Beginners questions

Beginners questions

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- 8 April 2025 at 12:31
  parovoz
- Drawing Projections 1 2 … 6 7
  Started by: Wolfie
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- 29 May 2025 at 17:59
  SillyOldDuffer
- Help recommend a milling machine? 1 2
  Started by: richard1989
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- 6 August 2025 at 11:36
  JasonB
- Cutting down a linear glass DRO encoder
  Started by: Robin Graham
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- 5 August 2025 at 20:41
  Mark Hall
- Ultra Newcomer Lathe Setup Query
  Started by: Brahma
- 10
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- 5 August 2025 at 19:49
  Dave Halford
- Mary beam engine
  Started by: richard davis 2
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- 4 August 2025 at 12:31
  richard davis 2
- Cutting thin slots in 12mm mild steel
  Started by: Peter Simpson 3
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- 4 August 2025 at 10:10
  Robin
- Beginner with newly bought lathe – many questions 1 2
  Started by: ell81
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- 3 August 2025 at 20:17
  peterrivers
- Transwave converter – plugged in motor, tripped RCD
  Started by: ell81
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- 1 August 2025 at 18:42
  Robert Atkinson 2
- My vise isn’t at 90 degrees 1 2
  Started by: moonman
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- 30 July 2025 at 09:59
  Bernard Wright
- How to sharpen expanding reamer blades & how to adjust them?
  Started by: Grindstone Cowboy
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- 25 July 2025 at 11:35
  Grindstone Cowboy
- Polishing compounds for stainless steel (mild abrasives))
  Started by: Simon Williams 3
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- 23 July 2025 at 17:18
  Michael Gilligan
- Bad design, or am I missing something?
  Started by: half whit
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- 20 July 2025 at 19:16
  Julie Ann
- Please direct me to where I can find an engineer to do some bespoke work
  Started by: srb1
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- 20 July 2025 at 15:43
  Craig Brown
- Bearing boxes for ball race
  Started by: Paul McDonough
- 11
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- 9 July 2025 at 20:38
  old mart
- M type top slide conversion??
  Started by: jimmyjaffa
- 7
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- 6 July 2025 at 14:20
  David George 1
- Wickseed power hacksaw 8” information
  Started by: simonkeeligan@me.com
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- 6 July 2025 at 07:44
  Nicholas Farr
- Boxford lathe & vertical mill VFD conversion help with start stop
  Started by: Andrew Schofield
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- 5 July 2025 at 11:39
  Clive Brown 1
- Haining vertical dairy engine boiler.
  Started by: apprentice
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- 2 July 2025 at 20:52
  JasonB
- Motor won’t start
  Started by: Rowan Sylvester-Bradley
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- 2 July 2025 at 17:30
  larry phelan 1
- Wiring up a single phase AC motor with 4 wires
  Started by: ell81
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- 30 June 2025 at 19:49
  Howard Lewis
- Workshop Practice Series – Books
  Started by: flatline
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- 24 June 2025 at 18:30
  duncan webster 1
- First cuts with the lathe 1 2 3
  Started by: Chris12
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- 23 June 2025 at 22:47
  Andrew Crow
- Sieg C1 lathe autofeed and screw cutting 1 2
  Started by: Rob Athome
- 16
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- 23 June 2025 at 22:16
  Martin of Wick
- Milling in the lathe – Vertical slide 1 2
  Started by: Chris12
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- 20 June 2025 at 18:44
  Roger B
- Is there an alternative to tufnol strip for springing
  Started by: steve2250
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- 19 June 2025 at 12:20
  Dave Wootton
- Rotary table question.
  Started by: larry phelan 1
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- 19 June 2025 at 08:51
  larry phelan 1

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