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The methanol was also added to aid evaporation and stop detonation

Propane is a welling gas so should not be stored below ground level! 

Hydrogen is very easy to produce, just pass an electric current through water!

Edited By vintagengineer on 21/04/2018 13:14:48

The press are missing the most critical factor. Most plastics are made from oil production waste by products. If we stop producing all plastics what happens to the oil production waste?

Very nice! I spent two weeks learning how to make my own turning tools.

This is what I would use if using filler rod.

I have silver soldered numerous vintage propshafts. I use silver solder strip and press the joint together and then heat up the joint. No gap.

BOC do 3 types of welding gas. Argoshield light and heavy, these are are Argon CO2 mixtures and they do pure Argon for TIG welding.

Ford V6 engines have tufnol cam gear drive the valve train and the do fail but only after high mileage.

First thing I would do is make a square plate to connect the four mounting holes to stop the crack moving.I know this will lift the column by the thicknessof the plate. Then stitch it using a backing plate.

Chemical Metal is the best solution. Countersink the holes both sides so the filler is wedged in.

Shafts can bend spontaneously due release of stress's. I worked for a large sugar mill and we removed a very large old lathe, which twisted to hell when we undid all the bed bolts. Also long carnakshafts have to be stored vertically to stop them twisting.

Read George Orwell's 1984 and you realise how far ahead of times he really was! The olny way to stop people spying on you is to drop off the radar.

No phones, no internet, live off grid and put any bills in someone elses name. Takes about 5 years and then you disappear off the system.

Edited By vintagengineer on 22/03/2018 08:55:15

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I restore vintage cars and we used to use Tern plate but it got banned by the EU! So now I make up the parts I need in bright steel plate and then get them tin plated.I use these people for the tin plating and are very good. **LINK**.

The thing I like about CAD is you can draw full size items which you cannot on on a drawing board. I once had a commision to make a triangle shaped steel grill to go under a set of stairs in France. The only way it could be made without going to France and taking the measurements myself. I got the client to measure the 3 sides and then I drew it up in CAD to get the correct angles.

These are very effective! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4D_3nAfmcqY The other deterrent to use MIG wire stretched across the workshop just above ankle height.

Babbit or whitemetal bearings will run happily at 15,000rpm!

I went to B&Q to buy a small axe and they were all blunt, I enquired as to why they were blunt and was told that if they were sharp someone might injury themselves. How stupid of me not to have thought of that!

No, but it's a substitute for poor engineering!

I think people are becoming very lazy and relying on technology rather than using ther brain and common sense. They blindly believe whatever the computer tells them.