What Did You Do Today (2017)

[MikeParticipant @mike89748]

My favourite (mythical) punk band was Pete Pimple and the Pustules……….

[Jon GibbsParticipant @jongibbs59756]

Posted by Mike on 13/06/2017 11:13:16:

Yes, we used what my mother always referred to as 'God's measurements' rather than this modern metric rubbish.

So, digits, palms, spans and ells then

…rather than the other modern English rubbish

[Martin KyteParticipant @martinkyte99762]

Round here in my youth there was a band called Norfolk and Good. !

Martin

[MikeParticipant @mike89748]

Jon: When I was a newspaper design sub-editor years ago we used ems for horizontal measurement and inches for vertical. The size of type was measured in points.The British-American points system (72 points to an inch) survives with type fonts in the computer age. Amazing that nobody has changed this to a metric measurement. When metrication first came to the printing industry I recall going into a supplier's shop and asking for a metric steel ruler. "How long", asked the assistant. "Oh, about two feet", I replied automatically. Sorry, but to this day I still think in Imperial weights and measures.

[Jon GibbsParticipant @jongibbs59756]

Sorry Mike, I just couldn't resist having a dig.

As a kid of the early 60's I was educated first in imperial at junior school and later in metric at secondary school and so I'm completely bi-lingual and can think in either set of units. Both my milling machine and lathe are imperial and yet I still have no trouble working in metric dimensions with either machine.

…but I believe that the emotive and sentimental attachment to archaic dimensions is nothing short of bonkers – that was perhaps obvious.

Jon

[Iain DownsParticipant @iaindowns78295]

It would appear that reading that damn manual thing is a fine idea after all. So far I've ground my tools by eye with grand ignorance of the detail.

After reading the responses to my grim finish (and having another go with the original tool) I set too to grid a tool to what the pundits say it should be.

The result after a 5 thou cut at 5 thou per rev and 400 rip looked like this

Compare to the pre-spindle 'bad tool' cut on the left of the bar.

A 2 thou finish cut was even better

Though I admit it's hard to tell from the photo. My phone doesn't much like these type of shots.

Iain

[Anonymous]

Posted by Iain Downs on 13/06/2017 20:34:12:

Compare to the pre-spindle 'bad tool' cut on the left of the bar.

…………….

A 2 thou finish cut was even better

Looking good.

Andrew

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by NJH on 13/06/2017 10:10:43:

Ah Neil

That is one benefit of Staffies – very short coat and no Hoovering after them…………however they do still shed some hair. Indoors I often walk about in bare feet and once had a painful pricking in the sole of one foot but nothing obvious to see. It proved eventually to be a short, almost invisible, Staffie hair which had worked its way into my foot! I tend to wear slippers indoors now!

Norman

Yes, twice I've had a lab hair in my toe, Luna has quite stiff hair along her spine.

[Mike PooleParticipant @mikepoole82104]

Apparently one of the hazards of hairdressing is hairs sticking in the skin.

Mike

[Gray62Participant @gray62]

Posted by Mike Poole on 13/06/2017 21:54:22:

Apparently one of the hazards of hairdressing is hairs sticking in the skin.

Mike

Hair splinters can be extremely painful and liable to infection. I became quite adept at removing them from my daughters feet when she started hairdressing (she's got a husband for that job now )

[Raymond Sanderson 2Participant @raymondsanderson2]

Not much suffering the flu so reading and internet is it.

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by Mike Poole on 13/06/2017 21:54:22:

Apparently one of the hazards of hairdressing is hairs sticking in the skin.

Mike

They must work their way in like cactus spines.

[john carruthersParticipant @johncarruthers46255]

If it's like glass splinters they migrate around the body before eventually working their way out.

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

I guess most of us are old enough to remember the introduction of metric money…… Some of the kids at work don't know what an half crown is so I them it is half a king's ransom and invent some plausibly large number in shillings and groats.

[V8EngParticipant @v8eng]

Ah yes a few mates could have a good night out for a couple Groats.

Have a few Trencher fulls, some Grog, and if you were lucky some Gruel for the next morning.

That ought to get them tapping furiously at their screens!

Edited By V8Eng on 14/06/2017 11:09:36

[MikeParticipant @mike89748]

Those of us interested in ballistics weigh our bullets in grains, and speeds are in feet per second. V8Eng, let's have a night on the town! Wenches to serve the trenchers and grog, I hope!

Edited By Mike on 14/06/2017 12:33:24

[richardandtracyParticipant @richardandtracy]

Posted by Bazyle on 14/06/2017 09:03:29:

I guess most of us are old enough to remember the introduction of metric money…… Some of the kids at work don't know what an half crown is so I them it is half a king's ransom and invent some plausibly large number in shillings and groats.

I was 6 at the time & it was one of the first times I touched money. 15 Feb 1971. Day before my brother's first birthday.

Regards,

Richard.

[Colin WhittakerParticipant @colinwhittaker20544]

A few years back and with a a bunch of students who comfortably post-dated metric money the following question came up on University Challenge,"What was the price on the mad hatter's hat in Alice in Wonderland in metric money?" And one of them still beat me to the answer.

[V8EngParticipant @v8eng]

Posted by Mike on 14/06/2017 12:32:48:

Those of us interested in ballistics weigh our bullets in grains, and speeds are in feet per second. V8Eng, let's have a night on the town! Wenches to serve the trenchers and grog, I hope!

Edited By Mike on 14/06/2017 12:33:24

Yes Mike, that's only way to have a decent night out.

Have to watch out for the Pressgangs (nothing to do with your former occupation).

Edited By V8Eng on 14/06/2017 13:38:00

[John FlackParticipant @johnflack59079]

Hey guys ease up on this music and band banter. Im still trying to enter the metric age. Have none of you heard of

Turk Murphy, Kid Ory, Wingy Manone,Red Nichols🎼🎼🎧🎤🎼🎧🎤

[V8EngParticipant @v8eng]

Posted by John Flack on 14/06/2017 14:32:39:

Hey guys ease up on this music and band banter. Im still trying to enter the metric age. Have none of you heard of

Turk Murphy, Kid Ory, Wingy Manone,Red Nichols🎼🎼🎧🎤🎼🎧🎤

 

My recent experience with looking at self storage facilities suggests that full metrication is still a long way off. The storage spaces seem to be listed in square feet!

Edited By V8Eng on 14/06/2017 15:27:38

[John FlackParticipant @johnflack59079]

V8 eng….self storage units… Is that Egyptian for pyramids…sorry to hear of you woes😈

 

Edited By John Flack on 14/06/2017 16:12:23

[MuzzerParticipant @muzzer]

Finally bit the bullet on Sunday evening and coughed up £98 for 500mm of 130mm dia EN3 black, 500mm of 25x100mm EN3 bright and 500mm of 30x70mm EN3 bright from Jenkins Steel online. About half the cost was steel, the rest was Parcelfarce 24h.

The main issue dawned on me only after I had received it. My generic 4×6 bandsaw has only got a capacity of 110mm or so in round stock and I'm buggered if I'm about to use a hacksaw to chop a bit off. And even if I were man enough to part this off in the lathe (I doubt it), it's not something I'd want to be making a habit of. Perhaps another time after a few beers…

Time taken 36 minutes – the last operation was only 3-4 mins after rotating it about 60 degrees. This hacksaw is an old dog (only cost $100 Canadian / £60) but it has its moments!

Murray

[V8EngParticipant @v8eng]

Posted by John Flack on 14/06/2017 16:11:06:

V8 eng….self storage units… Is that Egyptian for pyramids…sorry to hear of you woes😈

Edited By John Flack on 14/06/2017 16:12:23

That made me chuckle!

Pyramids might be difficult to load stuff into! I do not plan on getting Mummified any time soon either (hopefully).

[MikeParticipant @mike89748]

And, going back to old weights and measures, a pyramid inch was one 25th of a cubit……………

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