Tip for the week

Keep a couple of drinking straws in the workshop.Ideal for blowing swarf and detritus out of blind holes and hard to get at places. Elfin safety eye protection.

Nice tip Eric, have used very low pressure from my air line to do same.

George.

I use a vac, a Hoover aquamaster oldie from the 1990s (remember that hoover free flights scandal?). It sits beside my lathe and sooks out the blind holes and t-slots

You can still get the cloth filters from a well known auction site, simply batter it on a wall at clean out time to remove the tiny bits

Edited By Ady1 on 26/06/2016 13:17:46

Just tried it, works a treat.

Thanks,

Dave

Always have a tub of cotton buds and a pile of pipe cleaners at hand, along with a set of cheap toothbrushes.

Doug

Blunted hypodermic needle for cleaning out small tapped holes.

pick up a few wooden coffee stirrers from Costa (Other outlets also have them). They make ideal Araldite and Humbrol stirrers etc.
BobH

News headlines, 'Costa' goes bankrupt due to a surge in wooden coffee stirrer usage!

Clive

People think I'm pigging the cheese and pineapple at buffets, it just so I can collect the cocktail sticks.

Neil

Neil, you really need to change tactics and drink more cocktails to collect the sticks

Keep a small first aid box in the workshop, masking tape for elastoplast, small clean magnet for removing steel splinters from sensitive parts, surgical tweezers for gripping small parts - like 12 BA screws, antacid tablets and a bottle of New Skin.

Definitely a real ale and whisky man (That's not a cocktail recipe).

Mind you enjoyed some Guinness Dublin Porter this evening for the footie..

Neil

Edited By JasonB on 28/06/2016 07:27:02

Which footie, footie down this end uses an oval ball, and you did do the Aussies rather well, but we got the Welshmen, or are you thinking of Iceland. I use skewers and wooden spatulas from the $2 Shop. Ian S C

Old, used, toothbrushs, sharpen handle end to a point and a chisel.

Long bottle cleaning brush for cleaning crud from the bore of the lathe mandrel and other such orifices.

Gordon

Roll of (soft) toilet paper kept next to the lathe or other machine. Use like mini kitchen roll to wipe off oil, swarf,, blood etc.