Member postings for Michael Gilligan

Even if it was affordably cheap, this would still be disappointing

... but, at the listed price

**LINK**

https://drivetribe.com/p/mercedes-unveils-weathered-mercedes-D-iZ74VYT6-6R6FdcSPWiw

MichaelG.

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Vic, for info. ^^^

MichaelG.

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Perhaps because ‘one L’ is the real DPD man, and ‘two L’ is the innocent whose address has been hi-jacked.
... I found watson804 mentioned here: **LINK**

https://www.railfuture.org.uk/DL162

It looks like ‘railfuture’ Phil Watson’s identity may have been ‘borrowed’

MichaelG.

Mr Watson’s eMail address shows as: watson804@btinternet.com

... but of course he may be an innocent victim.

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Yes, it was all pre-ordained EU-wide ... UK only ‘adopted early’ because we exited.

MichaelG.

Seems logical ... VAT notionally collected at the point of import.

MichaelG.

We collected the Nissel on Wednesday ... all went surprisingly well:

Seller helped me lift it [complete with his little ‘sack barrow’] onto my decorator’s hop-up, and I then slid it into the Suzuki. ... Trickiest part was then removing the sack barrow from under the machine !!

It’s very dirty and there are a few scratches from previous attempts at cleaning, but basically it all seems good.

Lots to learn, and lots of tidying to do ... but meanwhile I have this for inspiration

**LINK** : https://all-in-optics.de/prototyping-eng/

Scroll down to the ‘Diamond-cutting’ paragraph, and watch the video !!

MichaelG.

Free download available here: **LINK**

http://www.opensourcemachinetools.org/archive-manuals/Cutting-Tool-Applications.pdf

MichaelG.

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Also, several other items of potential interest: **LINK**

http://opensourcemachinetools.org/wordpress/how-to-documentsarticles/

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I feel obliged to ask : Did you read the DEF-STAN ?

MichaelG.

Sorry, Howard ... I think you are perhaps missing the point that the dangers of apparently innocuous materials like Lead were not appreciated until quite recently.

We used Lead-based pigments in the paint on Baby’s toys and cot ... and gave the poor little thing tap-water that had flowed through miles of Lead pipe. None of the danger in this is revealed by “common sense” ... only by science, and the dissemination of information.

MichaelG.

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I would say that’s at least 0.24mm too much

... dead-on, or just a touch high, would be preferable.

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An excellent find, Peter

MichaelG.

I bet Galileo would be impressed !

**LINK**

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/see-the-first-images-nasa-s-juno-took-as-it-sailed-by-ganymede

MichaelG.

UPDATE

I have just found this:

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**LINK** http://www.terrysutcliffe.com/?p=378

... It may be worth contacting Terry Sutcliffe for an opinion.

MichaelG.

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I agree that would certainly be the more standard arrangement, David

But if anyone is likely to have devised a clever alternative, it would be Wolf Jahn.

I wonder if Peter’s lathe is an attempt [previously unseen by me] to produce a satisfactory bearing arrangement without the need for opposed double-taper assemblies ... It looks like this might be a master-stroke of Production Engineering.

MichaelG.

This is not the spindle configuration that you have ... but it’s interesting viewing anyway:

**LINK**

https://youtu.be/DL6oKA8vXs0

MichaelG.

I am almost sure that the pulley provides the necessary surface

... You will, of course, have noticed that the front bearing is ‘double taper’.

This is the classic arrangement for Geneva lathes.

The steep front taper is non-locking, so the very shallow taper behind it should never be able to lock-up.

... Normal use would never impose the force that you put on it whilst trying to remove the chuck.

MichaelG.

The referenced website will give you the story: **LINK**

https://www.p65warnings.ca.gov

But if you’ve lived in Birmingham for a while, you have probably already ingested orders-of-magnitude more Lead than 63% of Californians would consider safe.

MichaelG.

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Thanks Clive

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I’m sure you are correct, Mike: **LINK**

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/194185868595

MichaelG.