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[dcostaParticipant @dcosta]

Hello all,

Russel: Nice one – but doesn't the swarf stick to the sushi when you roll it?
DC: No. This risk exists because I eat and work at different times.
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Danny M: Creative thinking Dias. Well done.
DC: Nice story. Thank you.
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Bazile – Perhaps adding very thin plastic to the back or between two layers would also keep out the finer stuff. It does look like a nice solution to other chip control problems like the sides as long as you don't need to see through it.
DC: In my opinion, the use of plastic is a good idea, but not sandwiched because the result would be too thick. But the plastic can be sewn in some points of some elements of the shutter. Or alternatively the length of the blind may be dimensioned so that the elements are closer by their own weight one over the other.
Bazyle: For faster delivery I believe one of the site advertisers does a range of bellows.
DC: Yes, you're right. ArcEuroTrade (AET) is one of those advertisers and has a very fast delivery system. It's a pitty it's not cheaper! It is a pity that the dimensions of the bellows they sell are not compatible with my milling machine.
Thank you.

Dias Costa

Edited By dcosta on 19/10/2013 15:10:27

[mechman48Participant @mechman48]

'…too much far eastern junk on sale.' … only to be expected, where do you think all of the stuff comes from! The major suppliers Arc Euro / Chronos / Axminster / Warco / Chester etc.., all get their stuff from, China / India, with some items coming from Poland, Czech republic (Tos etc.). if you were looking for a UK manufacturer, best of luck, even RDG /Greenwoods / Glanze get a lot of their stuff from the same Asian / eastern sources, even Screwfix / Toolstation / B&Q have a lot of stuff marked 'Made in China / India / Eastern Europe'…UK manufacturer…dream on!

The only truly British owner/manufacturer, that I can recall, that is still in British hands is Morgan, (Land Rover is owned by Tata India IIRC, etc.) so if you're in the market for a Morgan + 2, & have £40K + to spare…? So unless there is an Entrepreneur out there with a few tens of millions to invest in engineering tooling, with a particular bent to model engineering, we're stuck with Asian / Chinese / East European imports (junk?). the only recourse I can see for UK stuff is car boot sales or auctions (ex school/college/training equip't).

During this past year as I have set my 'workshop' (man cave) up I have a fair amount of tooling purchases, cutters, digital DTI, mic's etc. from the far east & I would honestly say the better quality stuff I have got thru' CTC (Hong Kong)… 'usual disclaimer'… they seem to have better quality control in place. I also have older stuff 'Starret / Moore & Wright (UK) / Snap on (US) etc.. but these were 'obtained ' over the last 50 yrs or so, so considering the economic climate & the far eastern burgeoning economy then I expect a lot more 'junk' to be available, we'll have to live with it.

Apologies for the diatribe & no offence intended, but I try to live & work with what's available at the moment, be it good or bad.

George

[Old SchoolParticipant @oldschool]

I use flange nuts for holding the chuck on my Myford 254S and they work well. They are the same type of nuts as used in milling machine clamping sets and are available from Arc Euro.

[lancelotParticipant @lancelot]

The past few days spent ordering drills…set of BA taps and dies…short series carbide slot cutters…set of stub drills…set of long series end mills …1/2'' reamer…set of BA thread chasers…two magnetic based led light units…8'' digital height guage…the vendors…Kirjeng…Arceuro…Tracytools. I think that I am pretty well sorted with tooling, yesterday I checked all machines running o/k,sorted out the drawings for the Coombes and managed to find the remaining unmachined parts of the engine…I am now rather looking forward to completing it.

[David GParticipant @davidg]

I was there all day yesterday and noticed it was quite busy, should have taken sandwiches and a flask of something hot, but people started to thin out in the afternoon and you could then get a good look at everything.

Good show I think although a shame that some of the larger players where missing, ArcEuro, Chronos, Reeves.

Will go again next year.

Dave

[NilochParticipant @niloch]

Not only Hemigway and Arceurotrade, I failed to see Chronos and Reeves at the Midland M.E. Show either. Despite a growing metalworking inventory, much of it Sieg, the Axminster stand was disappointingly small. I'm not in business but I'm guessing that RDG and Warco must be rubbing their hands together with glee.

A newish van with Myford signage was parked for all to see quite near the entrance, I thought to myself that someone understands the psychology of marketing here.

After the closure of the northbound A34 at East Ilsley we arrived late, the car-park was almost full. A friend was running 'Paul the CAD's' stand for the owner, he was kept very busy.

[Richard MarksParticipant @richardmarks80868]

Kevin

First thing to do is contact Arc Euro Trade and Keiran will help you to decide and will supply the correct bearings,

I have no association with them but have always got good advice and good prices.

Dick

[Sub MandrelParticipant @submandrel]

Are you wedded to the idea of that particular spindle? If no these from Arc might do LINK

Neil

[SteamgeekParticipant @steamgeek]

Has anyone completed this modification **LINK** to convert the ML7 cross slide leadscrew to thrust bearings ?

Mine has a fair bit of backlash on the cross slide, which is to be expected for a lathe that was built before I was born, and I found this solution and wondered if anyone has actually completed the mod and what their thoughts are.

[John Stevenson 1Participant @johnstevenson1]

Shawn,

Yes easily done go to ArcEuro's home page

http://www.arceurotrade.co.uk/default.aspx

Let the adverts scroll up and there is one for keyway broaches with a pdf file of how to do it.

 

Cut the internal ones first as these are set in stone by virtue of the cutter used, then do the external shaft and adjust depth of cut to get the right fit.

Edited By John Stevenson on 07/10/2013 12:39:34

[SteambuffParticipant @steambuff]

Corey,

Important question … What is your budget for the lathe and essential tooling?

Take a look at the ArcEuroTrade web site to give you some idea of costs for a reasonable chinese lathe, if you are based in the UK, give them a ring .. they will answer any questions you may have and advise you. (They also offer excellent pre-post sales support)

Dave

[Ketan SwaliParticipant @ketanswali79440]

Hi Graham,

From a commercial point of view, your comments are interesting and create a dilemma. Please bare with me, as I am trying to approach this with a positive view. You may not see it that way, and I apologise in advance to you and to anyone to whom this may cause offence.

1. Your photos on here are on a public forum, and to the best of my knowledge, they can be used by MTM, in accordance with their forum terms and conditions, without consulting you. You may wish to run this by your solicitors before talking about litigation by any party.

As your photo is not officially published in a magazine, and as you have accepted MTM forums Ts & Cs at the time of joining, there is no issue of their expressly obtaining specific permission from you, so, with the greatest of respect, the question of ‘courtesy’ does not arise in this forum based environment, regardless of either one of us agreeing or disagreeing to this point.

So, for example, after accepting MTM forums Ts & Cs, if you publish a picture on here which you later use in any book or anywhere else, the issue of permission is between you and that publisher. That publisher has no specific case against MTMs – forum based platform!

So, please relax. In a situation such as above, I fail to see how this can be a litigation issue for your third party publisher.

2. If you fail to accept MTMs Ts & Cs, then you have to ask MTM to remove all your pictures from this site, along with your threads, which they may or may not agree to, which is something between them and you. But, what will all this achieve?

At the end of the day, your threads and pictures which you post on this forum are the key marketing medium for you, and in my opinion, they only serve to assist your publisher. These pictures and threads help you, in the same way as they help Harold Hall, to promote all your books – old or new. If you don’t agree with this comment, sure you can get yourself removed from here and join another forum, which is up to you.

However, you will have lost the entire marketing PR which you have built up here for you and your book/s. In turn, this could affect sales for your book/s. Whether you agree or disagree with the Tc & Cs, this forum has a far greater world ranking = marketing reach then many others you care to frequent.

So, if you talk about permissions – which MTM doesn’t need to obtain if you post on this forum, which in turn could lead to yourself coming off because you do not accept MTMs Ts & Cs, then you are only wasting your energy and affecting your health.

So, I am sorry if this has offended you in any way, but if you chose to accept this forum as a marketing medium, knowingly or unknowingly, then there are some consequences and compromises you have to make, as we all do, including me at Arc Euro Trade Ltd. Again, I say this with the greatest of respect.

Keep well Graham.

Ketan at ARC.

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Chris,

Let me start the ball rolling …

Unless you intend to keep transferring "mounted" work between the lathe and the mill, I would recommend getting a 4-jaw that mounts [preferably from the front] with cap-screws.

You have 3 slots on your table, and a typical 4-jaw would have four holes … so you will need to make an adapter plate. It should be bigger diameter than the chuck, so that it forms a flange. [unfortunately this is all getting raher tight on an HV4]

Bore a central hole in that plate; probably the size of the hole in the chuck, and definitely bigger than MT2.

Four tapped holes for the chuck fixings, and three clearance holes for the tee-slot fixings.

……..

In use:

First … Centre the rotary table; lock any slides on the machine; and zero any readings.

Then … Position the workpiece, using the 4-jaw, or vice, or clamps as appropriate.

Now you can unlock the slides and reposition the whole assembly using the slides.

Before you start cutting: Remember to lock everything except the movement that's in use.

….

MichaelG.

 

Edit:  Posting was delayed by lunch; so others have beaten me to it.

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 02/10/2013 13:14:40

Edit: Link to slim front-mounted chucks

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 02/10/2013 13:25:24

[SteambuffParticipant @steambuff]

Posted by JasonB on 01/10/2013 21:27:37:

As V8 says the web page takes up the whole width of the screen on an iPad but when viewed on the PC there is a lot of wasted white space down the sides.

J

I am seeing the same … the higher the screen resolution the bigger the white gap …. I suspect that the site has been developed to be xxxx pixels wide … bad web design in my view … it should look at the screen resolution and scale accordingly.

The other thing I don't like is the narrow column down the right hand side … it is the usual convension is to have the narrow column down the left hand side. (as per Windows Explorer, Arc Euro Site, Ebay, Tee Publishing etc) This site just looks and feels wrong.

Dave

Edited By Steambuff on 02/10/2013 05:49:44

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

Arc do some reasonably priced individual nuts etc as well

Edited By JasonB on 28/09/2013 20:32:00

[Bill RobleyParticipant @billrobley]

I just wanted to post this to say a huge thank you to Ketan at Arc Euro Trade.

Whilst on holiday in the area my partner and I decided to visit AET as I wanted to buy a few items. The building is easy to miss if you are not careful as it’s on a largely domestic street, but, knowing pretty much what I was looking for, thanks to Google maps we found it quite easily.

Upon entering, I was initially a little disappointed that there was little facility for wandering around to look at the stock items but understand that there are space limitations.

That aside, I was pleasantly surprised by the warm welcome we received.

Ketan took a good deal of time out of his busy day (they were planning the new catalogue at the time) to chat with us for about an hour and a half including an impromptu look at the workshop with the biggest milling machine I have seen, and his good lady wife provided us with tea.

As I made my purchase and was preparing to leave, Ketan told us about the nearby country park and then practically insisted upon driving us there (we arrived at AET on the bus from Leicester) and showing us the nearby pub without accepting our offer to buy him a drink.

While I appreciate that all (Most) companies will treat potential customers with a smile and at least TRY to be helpful, I feel that Ketan and his wife went way beyond that and deserve a plug from a VERY satisfied customer who will, in future be buying anything I need from Arc.

I should add that I have no connection with AET other than being a customer and Ketan has (had) no idea that this was going to be written.

[Sub MandrelParticipant @submandrel]

If you do need one again Arc Euro are very prompt and Ketan started out specialising in bearings.

Gray's estimate of cost is right within pence.

Neil

[RobboParticipant @robbo]

Big H,

The original Myford oilers did not have the toggle to switch them on and off , just a screw down needle so it had to be set every time it had been turned off. This type had 2 filler caps on the glass dome.

Myford later supplied replacements which had the toggle lever.

If you have one of the first type,. Turn the screw down to turn off the drip, and unscrew it to start and increase the drip. If you take it out you will find a long needle with a fine spring round it.

If these are the springs missing, then buy some replacement oilers. Cheaper ones available from ArcEuroTrade.

Phil

[Rik ShawParticipant @rikshaw]

I am trying to avoid feelings of guilt about not working on the next model by knocking up a bit of tooling. A carriage stop is on the cards as next job. I would like to incorprate a micrometer head like this:

**LINK**

but as it will be installed on the left side of the carriage/apron the readings will be upside down. I have had a pretty good search but cannot find any supplier who sells these heads for the opposite "hand".

Are the upsidedowners available?

Rik

[Jerry WrayParticipant @jerrywray14030]

I note with interest Michael's post above which links you US sources.

If you don't have an interest in safety of chemicals don't bother reading ths, it's tedious but as this is my day job I feel I need to contribute to the sum of human misery by a short teach-in.

Regrettable these give a somewhat restricted view of the toxicology of PTFE.(Cas RN:9002-84-0). Congess has recently decided to implement the GHS (Globally Harmonised System of Classification and Labelling) to address shortcomings in the present system,which willin the future require any MSDS to actually provide information rather than generalities. US MSDSs are not valid in the EU.

The relevant EU document is known by the acronym SDS (Safety Data Sheet). These contain specific information conforming to regulation and based on validated testing regimes.The ECHA (European Chemicals Agency) based in Helsinki is managing the REACH system and publishes various pieces of data. If you go to their website **LINK**
and key into the search box the CAS number 9002-84-0 (not forgetting to tick the agreement box you will find the EU Harmonised classification which indicates in coded form the various hazards of this chemical.

Further searches within the ECHA website will reveal the basis of this information; which is backed by peer review. Details of how to carry out such searches are beyond the scope of this post.

I warned above that this was going to be tedious.

In the end the ECHA classification confirms that PTFE is as bad, possibly worse than Michael has indicated.

Happy reading.

Jerry

[lee hawkins 1Participant @leehawkins1]

Hello

I have recently purchased a mini lathe, just waiting for delivery, I checked out all the suppliers, and settled on the Amadeal version CJ18A , 7X14 mini lathe, When checking through the dealers websites, I noticed on Arceurotrade they had published a article regarding changing the standard fitted Shaft Bearings for Angular contact bearings, so I started searching the web for information,,as I have been led to understand it, is that the standard 6206-ZZ ball bearings of which are (deep grooved variety) are not up to the job, So to me, what they are saying then is that these standard 6206-ZZ do not take Axial loads? also various people who have changed the bearings on their mini lathes are also saying that their work is more Accurate and better finish and the lathe is now easier to work with.?

Having done some studying on all the various bearings the 6206-ZZ being deep grooved should be/work perfectly fine on the mini lathe. they were designed to take Axial and radial loads

I have not got my Lathe yet but I am looking forward to finding out if this is all true?, and it's not just being put out by people who just like tinkering and stripping things apart or maybe money is being made somewhere along the line

Appreciate anyone thoughts on this

Regards

lee

[Ketan SwaliParticipant @ketanswali79440]

Do you mean something like this, just added to Arc's website.?

**LINK**

the 12mm x 12mm ones have an average overall length of 93mm.

[dcostaParticipant @dcosta]

Hello all!

I bought an 8" Mini Shear and Bending Brake from ArcEuroTrade (AET) and have already proceeded to clean and assembly it as recommended, I think. The manual that come with the tool apparently is not written by someone whose mother tongue is English and only supports assembling.
After mounting already tried to cut and bend thin metal sheet and was impressed.
But, as I've never used a tool like this, I'm afraid of not having it tuned properly.
If anybody own a tool like the one I bought I would like to know:
1 – Is it normal to hear the two blades rubbing on each other when moving the blade up and down without cutting any material?
2 – What criteria shall I use for the tuning of the laminae of the shearing part?
2 – Is there any recommendation that I should follow to not make mistakes and get the most out of the tool?
3 – On the site of AET no reference to the replacement blades. What to do if and when the blades become blunt?

Thanks in advance
Dias Costa

Edited By dcosta on 12/09/2013 19:26:32

[Sub MandrelParticipant @submandrel]

If interested, look at: Arc's one shot oiling system

Neil