What Did You Do Today (2016)

[Swarf, Mostly!Participant @swarfmostly]

Posted by Muzzer on 15/04/2016 15:34:58:

SNIP

Haha, yes, 20' x 30' in old money. Beyond the workshop, the extension that joins it to the house will provide additional room for the rest of the family and for storing lots of "stuff" so the workshop can be kept clear of impurities. Not forgetting this is a workshop, not a garage…

Congratulations, an enviable prospect!

Just a tip, though – avoid using the word 'workshop' in your planning application paperwork. Call it a 'hobby room' and say it's for 'hobby and domestic storage purposes'. If you use the word 'workshop' the planning people and/or the council members will immediately have mental images of loud and cataclysmic noises 24/7 and spray paint over-blow wafting over the fence onto the neighbours' washing.

Best regards,

Swarf, Mostly!

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by Muzzer on 15/04/2016 15:24:56:

And yes, it doesn't matter which photo I select to actually insert in a post, they all come out sideways, which is obviously how they were taken on the iPhone.

Any ideas?

Yes, edit them in proper editing software rather than using a simple viewer!

Problem is that the viewer doesn't really the file, it just displays them rotated, not that the forum is 'unrotating' them.

Neil

[MuzzerParticipant @muzzer]

W7 obviously did something different then. Perhaps it actually changed the orientation rather than some metadata flag.

Edited By Muzzer on 15/04/2016 16:57:54

[MuzzerParticipant @muzzer]

Went on my wife's W7 laptop and uploaded the same pics to my ME album and it's now the correct orientation. All I did was what I did in W8 / W10 ie rotate clockwise in file manager so it looks right. W7 clearly changes the pixels around while W8 / W10 doesn't. No clever software, no fiddling metadata just file manager.

As I said way back, some smart4rse at Microsoft discerned that it all had to be changed for W8 / W10. Now, to orient the photos correctly would appear to require fancy software. Is that progress?

[john fletcher 1Participant @johnfletcher1]

To Muzzer and other who are thinking extending or creating a workshop may I suggest they consider using Kingspan, which is basically two sheets of plastic coated steel separated by 50 or 75mm of insulation. My friend has a great workshop using Kingspan, its self supporting, white on the inner leaf and hardly needs any heating at all, he built his workshop in a week without any assistance, doors window etc. Farmer use it a lot and taking every thing into consideration its not expensive way to build a workshop. Can be cut with an angle grinder and using Self tapping screw easily assembled.

PS. I don't work for Kingspan. John

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by Muzzer on 15/04/2016 18:37:22:

Went on my wife's W7 laptop and uploaded the same pics to my ME album and it's now the correct orientation. All I did was what I did in W8 / W10 ie rotate clockwise in file manager so it looks right. W7 clearly changes the pixels around while W8 / W10 doesn't. No clever software, no fiddling metadata just file manager.

As I said way back, some smart4rse at Microsoft discerned that it all had to be changed for W8 / W10. Now, to orient the photos correctly would appear to require fancy software. Is that progress?

I thought the functionality was lost after Vista, but obviously not.

I used to find the Vista viewer with basic colour adjustments, gamma and crop was enough for most of my photos.

Neil

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

palindrome time.

In just under an hour it will be 16:04:16 16:04:16 UTC/GMT. If you prefer BST, you've missed it

[Cornish JackParticipant @cornishjack]

Being pedantic ,(and why not?), no!! Not palindromic – numerically repetitious, maybe???

Yes, I know, I'm bored, and the house/workshop rebuild is still days from completion.

rgds

Bill

[martin perman 1Participant @martinperman1]

More like what did I do this weekend, yesterday my friend and I went to Oakley Airfield to a bi Annual bring and buy, tools, stationary engines, tractors etc, to find those parts you need to finish a project, I havent had the time lately to repair the sprocket that had cracked around its boss so was on the look out for another 16 tooth chain sprocket to get my Lister D driven Hamworthy Compressor set up and running, I picked up a selection of 1 mm thick cutting discs and a selection of different grit abrasive discs for paint removal, the cutting discs are going to cut an extinguisher in half to make a cooling tank. We didn't stop long as there was load of brass monkeys about spraying water everywhere and the cab of my van was very inviting.

Today, whilst my Daughter took her Mum shopping, I rebuilt the woodwork on my Daughters lean to ready to take a couple of sheets of corrugated plastic as the UV has wrecked the current sheets, after lunch I fitted the rebuilt ML magneto to the engine, timed it and gave the set a run just to see if all was ok, I will need to strip the fuel tank down as the petrol is slow to get through but at least the magneto issues have now gone.

Martin P

[Iain DownsParticipant @iaindowns78295]

My first Stub Mandrill!

No, nothing to do with him ….

A while back Ian Phillips recommended putting skateboard bearings on my CMD leadscrews to tune things up. My motivation is actually to motorise, but this is a step on the way.

The Stub Mandrill

Mr Hall recommends turning the cross slide at 0.1 degrees to fine tune the diameter cutting and then put on the taper. I actually used 1 degree, but might try his approach next time.

The bearing block on the mandrill

Bored

And with the leadscrew fitted!

I used a boring bar with an insert to do the dirty work and I must say it seems to give a much better finish than either my self ground HSS tools or the brazed carbide tools I have. I might just invest in a knife cutter…

Iain

[John HinkleyParticipant @johnhinkley26699]

I know I said earlier in this thread (or it might have been "Workshop progress" thread, that I wouldn't clutter it up with more photos, but I'm so chuffed with today's efforts with my Graham Meek-inspired boring/facing tool, I just had to post here. My chuffness runneth over!

Not quite ALL the parts, but about 95%. A lot of work involved in this, but spread over a number of weeks. The design is frozen, now but evolved over the machining period as better options were found and for ease of manufacture.

Can't wait to get it finished. I just hope the damn thing works.

John

[frank brownParticipant @frankbrown22225]

For many switches the neon is connected outgoing live to earth. Normally they have a 220K resistor in series with them so the normal current is 1 mA. Could be worth checking out the neon's wiring and temporarily disconnecting them.

FWIW we had random trips from condensation inside one arm of a metal chandelier – don't ask, the other two arms were dry.

Frank

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by Cornish Jack on 16/04/2016 16:44:32:

Being pedantic ,(and why not?), no!! Not palindromic – numerically repetitious, maybe???

Yes, I know, I'm bored, and the house/workshop rebuild is still days from completion.

rgds

Bill

Oops!

I will have to wait four years for:

01:01:20 02:10:10

The next 'mega palindrome' is:

16:04:2022 02:40:16

Unless you know different?

Neil

Edited By Neil Wyatt on 19/04/2016 13:31:30

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Posted by Neil Wyatt on 19/04/2016 13:25:41:

16:04:2022 02:40:16

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Neil,

I don't think you've quite got the hang of this, yet.

MichaelG.

[John FieldingParticipant @johnfielding34086]

Isn't it a mandrel? WTF is a mandrill!

[Roderick JenkinsParticipant @roderickjenkins93242]

[Keith LongParticipant @keithlong89920]

Beaten to it by Rod!!

Keith

How would you fit one of those on to a lathe!

Edited By Keith Long on 19/04/2016 16:29:53

[Roderick JenkinsParticipant @roderickjenkins93242]

Good old Google eh!

Rod

[MuzzerParticipant @muzzer]

Arguably what I didn't do today, as I've been indulging in the worst kind of armchair / chequebook engineering.

Some time back, when I had a workshop, I made a quick change tool holder for my Bridgeport clone that has a 30 taper spindle. The usual toolholders for this are NMTB30 which has a parallel shank for the drawbar thread but I had to machine about 8-10mm from the end of the shank due to the limited space in the spindle to house the collet mechanism and the pullstud. It's not a difficult operation but as the BT30 toolholder is almost identical apart from having no shank to machine away, it's a more convenient solution.

I've been acquiring a few NMTB30 and BT30 toolholders as they have come up and it's become clear I'll now require a fair few pullstuds to make use of them – a short version for the NMTB and a longer version for the BT. I managed to make up a few of the NMTB version the first time round but I reckon it would take me quite a few days to make up a dozen or so more of each type on my manual lathe. However, I've got a life to live, an armchair to sit in – and a chequebook in my pocket.

So I modelled the pullstuds in Onshape at the end of last year and got our factory in China to farm them out to a local machine shop. On my last visit in March they were ready, complete with a comprehensive incoming inspection report, hardened and ready to go. It's a blatant bit of chequebook engineering admittedly but at £3 each, I'm happy to pay for someone else to crank them out so I don't have to. To be fair, my armchair workshop doesn't have the facilities…

I now have 20 of each (£120 all in), which should keep me going for a while. Fine looking things. Here's the original CAD model (short pullstud) and what they look like with NMTB (not yet machined back) and BT flavour holders. Some other pics in my album.

Murray

[Mark P.Participant @markp]

What did I do today….unblocked the drain. Not enough fall on the pipe when first installed! So the water doesn’t flow fast enough to keep things clear.
Mark P.

[davebParticipant @daveb17630]

Posted by Roderick Jenkins on 19/04/2016 16:28:24:

Neil, This animal is a palindrome, both ends look the same.

[NJHParticipant @njh]

On the remote possibility that SOMEONE out there has not encountered the classic palindrome :-

Napoleon's comment :

ABLE WAS I ERE I SAW ELBA.

Anyone know any more?

Norman

[Anonymous]

This may be appropriate, given another recent thread:

A dog, a panic in a pagoda.

Andrew

Edit: It would be interesting to know if it is the dog that is in a panic, or the obsever of said dog.

Edited By Andrew Johnston on 19/04/2016 19:32:48

[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

Ban campus motto, "Bottoms up MacNab"

[Roger Williams 2Participant @rogerwilliams2]

John Hinkley, nice job youve done there !. Ive fancied making one of those, but it looks a tad complicated. Hope it works OK.

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