What did you do today (2015)

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Posted by JasonB on 03/09/2015 07:19:38:

You did better than me Andrew, virtually nothing from the Blueberry, will have to make do with blackberry muffins but I did have the first of the plumbs with custard last night

Ah well, I've only got about a dozen plums on the tree this year. But I had a bumper crop of plums and gages last year; had to buy a third freezer to take the overflow. I'll be having blueberries, blackberries and raspberries for supper this evening.

Rant on

Why is it you can't get decent stodge for pudding when eating out these days? Preferably a large slice of jam roly-poly or spotted dick and lashings of thick custard like wot we used to get at school.

Rant off

Andrew

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

"no demand sir"

What do they serve in school nowadays?

[Raymond Sanderson 2Participant @raymondsanderson2]

Posted by Neil Wyatt on 03/09/2015 09:52:20:

Thanks Ray, I've passed your details on to Kate, she should get the new copy sent out to you soon.

Neil

Neil & Kate I really appreciate this again thank you.

[Raymond Sanderson 2Participant @raymondsanderson2]

Posted by Bazyle on 02/09/2015 12:50:19:

Posted by NJH on 02/09/2015 09:16:34:

We've just had our No.2 son with us here in sunny Devon for 5 weeks –

Norman

Devon, August, sunny – that must be some Australian Devon then

Norman have you been to the museum at Swan Hill during any visits to son? Well worth the trip.

Bayzle & Norman over on another forum a gent works at Swan Hill and has an amazing long thread of the work he does in restoring many of the machines well worth a read and look at some photos and at his videos.

The videos can be found here

This forum recently was created from another forum so it looks new Phil's thread is now 57 pages long. Whisperings

[NJHParticipant @njh]

Thanks Raymond – that should while away a few hours!

Norman

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Apo0logies to anyone who has tried to contact me using my stubmandrel.co.uk email. It stopped working a couple of months/weeks ago, and I've just discovered that outlook had somehow decided its POP3 not IMAP buit not changed the mailbox settings.

Neil

[AjohnwParticipant @ajohnw51620]

Well not today but some of yesterday and today. Tucking the stuff away that was on my old rack took some time.

The old racking was deeper and narrower so I kept putting things in front of other things so went for 300mm and wider this time. The old one was taller than this should be and unusually came with 6 shelves. This time I bought 2 with 5 shelves each and used 5 in half the intended height. Then spread the rest as shown and used the 1/2 leg length of the other set to make it taller so there are 2 shelves at the top for light bulky things. After all this is supposed to be a utility room – I have a very understanding wife.

There are 2 shelves that are a bit slim – so that I can put boxed sets of one or two things and wont be able to put anything on top of them.

Unlike the previous racking which used rolled sections for the legs this one uses angle with pressed slots to accept tongue. Not too bad but the cross shelf braces used this as well so had to bend the tongues as the come flat then found that the pressed slots were too tight. Eased with combinations of a screw driver, a cold chisel, mallet that came with them, a heavier plastic one and a 14lb lump hammer. Assembling the shelves on the 2nd set needed that a few times. The shelves on the first one were not too bad – wonderful quality control.

John

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[frank brownParticipant @frankbrown22225]

I think I would tether the two rear supports back to the wall at the top. That quite a room 11' ceiling height?

Frank

[David CambridgeParticipant @davidcambridge45658]

Finished building my (very small) welding table

 

Edited By David Cambridge on 06/09/2015 08:27:25

[Clive IndiaParticipant @cliveindia]

Posted by Neil Wyatt on 04/09/2015 12:26:52:

Apo0logies to anyone who has tried to contact me using my stubmandrel.co.uk email. It stopped working a couple of months/weeks ago, and I've just discovered that outlook had somehow decided its POP3 not IMAP buit not changed the mailbox settings. Neil

I don't know how Neil, but I managed to get by with my life in the meantime!

[HopperParticipant @hopper]

Posted by Raymond Sanderson 2 on 03/09/2015 09:30:39:

Yet there is a property in QLD takes 3 days to drive from one side to the other.

Yeah, I used to have a car like that too.

[OuBallieParticipant @ouballie]

Not ME, but over the last month using my experience of, have been figuring out a way to enable me to get the body of my 1935 Austin Seven Ruby off of the chassis single handed.

Have been welding/bolting brackets to front and back to aid lifting, and placing them onto the two CarTrolleys the car is presently on.

Yesterday succeeded in getting the rear clear of the chassis to much joy, then the usual 'Oh f..k it' moment as is the norm in such circumstances, so called it a day and back to the drawing board.

Will take and post a photo of my dilemma once I've calmed down.

Geoff – Well it was only a test session to discover just such shortcomings in my thinking

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Hooray for someone who can get all the important bits into less than 60 seconds!

Neil

[LathejackParticipant @lathejack]

Well today, around three months after purchase I finaly managed to take the BSA Starfire for a decent ride. I only risked it after fettling parts of the engine bottom end to ensure proper lubrication. Bank Holliday Monday was the target and it was finished and ready to go the night before, a trip to Thoresby Hall Festival of Transport was planned. But it rained heavily all the night before and most of Monday, so the trip was abandoned.…………………I had reworked the oil pump to give reliable high oil pressure, but the pressure kept dropping off excessively after a few miles on earlier rides. The pressure would only return to a healthy level after fiddling with the spring loaded ball type oil pressure relief valve. I had already fitted a new 5/16 steel ball and reseated it, but it kept failing. Later engines use a pretty much trouble free spring loaded piston type valve. But I cured it in the end, so far, and now have a reliable 60 – 85 PSI. Which so far has ensured the aluminium alloy con rod remains in the engine in one piece.………………………I also worked through the night until four in the morning to get other jobs and this new electronic ignition kit fitted. There are several brands on the market, this one comes with a 7 1/2 year guarantee. The Starfires performance is very good, although derived from the humble BSA C15, a C15 it is not. Now that project is sorted for the moment I must return to the model Red Wing stationary engine and finish that.

[AjohnwParticipant @ajohnw51620]

Posted by frank brown on 05/09/2015 21:59:05:

I think I would tether the two rear supports back to the wall at the top. That quite a room 11' ceiling height?

Frank

The ceilings in the house are something around 11ft.

I've bought a similar one before but went for a 6 shelf unit that was a bit taller than these but found that I was wasting a lot of the height as the shelves were too far apart so this time I bought two 5 shelf units that are 1.8m tall. The uprights come in 2 pieces with a "clip" for joining them. The lower 5 shelves will be where most of the weight is and the top one of those is only just over the height of one of the upright halves.

The other mistake I made last time was going for ones that were deeper so this time I went for 300mm. More likely to tip but the weight will be far lower down than it was on the other ones which were 2m? tall. I don't intend to put anything with significant weight on the top 2 shelves which are held up using 4 of the 1/2 uprights from the other set. The shelves below that run up to the normal height of the units – for boxed reamer and tap / die sets etc. The big gap is for a small lathe.

John

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[OuBallieParticipant @ouballie]

Thanks Neil, if referring to my post.

Update on the Austin Seven and what I thought was a problem, has turned out not to be so.

I thought this set-up was iffy due to the faint creaking I heard when I lowered the chassis, but a fellow Seven owner popped round yesterday evening to give my handiwork the once over, and passed it fit for purpose.

1" L-iron with 3/4" hollow square tube on the inside, bolted together through the body.

Orrery.

May have missed any posts concerning the brass bits in the first issue of that series, but can confirm that that lump is solid brass, now residing with all my other brass.

Geoff – Doors off of the Austin this week then off with the body.

[Anonymous]

Machined the oil pockets in the gear selectors for my traction engines; four in total, one pair shown here:

The pockets are 5/16" by 1/4" by 3/16" deep. Next job is to drill the oil holes through to the semi-circular recess.

Andrew

[Raymond Sanderson 2Participant @raymondsanderson2]

Had to go to my favourite toy store today to pick a few small items up I had got online.
LOML being with me may have prevented me making a little mistake.

Hare & Forbes Sydney got some new stock in. LOML's look is not one based at me its because she is more than 3" off the ground.

[David Clark 13Participant @davidclark13]

I just ordered the last bit of aluminium to fit a digital readout to a Warco WM14 mill. I have been thinking how to fit the scale to the Y axis and finally figured it out late last night. The Y axis basis is on an angle and I struggled to find a way to mount the scale horizontal or vertical. It took me a few weeks to figure out how to do it. The X axis was easy to figure out.

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Hi David,

Write me up a short note on how you solved it!

Neil

P.S. sorry Geoff, my comment was aimed at David Cambridge

[David Clark 13Participant @davidclark13]

Hi Neil Article will be done when I fit it.

[Cornish JackParticipant @cornishjack]

Just received a copy of Newnes Engineer's Reference Book (c1948/9). It makes a superb replacement for my copy of Machinery's Handbook, lost in the 2013 flood. Looks to have all that tome's contents plus more and in excellent condition … all for the princely sum of £1.30!!

rgds

Bill

[NJHParticipant @njh]

 "Rant on

Why is it you can't get decent stodge for pudding when eating out these days? Preferably a large slice of jam roly-poly or spotted dick and lashings of thick custard like wot we used to get at school.

Rant off

Andrew "

 

Andrew

You obviously eat in the wrong places!

I've just returned from a spell in hospital and one of the meals served up was Sausage and Mash with Onion Gravy followed by Bakewell Tart and Custard ! Years and years since I'd eaten these treats – it was ( almost ) worth prolonging my stay!

(Painfully!) Norman

 

Edited By NJH on 11/09/2015 09:01:17

[Bruce EdneyParticipant @bruceedney59949]

Posted by David Clark 1 on 10/09/2015 08:10:09:

I just ordered the last bit of aluminium to fit a digital readout to a Warco WM14 mill. I have been thinking how to fit the scale to the Y axis and finally figured it out late last night. The Y axis basis is on an angle and I struggled to find a way to mount the scale horizontal or vertical. It took me a few weeks to figure out how to do it. The X axis was easy to figure out.

I have a mill that is the 20mm version that had an Easson dro on it – I could have taken photos for you David – It is now in various pieces as I convert it to CNC. Scales and DRO in a box now – Must try to sell them to fund the CNC conversion.

Bruce

[David Clark 13Participant @davidclark13]

Hi Bruce I looked at several methods of mounting the Y axis on the Internet including YouTube but could not find an easy to use method. That is why I figured my own way out.

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