Here is a list of all the postings Graham Stoppani has made in our forums. Click on a thread name to jump to the thread.
Thread: Paint prep |
01/03/2020 05:49:21 |
Dan Gelbart has some interesting things to say about surface prep. for painting on YouTube |
Thread: Warco Minor Mill - Spindle Lock |
22/02/2020 08:25:15 |
Posted by Bazyle on 21/02/2020 18:27:37:
By the way I think it is a Warco Major. The style of the base of the column is different from my monor and I doubt the little minor would have had an R8 option. It is the Minor, I own one as well. Also there's a picture with the model name on it in Mitch's album. That said, mine is MT3 and I wasn't aware they did an R8 option. |
Thread: New Nimrods arriving |
05/02/2020 09:26:24 |
Posted by Martin Connelly on 04/02/2020 13:15:21:
My wife's cousin has industrial deafness which he blames on being aircrew on Shackletons for many years. Martin C One of my lecturers at college studied hearing loss related to flying Shackletons many years ago. They found significant hearing impairment at certain frequencies at the end of long flights. After a couple of days rest the hearing at those frequencies came back. However, it was surely indicative of the likelihood of long term hearing damage due to repeated exposure. regards Graham |
Thread: Honda Brake Cable |
20/01/2020 14:34:03 |
Posted by Circlip on 19/01/2020 13:34:49:
Lever on brakeplate looks to be splined to shoe shaft? Have you got the lever on the correct spline position.?? Regards Ian. Ian beat me to it. You should be looking to have the cable at 90% to the lever on the drum as the brake shoes bite onto the drum to get the maximum mechanical advantage. |
Thread: First mill |
03/01/2020 13:17:11 |
I bought a used Warco Minor (RF-45 clone) from the classified section of this web site. Its MT3 and I haven't had any problem with that. Maintaining registration of the Z axis is a known issue with this type of round column mill/drill. What may be a deal breaker for you is getting it in your shed. You will need an engine hoist to assemble it even if you have broken it down to transport it and get it through the door as it weighs 300kg with a lot of that weight in the head casting. |
Thread: Stanley Blade Lathe Finishing Tool |
26/12/2019 10:30:01 |
Posted by Bob Stevenson on 26/12/2019 10:11:02:
Yes, I used to do this a lot when making brass instrument mouthpieces as turning the inside of the 'cup' is tricky for the beginner. I have used it when making clock pillars but have moved on now to a collection of steel washers with different edge modifications and sizes...this is a trick I gleaned from a visit to Boosey & Hawkes when they were still around and making brass instruments... I love the vid, by the way! Not thrilled by the use of the knurling tool decoration but that man knows exactly what he's doing and the results speak for themselves. Couldn't resits a picture of me with one of messrs B & H's instruments when I was a young lad (second bass from the right). |
26/12/2019 09:27:44 |
While researching using form tools on brass I came across this video. At 50 seconds the machinist starts using a stanley knife blade held in his bare hands to finish shaping a piece in the lathe. My first thoughts were that it looked very dangerous. Is this a technique anyone else has ever used? |
Thread: Bucket of Steam for Sale? |
18/12/2019 06:27:58 |
I see the classified ads section just got a bit more interesting last night I have a bucket of steam for sale made from the tears of unicorns (metric only I'm afraid). Please pay me in used nine bob notes, washed dollars or gold. Generous discounts available for the illuminati - make yourselves known to me in the usual way. International shipping available up to the 31st January, after that please arrange your own couriers as I'm blowed if I known what will be happening then, unless you live in Tonga, I hear we have a trade deal in place with you... |
Thread: Longer Articles... |
23/11/2019 06:10:25 |
Posted by Neil Wyatt on 22/11/2019 15:58:45:
If you have ideas for such longer articles, I'd be pleased to hear your suggestions and especially offers of articles (for longer articles PLEASE check with me first before writing a huge manuscript!) As a rough guide to length I have looked at a few of these that I have lined up, and they have around 4,000 words, a couple of dozen photos and about five A4 sheets of drawings This should work out at about three parts, or perhaps four slightly shorter parts. I feel your pain brother! I've just been editing down somebody's 10,000 word article to 3 instalments of about 1,500 words each. |
Thread: It's Myford Jim, but not as we know it! |
23/11/2019 05:53:24 |
Had a similar experience with ML7 gears from RDG a few years back. |
Thread: Loctite |
14/11/2019 07:45:56 |
I used to be the MD of a company supplying chemistry to the aerospace industry amongst others. As it happens we were also a subsidiary of Henkel (who own the Loctite brand) for a while. All our products were supplied with 'use by' dates not because they would degrade over time but because it was a requirement of our customers. The storage environment is the biggest variable in shelf life. One of our products was just a mixture of two salts, when asked for a use by date by one customer we tried to explain that in a damp warehouse one or two days at most but in a dry warehouse we could put as many millennia as they wanted! Another important variable is exposure to UV rays and the embrittlement of plastics. Likewise, some products will embrittle plastic over a period of time - HP sauce being a good example. That is why most sauce bottles have around five layers of different plastic in them. In the end we settled for a standard two year shelf life as that was what our customers wanted. Nice little earner for us as we would then charge to take back out of date product from the customer, re validate it and sell it back to them. Deep joy. |
Thread: Gandalf is broken |
22/10/2019 21:36:10 |
Builders expanding Foam Filler such as this? |
Thread: Anodising |
08/10/2019 07:44:08 |
Interested, but as I'm at the Midlands Model Engineering Show the day before and the Stafford Classic Motorcycle Show the day after I think I might be pushing my luck a bit! |
Thread: What's your favorite Dan Gelbart video |
06/10/2019 09:47:54 |
Just followed the link and watched his air bearing CNC machine. This guy is in another league compared to the Americans that post on YouTube. Thanks for posting the link. |
Thread: New tool post for my lathe |
03/10/2019 16:23:48 |
Posted by norman valentine on 03/10/2019 12:27:07:
The problem with the Dickson toolpots is that the toolholders are very expensive. The wedge type of toolpost has toolholders that are nearly half the price. Arceuro stock them. I would recommend a look at the ArcEurotrade wedge type tool posts as well. I changed over from a Dixon type on my Myford ML7 to one of these. They also stock a range of sizes of this type of tool post. |
Thread: I’m done with big pharma‼️ |
27/09/2019 20:00:21 |
Good old asprin. I have just started on a five year clinical trial of asprin following prostate cancer surgery. There is some evidence that taking asprin while in remission can reduce the chances of a reoccurrence. |
Thread: Boiler build abandoned ! |
27/09/2019 14:40:42 |
Hi Chris, I am no expert but at last year's Midlands Model Engineering Show I attended a lecture by Keith Hale from CuP Alloys that was all about silver soldering and brazing techniques. He has published a book called A Guide to Brazing and Soldering - everything you wanted to know about silver soldering but were afraid to ask! I have found it useful. |
Thread: Worried |
26/09/2019 10:03:02 |
I'm an ex-accountant and can still add up a column of figures in my head quicker than my son can on a calculator (and I'm much slower than I used to be). I love annoying him by giving him the answer half way through his calculations
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Thread: Pet peeves! |
16/08/2019 08:50:40 |
Why do manufacturers stamp the drill size just where the chuck jaws go? |
Thread: Hello from Northampton |
15/08/2019 18:12:16 |
Hi Jim, I'm based in Northampton as well. I have a Myford ML7 and a Warco Minor MIll/Drill. What I don't seem to have is the time to spend on them that I would like! regards Graham |
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