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Four months work !
stunning result yet at first glance the original looked quite simple/minimalist, difficult to express.
DaveD
The original intention of fret/piercing saw work was good too.

What the Ell is everybody on about ?

Or am I playing in a different League ?

DaveD

Edited By Meunier on 30/06/2020 19:08:27

Her name wouldn't be Rosemary by any chance ?
DaveD
Nicely done on the plugs, by the way.

Edited By Meunier on 22/06/2020 19:01:07

I suspect they are on loan from pneumatic tube flow-control duties.
DaveD

Although I am not familiar with the area, mention of Brighouse and Rastrick brings us neatly back to the topic of music in the workshop !
DaveD

Fascinating, I will postpone venturing down this rabbit-hole until later.
("No, it's OK dear you can leave the dusting to me " )
Thank you MichaelG
DaveD

Still, you have got a nice under-coat to start from !
DaveD

Nigel, your nbr 3 should move to nbr 1. All motor mfrs have to meet an EU economy/CO2 target, averaged across the whole range of vehicles they make. If they don't meet that target, they have to pay a financial penalty levied on every vehicle they produce. Still leaves user-friendliness in last place.
DaveD

Lucky you were not inputting figures into a navigation system !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2nlyMIi610

DaveD

Welcome Mike,

Have also just recently taken delivery of a GH1230, not done any work on it yet, be interested in your opinions. One recommendation is not to try to drain the headstock oil via the drain plug.Your experience may differ but I found that despite all precautions the oil went everywhere. I changed tack and took off the top-cover and siphoned off all the old oil, finishing up with vacuuming the last dregs out.
What did you think of the 'user manual' ! ? I found a good manual with the PrecisionMatthews GH1236 at https://www.precisionmatthews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/PM-1236-v4-1-2017-indd.pdf
Also a series of unpacking/assembly you-tube videos from PrimaDilna
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEYX-i1F9G8

Hope that helps, I am also a bit far from S.Wilts here in S.W France

DaveD

Back in the mid 70's had to mount a modem on a shelf in the cargo shed at Frankfurt airport.
Had arrived well-prepared with a pistol-drill, masonry bits and fixings - no chance.
One of the guys went to the stores and came back with a Kango drill and bits - also no chance.
Eventually we had to wait for a guy with a permit for a cartridge gun to set the anchors in -
Bang x4 - job done.
Tried a cartridge gun for myself some time later and found out the hard way that one needed
to choose the correct coloured cartridge otherwise the fixing would disappear 25mm below the surface
With the possible exception of MikePoole's Mum's bungalow, that was the hardest surface I ever found,
suspect the concrete panels had been chilled.
DaveD

Edited By Meunier on 20/05/2020 19:16:20

I wonder if Jason is involved in Mig/Tig welding, if so, coupled with the previous suggestion that Jason is a nom-de-plume for three people, then they could well be 'Jason and the argon-nauts'
Hat, coat and attestation in hand.
DaveD

Have recently ordered grease-gun and grease from those guys in your link, good service.

DaveD

Hear, Hear! - my vote of thanks also.

DaveD

Chris, under the member's avatar - forum posts link - click on this and it shows all their posts.
DaveD

Ketan, another positive report. Ordered 25mm indexable end mill, two apmt bits and 8mm alu long end-mill on Sunday 12th, despatched when you opened Tues14th and arrived in SW France yesterday, Tuesday. Thank you to you and your team.

DaveD

Edited By Meunier on 22/04/2020 05:59:12 it's now Wednesday...

Edited By Meunier on 22/04/2020 06:00:46

That's a magic number in comms. The first modem we received from the US in 1964 was 2400 baud.
Made by ITT and built like the proverbial, about 18ins x 12 x 18 with the individual plug-in modules enclosed in square alu frames and edge-connectors down.
Later came 4800/1200/300/150/75 baud modems.
The 1200 baud modems went to Paris and the PTT had to type-approve them and stuck engraved brass labels on each one. (he's rambling again...)
DaveD

Way back in 1959 I was working as trainee instrument maker and one of the staff was a big shambling guy called 'Big' I used to chat with him as he was an interesting person to talk to, very friendly and used to turn up on the most interesting bikes, usually with side-car. Some days a big Velo and sometimes an Indian four-in-line.
One of his hobbies was supporting his two sons with their karting endeavours and I was invited to meet them and perhaps join them on an outing.
Not only did he have the Velos at home but also a Brough Superior and a Scott Squirrel, he wouldn't let me ride them though.....
We went to Tilbury kart track and I got some driving in for a few months until his sons moved on, not sure of the kart make but fairly basic with a Clinton chain-saw engine. Wow, that was a revelation after the James Cavalier.
DaveD

Did a contract in early '90s in Rotterdam on the 17th floor of an office building overlooking the quayside on the Maas.
The SmitTak floating crane barges would occasionally park outside the office and we would watch the crew shimmying up the ladders to the jib? boom? tops to grease the pulleys - we had to look up at them overhead from 17th flr.
DaveD

Edited By Meunier on 05/04/2020 20:15:39

Many thanks from me too, Andrew. Any day when one learns something new is a successful day.
DaveD