Something Else Exciting is also on it’s way

[Nick_GParticipant @nick_g]

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That was worth waiting in and opening the door for.

Now you will be able to tackle those 'Elmers engines'

Nick

[I.M. OUTAHEREParticipant @i-m-outahere]

Lottery win eh ?

So whats in the little boxes 😛

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

Wow. That bench top must have been empty before the unpacking. How did you manage that?

[Curtis RutterParticipant @curtisrutter61973]

Think we need a full inventory!

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

Posted by XD 351 on 06/09/2017 18:11:26:

Lottery win eh ?

No, you just need the special ARC discount code that only me and Neil have

[Roderick JenkinsParticipant @roderickjenkins93242]

Clearly, you are going to set up a second workshop in the back of the Scooby.

[I.M. OUTAHEREParticipant @i-m-outahere]

Did ARC do a pre delivery prep on the mill ? It looks pretty clean and fully assembled, although we can only see the top half .

When i got my X2 it took half a day just to get the grease and wax paper off it then i had to fit the handles etc.

[Nick_GParticipant @nick_g]

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Hey Jason. Is there a 12.3 mm drill bit in this lot.?

If so you had better check it's tolerance with that 150 mm ruler.

Nick

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

Still dripping in chicken fat just like it left the factory. There is nothing to assemble except putting a couple of handles onto the handwheels which are reversed so they don't get knocked off.

Nick I'm not measuring the drill as that is not important, it's the hole that matters and there is a set of miniature bore gauges in there somewhere. Anyway steel rules are not for me, you should know us site boys are happiers with an old tape measure

[Russell EberhardtParticipant @russelleberhardt48058]

Congratulations on winning the lottery Jason.

Russell

[NigeParticipant @nige81730]

Nice box of 'stuff' Jason

Nige

[mechman48Participant @mechman48]

Nice stuff… I was 99% there… apart from the R8 designation… ​ … some pics of completed assembly would be nice… just to make us drool.

George.

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Enough there to keep Jason busy for a few days, maybe even a couple of weeks…

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

It will take me that long to find somewhere to put it all !

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

I still haven't quite finished rearranging my workshop for the SC4. the stand fitted, but I couldn't get the gearbox cover open, so I had to shorten and move my milling bench. I then had to move the mill on the bench. Then I had to move my vice. But it still clashed with the power feed, so I had to move the vice again. Which meant I had to reinforce another bench. Then I had to move my 'surface plate'. I also had to remove one shelf and put up three new ones. At least the shaper was able to stay in it's original place, but I now have a bandsaw that has no permanent home.

Neil

[duncan webster 1Participant @duncanwebster1]

Posted by JasonB on 07/09/2017 07:27:22

 

:…..Anyway steel rules are not for me, you should know us site boys are happiers with an old tape measure

Friend of mine was once asked to provide a copy of the calibration cert for his tape measure, and no I'm not joking. Although I'm a great believer in QA, this sort of thing shows why you shoudn't give the job of QA man to your least competent employee.

Edited By duncan webster on 08/09/2017 12:11:13

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Posted by duncan webster on 08/09/2017 12:10:36:

Friend of mine was once asked to provide a copy of the calibration cert for his tape measure, and no I'm not joking.

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Nor are these folks : **LINK**

http://www.buybrandtools.com/acatalog/Calibrated_Tape_Measure.html

[ it could be a perfectly reasonable request in some circumstances ]

MichaelG.

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

All lubed and and ready for a thrashing, mill is ready to use too!

Unlike that Stub Mandrel bloke I keep a tidy workshop so it's easy to find space for a new comer without having to have a major shuffle of the contents

[NJHParticipant @njh]

Hey Jason

"I keep a tidy workshop "

But think of all the excitement and entertainment that you are missing!!

For ( many? of ) the rest of us every trip to the workshop is an adventure. We go out there and need a "widget" to carry out the work but can't remember just where we saw it last. There follows a search through all the likely …then increasingly unlikely places – leading us through a comfortable adventure by revisiting all our previous workshop experiences. Many a happy hour can pass this way and, by the time we are through, we have completely forgotten what we went in there for anyway! Never mind the next time we go out there for a different purpose altogether it is sure to turn up…….. then we will think " now I was looking for that the other day – I wonder what I needed it for……..?

Norman

(Of course it may be just ME that operates like this ……. but do any of the rest of you recognise this pattern!)

[mechman48Participant @mechman48]

…Looks a bit like someone did a supermarket sweep of the ARC warehouse and as you can see there is a 150mm rule in there so one right answer…

​You fooled us all… there are TWO 150mm rules…

Geo.

[Thor 🇳🇴Participant @thor]

Norman, it's not just you.

Thor

[Sam Longley 1Participant @samlongley1]

Posted by duncan webster on 08/09/2017 12:10:36:

Posted by JasonB on 07/09/2017 07:27:22

:…..Anyway steel rules are not for me, you should know us site boys are happiers with an old tape measure

Friend of mine was once asked to provide a copy of the calibration cert for his tape measure, and no I'm not joking. Although I'm a great believer in QA, this sort of thing shows why you shoudn't give the job of QA man to your least competent employee.

Edited By duncan webster on 08/09/2017 12:11:13

When BS 5750 was first introduced (Now ISO 9000 etc)it was not unusual to expect calibrated tapes in the building industry. Bit silly really as a proportion the operatives could not use a tape in the first place.

There was a big drive to get firms quality registered in the construction industry but I see little evidence of it now.

[Howard LewisParticipant @howardlewis46836]

Ah! So its not just me that works in "Rubik's Cube" conditions.

At least it forces changing the habits of a lifetime, to be tidy. Occasionally, there is the thrill of finding something that you had forgotten that you had, or where it had been put.

You tend to remember which pile it goes in, or was last seen. IF I can remember; increasingly difficult these days.

Either that or my 6 inch rule walks about the shop when my back is turned.

Talking of which, I know of an instance where a calibration certificate was requested for a 6 inch rule. (Maybe a HSE escapee?)

Howard

Edited By Howard Lewis on 09/09/2017 18:28:39

[Anonymous]

Posted by NJH on 09/09/2017 17:28:18:

(Of course it may be just ME that operates like this ……. but do any of the rest of you recognise this pattern!)

Too true! But since the workshop has extended into the rest of the house it begins for me every time I step through the front door.

Andrew

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