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Thank you MichaelG, I was aware of Austin.TX through following the exploits of a car restorers/reformers outfit at Johnson City, Austin.TX. My comment was a wordplay and probably unkind dig at Austin/UK's export drive.
DaveD

I would be surprised that Austin's export drive had been so apparently successful as to reach Texas.....
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That's the one ! Thank you for the refresh.
DaveD

at 76yr old I don't have a problem at this time but have given the process some thought for the future
Remove ER32 holder from mill spindle and assuming it has spanner flats on it,.place in vice and tighten up on the flats. Insert collet in ER nut, screw nut down on holder finger tight, insert cutter then apply 4-prong spanner to ball-bearing nut and tighten, two-handed on the spanner is now possible, wrapping spanner handle in cloth may help. This will be much easier than doing it two-contra-handed in mid-air on the mill whilst hoping the cutter doesn't fall out in the process. A rubber/hide hammer may assist with tightening/undoing the nut with the spanner.
As mentioned above, the ball-bearing nuts really do make a difference.
DaveD

Edited By Meunier on 28/09/2020 21:15:40

Interesting couple of days...yesterday (Friday ) late afternoon MrsD called me to look out and a cock pheasant and his lady were strutting along inside our boundary hedge. Today at around 2pm, checked the post with the dog and returning he stood and stared. A cock pheasant on the grass, joined at speed by another male and they proceeded to challenge each other, wings outstretched and heads down. Is that what is called 'lecking' ?
DaveD

Complete fail ! here is the missing link to the video mentioned...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv30kAL2D1c

DaveD

Following on from Jason's shaper video which I found most interesting was this automotive manufacturing video from 2008. Particularly liked the crankshaft forging part starting at 8:08 (can you guess yet what this lump will become ? )
DaveD

The interesting parts start at 2:00 in

Edited By Meunier on 26/09/2020 16:04:33

DaveD

Born Liverpool in 1944, moved to London 1951, only remember one tram journey out to Aintree when was told off for running down the aisle flipping all the seat backs in one direction then returning, tipping them all back again.
Remember taking Nan's glass radio 'accumulators' off to the chemists for recharging exchange service.
Only saw trolleybuses at Hounslow Wellington Rd terminus in 1961.
Remember Mum telling me that Dad had set off in uniform to rejoin his ship in Liverpool docks only to return next day because his ship had been bombed (before he got there) and was sunk in dock.
Photos of his destroyer on Arctic convoy duty when all the superstructure and rigging was foot thick in sea-spray ice and all crew on deck knocking the ice off before the ship turned turtle - that did happen, luckily not to his ship.
Almost too-quiet responses to questions about seeing ships going down, youngsters haven't acquired tact.
London 1952 and as mentioned above, the pea-souper fog.
Jack-the-lad in junior school had the habit (probably annoying) of finding a stick and running it along all the front-garden railings on the way home, a habit which served well for location purposes when the torch-man with the burning torch walking alongside in the gutter was the only way for the bus driver to know where he was going.
Contrasting in 1970's the treatment of council estate tenants in Harrow, where one street at a time temporarily re-housed the tenants, gutted the houses, re-roofed, insulated, double-glazed, new kitchens, sanitation, heating etc then returned the tenants with all their neighbours and moved on to the next street. In Liverpool they dispersed everybody in the street out to remote housing estates and demolished the street.
Didn't see trams again until Helsinki in mid-60's when all the trams appeared to be driven by women, and trolley-buses until San Francisco in the mid-70's
DaveD

That might prove to be a 'Popular' subject Peter

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Hoist with own petard Dave, methinks

DaveD

Angel Tears Oil?
Only from certified ex-pin-head-dancers, please
DaveD

No correction necessary Richard, it is indeed the regulator clock.
DaveD

Richard,
It's the only copy I have from that period which was due for recycling.
Part6, p439 VOL195 No 4258, 14OCT2005
DaveD

Richard, it may be of interest to you that John Wilding re-visited Claude B Reeve's musical clock. I remember seeing one of the articles somewhere between 2000 and 2010. Sorry cannot be more precise but a good bet that somebody on here can point you to what appeared to be a series.
DaveD

yes, a hot-wire cauteriser I believe, similar to a hot-wire foam cutter but much more expensive !
DaveD

p.s on the prelim visit to gastro-enterologist I asked how far up it went. He showed me on a wall diagram, with general anaesthetic, all the way to the top of the small bowel, turn left at the appendix, all the way to the far end of the large bowel.

Mention of devices specially made to introduce leads me to comment....
Having on several occasions taken a few moments to regard the end of the ...ermm...endoscope before I had to lie down and wait for the anaesthetic administration, it is much smaller than the device shown...thankfully.
The doctor/nurse were intrigued that a patient would rather investigate the equipment (visually) than 'get on with it'
DaveD

p.s it takes clear, colour photos of the insides too.

Follow these instructions for adding photos.

https://www.model-engineer.co.uk/forums/postings.asp?th=103028

DaveD

Speedy5 is in the (French) ball-park.
A slab of markedly second-hand ali complete with a couple of holes, approx 300x200x40mm out of the local metal distributor scrap bin was 3€/Kg late last year. 4kg=12€
DaveD