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Electric motor problem

I have a small drilling machine driven by a 1/4 HP induction moto (British) sometimes it fails to start and just hums,...
10 comments posted 19yrs
posted by stereotype.2uansn
10 comments posted 19yrs posted by stereotype.2uansn

Hello, long newbie questions

Hello, my first post regarding my first lathe.. Managed eventually after many failed attempts at buying a lathe to get...
15 comments posted 19yrs
posted by rob
15 comments posted 19yrs posted by rob

Broaches

Can anyone point me to a supplier of broaches, I'm after about 1/8" square. Thanks Kevin
7 comments posted 19yrs
posted by kevin.newsgroups
7 comments posted 19yrs posted by kevin.newsgroups

Need Some Spacers Making Up

Can anyone knock up some dural spacers for us? We need 18 pces 32mm dia dural, 110mm long with M12 clearance hole all t...
1 comments posted 19yrs
posted by prepair
1 comments posted 19yrs posted by prepair

Transformer Oil

We still have three or four 25 litre barrels of this oil available if anyone still needs some.... Peter -- Peter A Forb...
10 comments posted 19yrs
posted by prepair
10 comments posted 19yrs posted by prepair

Hob Helix Angle

One for John Stevenson I suspect. I cannot reconcile the helix angle engraved on a 0.7Mod Hob with my calulations. The...
11 comments posted 19yrs
posted by jg
11 comments posted 19yrs posted by jg

stepper motors drivers

could someone give me a bit of advice on stepper motors and drivers, i have built a cnc router and i bought a complete...
3 comments posted 19yrs
posted by drut12000
3 comments posted 19yrs posted by drut12000

How did it do that?!

Ok so I go to , and nothing happens when i click the video, of course, however....at the very end when a flash kind of...
0 comments posted 19yrs
posted by Ricky
0 comments posted 19yrs posted by Ricky

Setting up a Myford ML7

Hi, hope someone can help a neebie before I go meltdown !!.....I bought a ML7 recently and I'm having loads of trouble...
22 comments posted 19yrs
posted by merlin_in_uk
22 comments posted 19yrs posted by merlin_in_uk

True?

is this real? http://one.revver.com/watch/97897
0 comments posted 19yrs
posted by Admin
0 comments posted 19yrs posted by Admin

Parting tool recommendations

I have to make a quantity of thickish washers from 30mm SS barstock, upto now I have been using an Eclipse HSS blade (a...
22 comments posted 19yrs
posted by elanman99
22 comments posted 19yrs posted by elanman99

Air tool threads

I recently bought a small compressor which has (appaently) 1/4" BSP fittings - I haven't measured them, just accepted w...
7 comments posted 19yrs
posted by jg
7 comments posted 19yrs posted by jg

Grizzly tools in UK

Are there any importers of Grizzly tools in the UK? They will ship to UK but the item I want is only a quarter of their...
15 comments posted 19yrs
posted by bob.minchin
15 comments posted 19yrs posted by bob.minchin

Problems of Scale with Scale Models

Another one for the brains trust after another wet weekend. I was looking at the equations for flywheel weight for stea...
18 comments posted 19yrs
posted by oldnoccer
18 comments posted 19yrs posted by oldnoccer

g and m tools

Has anyone visited "g and m tools" at Ashington, West Sussex? Hope to be in the area next week and wondering whether th...
2 comments posted 19yrs
posted by malcolm_stewart
2 comments posted 19yrs posted by malcolm_stewart