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[ZanParticipant @zan]

I use sulphuric acid. Very effective at removing the mess it comes off as very thin flakes. Also discovered by chance that it also removes the black mill scale found on thicker steel plate, a tiny rub with the finger will remove it with ease. Obviously take sensible precautions and rinse well. Essential to oil or prime the component straight away or it will quickly gains red colour!

Edited By Zan on 04/03/2018 20:57:33

[Anonymous]

Posted by Zan on 04/03/2018 09:34:59:

Speed and depth of cut is usually limited by stopping the saw slipping in the holder…………..

That's why manufacturers provide a cutout for a key.

Andrew

[ZanParticipant @zan]

The uc100 needs a specific Mach 3 obtainable from their website. I have problems with mine with "uc100 not detected" it's been tracked down to the USB cable not being fully secure in the uc100 dongle it's a poor connection. It gets lost say every 10-15 startups

Check there are two LEDs lit on the dongle itself

Edited By Zan on 03/03/2018 18:34:41

[David ColwillParticipant @davidcolwill19261]

Posted by Robin on 27/02/2018 09:45:00:

I felt a sudden, irresistible urge to shop. I think I just paid 30 quid for a pointed stick that might be useful for scraping gunge off stuff

*LINK*

Possibly foolish but I couldn't help myself. It is the most exquisitely fashioned, pointed, scrapy thing I have ever seen in my life

Lets face it we all need a pointy scrapey thing! Are you going to keep it for special pointy scrapey jobs or will it be used for all? I have to admit to being slightly envious and am eagerly awaiting updates on this.

Regards David.

Ps I think this merits its own thread!

[RobinParticipant @robin]

I felt a sudden, irresistible urge to shop. I think I just paid 30 quid for a pointed stick that might be useful for scraping gunge off stuff

*LINK*

Possibly foolish but I couldn't help myself. It is the most exquisitely fashioned, pointed, scrapy thing I have ever seen in my life

[Frederic FrenereParticipant @fredericfrenere44328]

Money is no object? I buy a Cazaneuve. In the real world, the V10P Maximat has served my family well and is as old as I.
Fred.

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by ian j on 12/02/2018 11:47:30:

Neil.

"I've 3D printed a holder for it, with a Lion battery, a 5V USB charger board, switch and a buck regulator board for 12V."

Do you have a link to these parts you bought?

Not the suppliers I used but the same modules:

Charger module

Booster/regulator

[Andy CarruthersParticipant @andycarruthers33275]

Hi Bill, I own a Locksmith and Glazing company and occasionally go out on the tools to keep my hand in – the reason I joined this forum is to develop lock picks, I have a couple in-flight

Brizant Ultion locks are 3* anti snap, anti pick, anti drill, probably the highest security locks on the market with a manufacturer backed guarantee of £1,000 if anyone gains entry through the lock into your property. Having said that, I recently went on a course and learnt how to pick them. Expect to pay ~£75 per lock fitted, we buy in bulk at a significant discount – subject to not infringing advertising rules, there are ways to reduce costs, PM if interested

For additional security, fit a couple of sash jammers to the frames on the inside which will prevent low life from getting in even if they breach the lock

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

I don't think the lister in George's video was running as a true diesel as he was using model aircraft fuel and got it going as a compression diesel.

Our forum member Johan Van Zantan has made a very good true diesel and I think the injector runs at something like 150bar, it was featured in ME a few years back

 

There are some more photos in his album

 

Edited By JasonB on 14/01/2018 17:43:34

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Posted by Russell Eberhardt on 06/01/2018 16:25:01:

Time to sue Intel??

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I guess that's what Brian Krzanich thought.

MichaelG.

[ChrisHParticipant @chrish]

Correction, I meant to say not many IC engines on display, (compared to say the Bristol show). I saw (drooled over!) the Anzani engine and a Bentley rotary engine, but there was not a lot more IC, compared to the number of steam chuff chuffs. The traction engines in steam outside were lovely too. The SBA launch complete with boiler and steam engine was a delight, beautiful installation. One can but dream!

Interestingly, it was less crowded early afternoon – I left just after 3pm – than in the morning. That helped getting to see what was on the stands!!

Chris

[Colin HeseltineParticipant @colinheseltine48622]

I went yesterday. The queue at 10 was not very big but by about 11 it felt as though several long trains had passed through and deposited all their passengers at the show, it was really crowded.

Bought stock I want and only I item of tooling. The item I liked the most was the Anzani 'Y' type engine on Wolverhampton MES stand. I am trying to build one (over next decade or two) and got a few pictures to help.

Colin

[Mike PooleParticipant @mikepoole82104]

8 years out of Miele so far, had to de gunge small pipes to get it to realise it had pumped out. Must do more high temp maintenance washes.

14 years out of Zanussi but although the drum bearings are easy to replace the seals were not so easy, at least the surface they run on is hard to repair. Called it a day when you couldn't hear the helicopters going into Benson.

Hotpoint and Indesit were total crap but cheap

Mike

[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

Ah, the long debated status of the Engineer. Actually it's perfectly clear. If you consult Dod's Peerage you will find that engineers are listed at the very end (One Hundred and Ninety Third) together with 'others not engaged in manual labour, farming of land, or retail trade'. Engineers are 'considered to possess some station in society, although the Law takes no cognizance of their rank inter se'.

I hope that puts an end to the debate!

Dave

[Colin HeseltineParticipant @colinheseltine48622]

Collected a part completed Anzani 'Y' engine. This will be a long-term project I think. Crankcase is machined and bearings fitted. Cylinders fully machined and valve guides fitted, liners and pistons machined. Rings made but need heat treatment. Have all gears and bushes. Crank 90 % made but has a slight bend issue, which I need to see whether is resolvable or a piece of scrap. I know its not the crankcase as a dummy crank spins freely. This has no crank webs or big end. It may be possible to use this as a base for a fabricated crankshaft and used pinned webs and big end. Not sure how feasible this would be as oil feed holes are required through the first main bearing into the crank, up through the web, across the big end, down through the second web and into the second main bearing. The pins might get in the way or weaken the crank.

Anyway I'm sure it will provide lots of fun and games over the next years or so, plus lots of bad language as I cock things up.

Colin

[Ketan SwaliParticipant @ketanswali79440]

Posted by SillyOldDuffer on 10/06/2017 11:10:40:

Posted by Ketan Swali on 10/06/2017 10:40:18:

…

… I stopped working with them after the situation in the region got trickier.

…

Ketan at ARC.

'After the situation in the region got trickier' – I see Ketan's mastered the art of understatement!

Dave

Well, it was fun working in the region prior to the genocide. I got to meet and work with some colourful people, exploring enovative ways to deliver raw material, create and produce African print in mills in Congo and Tanzania, wining and taking business away from German giants such as Hoechst AG and Bayer AG, with British and Chinese made chemicals, and Chinese dyes processed in the U.K..

Ketan at ARC.

[Ketan SwaliParticipant @ketanswali79440]

Short story: Its a Chinese long term plan to access mineral deposits.

Long story:

The Chinese already have experience of this when they built the Tazara railway between Zambia and Dar-es-Salaam (place of my birth), in Tanzania. Regardless of what we read in the West, that railway still runs regularly when the Chinese want to move their raw metals/minerals cargo from Zambia to Dar-es-Salaam port.

On Ady1's link, you will see that the plan (see the map too) is to connect the railway all the way to Kisangani in D.R.Congo (Zaire). The only real employer in Kisangani was SOTEXKI – textile printing operation, run mainly by a French Belgiuan Italian consortium. The only other thing there is an airport with a small township. The lands around there are seriously rich in certain mineral deposits… one of which is Coltan. Lets just say that there are serious Western International institutions who have direct and indirect interest in this region, involved in securing their interests by what ever means necessary. Now the Chinese want a piece or whole of this action.

For about a decade in the 1990s I was involved in supplying raw material – colour, fabric, machinery parts, as well as a technical engineer to SOTEXKI. The logistics of getting goods to the factory involved land road, from Matadi (Western Port of Zaire) to Kinshasa, and river barges from Kinshasa – loading at the Unilever factory, to Kisangani, up the river Congo – all protected with armed guards. Things good tricky in the rainy season.

Transporting from the East presented a different challenge. Preferred route By road from Dar-es-Salaam to Goma (Rwanda), cross and then by road to Kisangani. Again, very dangerous journey, complete with armed guards on board, and extremely expensive. Convoy of five to six 40'ft Containers. When it rained, you just couldn't move the goods by road. So load the the containers back on a vessel and off-load at Mombassa. Then move the goods by road from Mombassa to Goma (Rwanda), via Kampala. Again, complete with armed guards – very expensive. Once at Goma, cross into Congo, and move cargo by road to Kisangani. Alternatively, if urgent, bring cargo into Entebbe, and fly it into Kisangani.

Then came the Rwandan genocide, sleepless nights over a month wondering where the goods were in transit from Mombassa. Last radio call came in when the convoy just passed through Kampala. Belgian insurers were informed (yes you can get high risk insurance as a price). The goods got to the factory in the end – which is a different and difficult story, but the process troubled me. Soon there after flowed in the international interests which financed various interventions over the border using Ugandan army, etc., laying new roads through the jungle from Kisangani, into Uganda, aiding development of mining legal?, and moving coltan – for example by road to Mombassa to places in Europe for refinement and re-export to people involved in manufacture of components in the mobile phone industry… 'All clean business!'.

As Clive says, with it, AIDS came into Kisangani, along with various armies and war lords and their interests which fled from Rwanda. The printing factory lost a lot of workers to AIDS, or shot dead, or to the mines where money and work was easy. The Ugandan army robbed the Lebanese diamond dealers at gun point, and many bad things took over.

The factory still survives, even though I stopped working with them after the situation in the region got trickier.

The governments in the region don't give a dam about the people. It is all about the money which can be realised quickly, provided all the warring fractions can be 'helped to unite' by the Chinese by whatever means necessary.

Ketan at ARC.

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by Johan van Zanten on 06/03/2017 16:16:08:

Some generatorsets made in the Netherlands.

Excellent Johan, thank you for sharing those pictures.

Neil

[Adrian GilesParticipant @adriangiles39248]

Hi Eric, those engines are superb, that Anzani sounds brilliant! I can only drool and try to make better quality cock-ups in future!

[Andrew TinsleyParticipant @andrewtinsley63637]

Hello Neil,

The old steel Sodastream bottles were phased out in favour of aluminium units a few years ago. They did refill them if I went to their Peterborough premises and would fill them on the spot. Even this is now no longer available.

I solved the problem by buying a hefty cylinder of CO2 from Ebay and made up my own refilling rig. I think the CO2 cylinder will last me for the rest of my life. CO2 motors don't exactly use large amounts! Even my converted Cox engines and the big triple Gasparin Anzanis don't take all that much.

Andrew.

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Thanks, Neil

… Maybe I'm getting there [albeit very slowly]

This from Wikipedia, makes some sense:

The number of fundamental physical constants depends on the physical theory accepted as "fundamental". Currently, this is the theory of general relativity for gravitation and the Standard Model for electromagnetic, weak and strong nuclear interactions and the matter fields. Between them, these theories account for a total of 19 independent fundamental constants. There is, however, no single "correct" way of enumerating them, as it is a matter of arbitrary choice which quantities are considered "fundamental" and which as "derived". Uzan (2011) lists 22 "unknown constants" in the fundamental theories, which give rise to 19 "unknown dimensionless parameters", as follows: … < etc. >

MichaelG.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_constant

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 12/01/2017 18:30:26

[Michael MallesonParticipant @michaelmalleson22793]

Hi All. An update on repairing Britains models. The broken part in question was in fact made of die cast metal, zinc/aluminium/ magnesium/ copper mixtures known as Zanak or Mazak, very difficult to stick anything to. My solution after much internet reasearch and asking around was to file close fitting faces, degrease with Loctite 7063 degreaser, abrade gently, re-degrease and then use Hafix Glue. Google Loctite 7063, the cheapest is £9.99 inc. postage, and go to the Hafix website as the only suppliers. Araldite now have glue they claim will stick almost any plastic !

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

Posted by John Flack on 03/01/2017 13:22:18:

Thanks Phil…………… If there was a local club I would be a member, out on a limb in the colonial South west peninsular.

Thanks for the post…………..john

is that UK south west? Perranporth MES is only 25 miles from Penzance so hard to get out of range of a club. If anything the locals will be even more eager to find a source of engineering kit.

[Iain DownsParticipant @iaindowns78295]

I've been at the model engineering hobby for a bit over a year. I've spent most of my time fettling my machines and appear to have become obsessed with the process of scraping (which is very time consuming and hard to explain the attractions of to the layman. "I'm making things.flat ..".

But I've not made anything at all which my wife can recognise as a thing.

To be honest, I'd also like to take a turn at doing something I can recognise as a thing so that I can return to my peculiarities and over-ambitious long term goals (a lathe) with some sense of achievement.!

So my requirements are:-

• It must look like a thing to SWMBO.
• It should be within my level of skill ( can turn to a few thou. Turning to a thou is luck. I can scrape better than a thou! )
• Ideally it should not require any specialist tooling that I don't already have.
• I would prefer to start with raw stock rather than pre-prepared kits, though will certainly consider castings.
• I should be able to build it in (say) under 40 hours or so.

I have a 7×14 lathe, micromill and rotary table and a reasonable collection of cutters. NO gear making stuff.

I'd like to make a clock at some point. Ideally to my design, but recognise I should build something that will work first.

I quite fancy a stirling engine or a steam engine. The former is more interesting in that you'd expect a steam engine to work, but sticking a chunk of metal on a cup of coffee and having it turn is a bit more 'wow'.

I get the impression that the stirling engines need better machining skills.

I'm entirely happy to have other suggestions, too – zany ones are particularly welcome!

 

Iain

 

Edited By Iain Downs on 10/12/2016 09:40:12

[peak4Participant @peak4]

Curtis, no idea where you are in the country, but I've just reinforced a bench in my new house using 40mm thick wall box @ £20 for a 21' length from Sheffield, and topped it with ex-mezzanine floor 43mm chipboard from a chap in Huddersfield.

Adjustable feet from ebay, as recommended in a different thread on here, and smartened up on the top with a couple of boxes of cheap laminate flooring from a special offer in Wickes.

pm me if you want the dealers' details.