I repurposed a clamp or is that dual purposed a clamp into a Bultaco clutch spring compressor.

​Cheers Michael.

It's probably because the PRC want to know where people in China are flying them, not what you are doing.

My cheap phone came with thr Chinese filtered version of Google pre-loaded and Weibo etc…

Expect UK ones to require flight logging of larger drones in the future…

Neil

I've been tidying up the shed and have got to the point that I've got a few things that, to be brutally honest, are consuming more in space than their value in usefulness . So I made a little list and decided to start getting stuff ready to list on EBay…

First one was an 8" Abwood style milling vice. It'd spent its working life on a Lumsden grinder, so hadn't got any of the war wounds that milling vices normally pick up, also hadn't got any paint left due to the rather aggressive environment.

Decided to clean a light layer of rust off it, get any abrasive grit residues out of it and then list it. Unfortunately, when disassembling it, I discovered that the bronze nut is sheared off the post that held it into the base casting:-

Before I cut it up to get useful cast iron stock from some of it and chucking the rest, Does anyone want a 65kg milling vice that needs a new nut making. To quote Badfinger/Paul McCartney:- If you want it, here it is Come and get it. Make your mind up fast.

Available free for pickup from Rugby to anyone that needs a large milling vice and is happy to make a new nut for it.

PS:- It's too large for a Bridgeport sized mill and it weighs 65kgs.

Edited By Mark Rand on 01/01/2018 16:09:08

Hi Neil, it is more involved than that. **LINK**

If I want to fly in certain places then the equipment must be cyber-clean, it's in the contract.

* Danny M *

Setting up to use my Stevenson endmill grinding fixture for the first time, I discover that the grinder spindle is bent at one end! ( it's a single phase Clarke double ended grinder modified to fit a Union T&C grinder)

I may have a go at straightening it, even if it means remachining it and sleeving , after all, what have I got to lose? its scrap as it is.

Brian

That nut will silver solder nicely and the heat doesn't soften bronze (at least not enough to notice).

Neil

Today’s plan was to spend some quality workshop time roughing out a crankcase. The plan worked this morning, but it has all gone wrong after lunch. I managed one cut in the mill, stopped to check a dimension, and now the spindle motor refuses to do anything.

To be fair, it has been showing signs of distress for some time, with the speed of the DC motor “hunting”, so the escape of some blue smoke was not unexpected. I have a spare controller board, but I would rather not have had to rip out the old wiring to fit a new, different board.

Sigh!

That’s an interesting point, Neil. I had assumed that, because it is a few decades old, the electronic bits would have gone geriatric, not the motor. This might take longer than I thought…

Dave

Hmm. Hadn't even thought of that. It's so much work to get rid of things that are cluttering up the shed!

My 3rd spindle 3D print seens to be the right one to make out of steel, I've modified the original spindle design to incorporate interchangeable heads so I can re-use the tail stock die holder ones and simplified the spindle itself rather than making a straight copy of the original

Well, that's what I think at the moment…

Was that made by Ivor Biggun by any chance?

You are assuming the rest of the world to be incompetent, and it usually is, but someone with a use for such a monster as this should be fairly well equipped for a bit of soldering.