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Sweet Pea ashpan

I need help with my Sweet Pea. What on earth is the shape of the front (firetube side) of the ashpan? Is it as drawn, w...
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posted by facade
1 comments posted 22yrs posted by facade

Mikron tapers

Does anyone happen to have a spec for the taper Mikron used in their older gear hobbers and lathes for the headstock an...
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posted by andrew
2 comments posted 22yrs posted by andrew

Traction Engines

I would like to build a traction engine in the future (several other projects to do first) and I'm starting to look at...
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posted by Kevin.Steele
11 comments posted 22yrs posted by Kevin.Steele

OT:(?) Polyethylene granules

I'm not sure whether any model engineers use these but I'm after some low density polyethylene granules (2-3mm), as use...
4 comments posted 22yrs
posted by spamhere
4 comments posted 22yrs posted by spamhere

Help Needed

I picked up a nice little mechanical rev-counter on ebay recently (I collect these in various forms) and it arrived yes...
1 comments posted 22yrs
posted by diesel
1 comments posted 22yrs posted by diesel

Skeleton Clocks

Hi all, Er indoors has decided that I will build her a skeleton clock. (She came up to Harrogate and saw one up there.....
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posted by david.colliver.NEWS
18 comments posted 22yrs posted by david.colliver.NEWS

Gareth's double standards exposred again!

A fellow Gareth watcher pointed out some of Gareth's recent posts on UKRME: Here are the extracts: " I don't know who "...
2 comments posted 22yrs
posted by nemisis
2 comments posted 22yrs posted by nemisis

Criticism of Chris Heapy

I think that anybody who speaks out against the foul-mouthed and infantile tirades such as you have been guilty of in t...
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posted by ariy.r.bean
1 comments posted 22yrs posted by ariy.r.bean

Sheet Metal Folders

I need to bend some sheet metal - not big bits so I was contemplating, forgive me here, the small one sold by Machine M...
7 comments posted 22yrs
posted by Wells_hall
7 comments posted 22yrs posted by Wells_hall

SIMPLEX building instructions

Hi all, Can anyone here help me? I have just completed my first model engineering project, Tubal Cain's beam engine 'Ma...
18 comments posted 22yrs
posted by russell
18 comments posted 22yrs posted by russell

A predictor of infantile behaviour

I predict that he who was so childish as to arrange a shun, will secretly keep monitoring, and that whenever I offer he...
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posted by ariy.r.bean
0 comments posted 22yrs posted by ariy.r.bean

Tinchilla

http://www.ciao.co.uk/Tinchilla_Instant_Can_Cooler__Review_5338229/SortOrder/6 Anyone got one of these? I'm intrigued a...
2 comments posted 22yrs
posted by howkersNOSPAM
2 comments posted 22yrs posted by howkersNOSPAM

Pulleys

Have been attempting exactly what you have for the last six months!! A source of diecast single V pulleys is : www.jacr...
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posted by one
1 comments posted 22yrs posted by one

XY table articles in MEW

Does anyone have MEW 27 and 33 and be willing to scan or photocopy the pages by Stuart on Computer controlled XY table...
2 comments posted 22yrs
posted by bob.minchin
2 comments posted 22yrs posted by bob.minchin

ME Index

Hello all, Link to the complete ME Index in 4 parts. www.groundlever.demon.co.uk/me_index.html When the 4 are combined,...
5 comments posted 22yrs
posted by halgatenospam
5 comments posted 22yrs posted by halgatenospam