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How hard is "Hardened"
I recently bought a Quick Change Toolpost with 4 holders. Advertised as "Hardened and Ground". Within days there were dings all over the toolholder. I find that I can relatively easily file chamfers...
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Westbury boring head
Does anyone have a picture of Edgar Westbury's boring / facing head, please ? Better still, does it appear in any of his lathe books ? I have the head, but am missing the automatic advance striker. I...
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FA: Beam Compass 14"
Hi there, An eBay item:
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Supplier
There used to be several local model shops in north Staffordshire but in the past year or so five have closed down to my knowledge. I want to get a small quantity of plastic angle strip. I know that I...
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Straightening a 2" bar
I have a 2" diameter bar of steel 36" long with a 1" 'droop' in the middle. This is one of the two bars that the fork lift forks slide on on the front bucket of a JCB so it is likely to be a bit...
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BT Internet problems
Anybody else on BT having problems with web browsing? Started early this morning and currently I can't get into a number of sites. I 'THINK' there service line is reporting that there is a problem,...
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Need to get some large grinding done in the south of England
I am in the middle of re-building a large old Wadkin planer/thicknesser and can pretty much do everything myself (even managed to get the main rollers which are 28" x 3" onto the HLV-BK for truing and...
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T Nuts
Gentlemen, As a serviceinstallation engineer I sometimes have build very large washing machines in an unfinished building, being one to see if I can adapt things for other uses I have recently found...
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Tapping size
Gentlemen, Can anyone tell me the tapping size of a 11/16ths UNF tap, I know its a bastard size, I have bought a tap but none of my books give a drill size for it. Its for Landrover track rod ends....
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Changewheel lubrication
I recently noted that a lathe owner was lubricating his changewheels with "Chainsaw oil", as it was "sticky" and did not fly off the wheels. Any comments?
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Model Engineer Bound Vol's 142 to 151 - Guide price please
Clearing a bit of shelf space, we have a number of near mint bookbound (Red hardback) volumes of Model Engineer and would like some guidance on what we should be asking in a sale. Vol's 142 to 147 are...
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Oilcan
With my lathe came an old fashioned oilcan. Soldered tin, long spout, sliding lid to allow filling, and a spring loaded button. I gave it a clean put some oil in and pumped it but nothing happened....
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Painting a lathe
I have an old Lorch-Schmidt lathe from 1920s which needs repainting (it's been rather roughly painted in the intervening years). I don't know much about painting other than that it is much harder than...
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Harrison M250
How do I drain the oil from the apron reservoir? What is the M10 bolt for which is above the apron on the rhs? Maddog
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Not OT but here goes
Good evening all, I have to send $35 to the USA for a item of tooling, the recipient doesn't except PayPal but requests a International Money Order, how do you go about sending one of these plus costs...
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