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Edited By vintagengineer on 06/06/2017 22:36:17

I have a clock machine that stamps with a 100 minutes to the hour. This was to aid costing jobs.

Why do we still have Imperial time clocks?

There are never stupid questions just stupid answers.

I need to make a steel banded wooden mallet for a vintage Peugeot. Does anyone know which type of wood would be most suitable? I was thinking of using Elm?

When I worked in South Africa we had a 1000 gallon hot caustic tank to degrease engines. We had an apprentice who put a RR torque convertor in the tank and went for a cup of tea, when he came back, he had to explain why he no longer had the torque converter. This was despite a large sign stating no aluminium to be put in the tank!

I wouldn't worry about knurling, it's the touch screens now being used in public places you need to worry about. It's a well known healthcare fact that one in three people have feces residue on their on their hands!

I used to work on large printing machines and the paper used to cut through tool steel!

They are very good as you can adjust the dies over quite a range. To cut a standard size thread, set them slightly oversize on a standard bolt then cut the thread and try a nut on it, if it is too tight, make an adjustment and take a second cut.

King Dick spanners?

Use a lefthand drill in a battery drill. The idea is that the drill is imposing a lefthand force on the bolt.

It's made in Germany and defintely a Module gear as my DP gear gauges do not match any of the pitches.

I have used a lathe with a 72" face plate and we used to put a chalk mark on it and count the revs!

Could some one please tell me what Module the gears are on a Hoffman dividing head?

Rumor has it that there are dud ones out already!

Are you taking the mick out of Chwis Eurbank?

So how do they remove the high levels of chromium, nickel, stainless steel and tool steel from the mix?

There should be none of these in mild steel yet they are found in all black steel

Having forged black mild steel for numerous years, steel from the last ten years is utter rubbish in so much as sometimes batches behave as it should do and other times it comes out of the fire so hard it shatters on impact.This is due to being made from recycled steel.

I would never use any black steel for structural work.

The quickest way to stop carbon emissions is to stop making new cars and all the other consumer crap people buy. If things were made to be repaired and to last a lifetime , carbon emission production would be slashed. Some of the most polluting cars being sold as good for environment are all the electric powered cars! The amount of pollution generated by mining the lithium negates any saving by the fools who drive the cars!

Recycled steel is total crap. When they scrap cars they go into a giant shredder and all types of steel is mixed together. So you get high carbon steel mixed with mild steel and this gets made into black steel which is only good for non structural work!

Engineering and structural steel beams are always made from new steel. Some modern cars are now made from boron steel!

I always use crimped terminals and the solder is only used to ensure a good electrical connection and never allow it to wick up the cable.