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Grinding / Finishing Plastics
Morning All, Ive just started a new job, and we have some prototype parts made by rapid prototyping, in (I think) polycarbonate. The process involves laying down 'slices' of the part in consecutive...
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Non Ferrous foundry recommendations
All Can anyone recommend a decent foundry for Al-Alloy Sandcastings? Can be anywhere in the UK. I do a lot of work for a vintage car spares company, and just about blew my top the other day over...
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markings
Tipex.
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Milling machine spindle
Perhaps a dumb question, but is there any reason why the spindle of a vertical milling machine should be able to operate in the reverse direction? For horizontal ones, it can be useful - but for...
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Experiences with steppers for dividing heads.
Firstly, thanks to all of you who contributed helpful comments to this project. 1. Some years ago I was given some scrap electronic equipment from a local hospital (wouldn't happen now, what with...
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alternator
Anyone know a good (=cheap) place to get a 240V single phase alternator? mate is after one for a Lister TR2 twin cyl generator, direct drive, 10-13KVA can't see any on ebay at the moment.
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Danger, Sellotape!
In the prototyping phase, I had the stepper motors and their controllers set up on the office desk. In order to see the motors revolving I had attached small flags made of Sellotape to the spindles....
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OT Skoda Octavia Electronics Problem
My Skoda Octavia diesel displayed a fault on the dash showing a fault with the pre-heaters. An owed favour gave me an electronic read out saving me a lot of money that the fault was my brake lights....
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Sanity check, please?
EN24 cylinder, inside diameter 50 mm, outside diameter 95 mm, wall thickness 22.5 mm. To be pressurised to 50,000 psi - that's the figure in the relevant literature, and it seems about right - its...
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Demon Server
Those of you with Demon and are not getting access to Usenet posts etc. Just spoke to Demon about this. The techy finally admitted that they have had a problem with their news server for 1 1/2 months...
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15 years ago
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5th of November
For anyone who missed the TV airing of the re-enactment the video's on on youtube in 8 parts. Awesome and well presented. of this OTT American reporting that seems to be the norm on TV these days....
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How flat are gravestones ???
In a job lot of kit purchased, I've aquired a 2 foot x 3 foot granite surface table in pretty abused condition. I'm tempted to get a local monumental mason to put it through his gravestone polisher,...
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Vesconite?
=== Unable to find the specified "Oilite" bushes locally for the Bremen Walking Beam Stirling engine I am building, I am looking at machining some from Vesconite rod, see are specified for the main...
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Printing a protractor?
In my experiments using a stepper motor to drive a dividing head, I'd like to re-assure myself by knowing exactly the position of the stepper motor. What I'd like to be able to do is to print a...
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Model Engineer magazine pricing question
Hi, Does anyone know what a reasonable price would be for a complete year of ME magazine ? I have quite a few years worth I don't really have room for and was considering putting them up on eBay. They...
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