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WORKSHOP LIGHTING

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Neil Wyatt

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24 July 2014

Recently, I moved both house and home workshop. The new workshop had minimal lighting and unsafe electrics, so a complete rethink was called for. The existing lighting and power points were ripped out and a fresh start made using more suitable modern equipment, selected to make the best of the space available. On the lighting…
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Use of Magnetic Chucks for Milling and Turning

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Neil Wyatt

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24 July 2014

Interestingly they avocate climb milling over normal milling, where the machine is capable of this, as the forces tend to press the work down onto the chuck. In general the use of stops and jigs is advocated to ensure work cannot easily be dislodged. Take note that when it is desired to mill around the…
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Free Plan: Light Duty Filing Machine

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Neil Wyatt

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14 July 2014

The article that accompanies the plan can be downloaded from the archives. Please take special care to ensure the safety guard is well made and fitted – a poke in the eye from a needle file would not be pleasant! As usual, the full size plan is contained in these two lowres jpeg files and…
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Nicholson The Guide to Files and Filing

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Neil Wyatt

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3 July 2014

These documents should be of interest to all hobby and model engineers. This 2006 version of their guidance, by Cooper Hand Tools in the USA has been put into the public domain: Nicholson The Guide to Files and Filing by Cooper Hand Tools, 2006 You can access the 1878 Edition here: A Treatise on Files…
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Mini Lathe Changewheel Tables

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Neil Wyatt

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27 June 2014

As published, the tables were for lathes with 16 t.p.i. and 1.5mm pitch leadscrews, as that covers the majority of mini-lathes. Some mini-lathes have 2mm pitch leadscrews, and extra tables for such lathes are included here. Note that these are not necessarily practical in all cases, and a few variations have been found that work…
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Screw Thread Measurement Utility

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Neil Wyatt

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18 June 2014

The three wire method gives very accurate figures for the truesize of screw threads by measuring from the flanks of the V rather than from the crest of the threads. As the crest are normally truncated, measuring across them gives a false reading. The problem with the three-wire approach is the complex trigniometry involved! This…
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Free Plan: Swing Clear Rear Toolpost

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Neil Wyatt

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25 May 2014

The full size plan is contained in these two jpeg files and accompanying pdf versions: Swing Clear Toolpost Plan side 1 Swing Clear Toolpost Side 2 Alternatively, the plan can be downloaded as a series of overlapping printable Pdf pages which can be used to assemble a paper version: Page 1 Page 2 Page 3…
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Free Plan: Rotary Table

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Neil Wyatt

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16 May 2014

The full size plan is contained in these two jpeg files and accompanying pdf versions: http://www.model-engineer.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/documents/rotary%20table%20side%20(1).pdf http://www.model-engineer.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/documents/rotary%20table%20side%20(2).pdf Alternatively, the plan can be downloaded as a series of overlapping printable Pdf pages which can be used to assemble a paper version: http://www.model-engineer.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/documents/rotary%20table%20page%20(1).pdf http://www.model-engineer.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/documents/rotary%20table%20page%20(2).pdf http://www.model-engineer.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/documents/rotary%20table%20page%20(3).pdf http://www.model-engineer.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/documents/rotary%20table%20page%20(4).pdf http://www.model-engineer.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/documents/rotary%20table%20page%20(5).pdf http://www.model-engineer.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/documents/rotary%20table%20page%20(6).pdf http://www.model-engineer.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/documents/rotary%20table%20page%20(7).pdf http://www.model-engineer.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/documents/rotary%20table%20page%20(8).pdf With thanks to Nicholas Farr for scanning…
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Cutting Speeds Table for Teach In 2014

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Neil Wyatt

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9 May 2014

There were two minor errors in the cutting speed table in David Clark's Teach In article in issue 216 of Model Engineer's Workshop, caused by errrors in the spreadsheet. As this is such a useful chart, a pdf copy is reproduced here, which can be printed out and stuck up in the workshop. www.model-engineer.co.uk/…/documents/cutting speed…
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Simple Gearing for Metric Threads on Myford ML7 lathes with gearboxes

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Neil Wyatt

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30 March 2014

Unfortunately a number of errors crept in to the large and complex gear tables in the artilce. Brian has now checked each gear combination individually, and prepared a corrected PDF version, one table to a page, which can be downloaded HERE. The individual pages can be printed off and laminated to give a handy workshop…
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