What did you do today? (2014)

[chris stephensParticipant @chrisstephens63393]

Hi MichaelG,

Oh dearie, dearie me what has become of the world. The ASA has no sense of humour or as the actor implied a sharp wit. All "hazards"/"risks" are implied not factual. It's as bad as SMEE closing it's workshop (temporarily we hope) on safety grounds.

RIP common sense.

Disgusted of Pinner

[jason udallParticipant @jasonudall57142]

Clive and others….
The quick tidy up there’s and inspection coming…

A certain admiralty research est….
At intervals (3 years I think)..an equipment muster happened..all assets were recorded. ..so far so good..but..for every ? a certain amount of published research was expected…
Thus reducing ones toy collection prior to such a muster was an advantage. ..
Skips were ordered and positioned under cover and filled..test equipment. .outboard motors…ordinance..boats…ready for retrieval after the inspection…
Until the skip firm got wind…and collected the skips….ooopps!…

[NJHParticipant @njh]

Good grief Chris – you made me sit up there :- " The ASA has no sense of humour "

Whilst I agree, the ASA was a large part of my past life.

ASA, to me, means Amateur Swimming Association . I was at times competitor, teacher, coach, official and general taxi driver to galas for miles and miles around! . It took up much of my life and I'd almost forgotten about it.

By comparison any hassles with the advertising lot must pale into insignificance!

Norman

[chris stephensParticipant @chrisstephens63393]

Hi Norman, so not only are they copying the nanny syndrome, they even copied someone else's initials, what a loads of t*****s.

Still, disgusted of Pinner

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Posted by chris stephens on 08/10/2014 15:54:17:

Oh dearie, dearie me what has become of the world. …

RIP common sense.

Disgusted of Pinner

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Chris,

If you can stomach it … there is more detail published on the ASA website

Two out of three of the recent complaints were upheld.

MichaelG.

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Dear Sir,

I wish to complain about the attached image, which encourages acceleration, speed and dangerous driving.

Mr. Angry

Purley

[Swarf, Mostly!Participant @swarfmostly]

Neil,

Your post has reminded me of someone on the wireless (I believe some people call it the 'radio' nowadays) several years ago arguing that the names chosen by car companies for their models, e.g. Hillman 'Avenger', encouraged aggressive driving and was bad for road safety.

He argued that motor cars should be called names like the Morris 'Maggot' or the Austin 'Woodworm' to make our roads gentler and safer places.

I'm really surprised and disappointed his proposal didn't catch on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Best Regards,

Swarf, Mostly!

 

Edited By Swarf, Mostly! on 09/10/2014 13:32:04

[Gordon WParticipant @gordonw]

There was one called morris tinworm, wan't there ?

[Bob Brown 1Participant @bobbrown1]

There also the fact that some cars have a badge that states sport when they are clearly a standard hatchback or swift when it isn't very swift.

Bob

[mick70Participant @mick70]

making re-usable hubs, brake disc holder and freewheel adaptor for a hot rod style trike im building my 7yr old.

oh and making the flanges to fit the spokes into which involved drilling 168 2.7mm holes.

thankfully made up jig for flanges.

 

Edited By JasonB on 09/10/2014 19:22:44

[mick70Participant @mick70]

seem to have messed up adding pic

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

If using photobucket you need to copy the "direct link" then when you want to put the image into your post click the little landscape icon called Image" at teh top of teh reply box, paste the link and alter the width to about 600.

I've done it for you above

[mick70Participant @mick70]

thank you knew i should have waited til kids were in.

[“Bill Hancox”Participant @billhancox]

Talk of Pinner on this forum raised my curiosity so I conducted a bit of research. In the process, I ran across an interesting advert for Pinner real estate that states in part: "25% ownership (property valued at £235, 000) restrictions APPLY …….. an opportunity to purchase a share in a one bedroom apartment". Hmmm!

Bill

[“Bill Hancox”Participant @billhancox]

Has anyone set out to do a quick and easy job that turned out to be a nightmare? Last night I set up my cartridge case trimmer to trim twenty 280 Remington cases; usually a 5 minute job. Tried to loosen 8-32 grub screw on the locking collar. Socket of grub screw stripped. Over to the drill press. Used a Dremel carbide drill to drill out the screw. Cut a little to deep and had to use pliers to separate the two interlocking threaded adjustment collars that were jammed tightly together. Interlocking threads useable but threads for grub screw ruined and bashed up the knurl. Drilled and tapped a new hole in the collar. Over to the lathe to turn a mandrel to fit it. Turned old knurl off and machined new knurl. Grub screw wouldn't start, forgot to counterbore hole after knurling. Over to drill press again to counterbore. Cleaned and blackened the collar. 2 hours later (including time for a couple of cups of hot & sweet Red Rose), lubed everything and put it back together. Looks better than new. Blessings upon Myford.

Bill

[Raymond Sanderson 2Participant @raymondsanderson2]

Not all done today but got to this stage today fitting the wheel itself to check before final truing and then all the final small things to do this is for LOML.

[Nicholas FarrParticipant @nicholasfarr14254]

Hi Raymond, nice looking job.

Regards Nick.

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

I always think the saddles of those Victorian unicycles look uncomfortable

Seriously, it is rather nice! I wish I could 'do' wood properly.

Neil

[Nick_GParticipant @nick_g]

Posted by Nick_G on 04/10/2014 18:29:37:

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I made a bench to sit a table top milling machine on.

Nick

Scratch this.!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's going to have to be sledge hammered.

The idea that an SX3 mill was going to sit on it has now been halted. – I have just bought a Boxford VM30 which has it's own base cabinet.

Nick

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Excellent move, Nick

… Dubious Project Management though.

MichaelG.

[chris stephensParticipant @chrisstephens63393]

Hi Bill, £235K, must be the cheap end of town.

Broke and disgusted of Pinner

[chris stephensParticipant @chrisstephens63393]

Dear Sir,

I wish to complain about the attached image, which encourages acceleration, speed and dangerous driving.

Mr. Angry

Purley

I too wish to complain, this photograph encourages owners to polish instead of being a hooligan.

I also wish to complain that I am not the owner.

Still Disgusted of Pinner

[“Bill Hancox”Participant @billhancox]

Tickled. Yesterday I purchased 14 ft of 1/2" 316 stainless round and 3 ft of the same X 9/16". A bargain @ $25 CAD for all. The chap that had it is a retired tool and die maker. He called again last night to inform me that he had several cutters etc that I might be interested in. I met him today and bought the lot for $55 CAD. Definitely a good haul. Photos to follow.

Bill

[Nick_GParticipant @nick_g]

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I was in B&Q first thing this morning. I noticed they had a damaged radiator (very small scratch) measuring 1400 x 500 for £25.

It would have been a crime not to have bought it and installed it into the 'man cave' – So I did.!

Fitted it with a thermostatic radiator valve as I don't want to central heat the cave like the living room but just keep the edge off the temperature on sharp winter nights.

Yes I know I need some lagging on the pipes and fix them.

Nick

[john kennedy 1Participant @johnkennedy1]

You don't want lagging on the pipes.The idea is to radiate heat into the room.

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