either coolant/lubricant for the glass drill, or maybe an abrasive compound if they were drilling with some sort of a soft lap.

There's no drill chuck with it, and no obvious means of fitting one, but the quill does have a blind taper.

The little cross slide is adjustable for both horizontal and angle. The brass carriage slides freely and has a fibre jig at the end, maybe to support the lens. The hole down the length of the cross slide is plain.

Directly below the quill, the pillar is made of either a fibre compound, or hard dark wood, and clearly supported the workpiece when drilling.

The adjustable detent is calibrated, both on the knurled wheel and also on the barrel itself.

There's a picture of a similar one HERE

OK Been having a quick play with the sort of brass eyelets that are used in shoes for the laces.

Often available in cheapo kits from Lidl, Aldi, or your local camping shop; normally complete with basic crimping pliers. I think they were £2.99 a set when I bought these for a box of a hundred and the pliers

Wire Prepared ready to go;

Crimped, and trimmed;

Sleeved with a Hellerman rubber boot;

Just a quick try to see the feasibility, but seems OK to me. I guess you could smarten it up further by adding a small brass washer on top of the wire before crimping, but I didn't have one to hand.

Edited By peak4 on 24/06/2017 11:59:47

FastStone Image Viewer is pretty good, and does far more than just resizing, though you will find that in under Tools - Batch Convert.

Bill

Some on ebay, but I think the vendor had a rush of blood to the head when he priced them.

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Eh, I've never seen a link displayed like that before.

Edited By peak4 on 24/06/2017 00:21:06

Edited By peak4 on 24/06/2017 00:21:44

Is Dudley close enough?

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or here

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I don't know much about modern cars, but I'll have a guess at a blown CV or a circlip popped off a driveshaft allowing it to disengage.

Any pools of oil underneath?

I'm having an ongoing battle with the little blighters myself.

They've happily gnawed through the wire mesh of the steel peanut feeder and eaten the plastic feeder holes off the seed dispensers.

I've duplicated the latter with fittings made from some leftover 22mm copper pipe, which has slowed em down a tad, though there's still deep gouges in it.

Next solution was to take the pole off the feeder hangers, and suspend it from a wire hanging out of the neighbour's tree. That failed, they can jump further than I thought. Ho Hum

One much vaunted solution is to add hot chilli powder to the peanut and birdfood mixes; apparently birds don't have chilli receptors, but squirrels do, so I tried liberally coating everything with extra hot chilli oil. The Buxton sub species seem to love Mexican peanuts; I think I'm up to plan G now.

I did make a solid oak bird table with a slate roof, and have slowed them down a bit by blocking the open sides with galv wire mesh, but a couple of times, Jane's found one trapped inside; presumably squeezed in through the mesh, gorged itself stupid and then was too big to escape.

Maybe time to try a longer pole and a Slinky.

Edited By peak4 on 20/06/2017 10:00:08

I have a 112 attached to my bench in the new workshop, and a very good vice it is too.

I've no idea what the P signifies on yours, but they all look very similar.

There's very little to stripping and cleaning it, though you might need to get hold of a new split pin or two.

Have a look on ebay now under "record 112 vice"; the first listing as I type this has a set of photos of one in pieces.

Bill

Edited By peak4 on 19/06/2017 23:27:47

Simon, don't know where you live, but HPC supply acme lead scres and nuts in 5/8 x 8tpi

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Good Luck and welcome

Bill

Adrian, the big numbers on the black background are for thread cutting and give TPI; if you reverse the gear for normal turning, read the feed rates per revolution on the smaller red/blue backgrounds.

The gear itself is held in place by a little gate, so you don't need tools to reverse it.