What Did You Do Today (2017)

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Mourning the passing of Rosie, a lovely labrador who cheated death twice but couldn't escape the third time.

It was gentle and her distress is over.

Neil

[Nick_GParticipant @nick_g]

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Very sorry to hear that Neil.

Nick

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Thanks Nick,

My daughter sent me this off her phone.

N.

[geoff walker 1Participant @geoffwalker1]

Sad news Neil, we've just lost Vienna, a lovely boy (a cat), 21 years old, miss him a lot.

……and yes in case you were wondering he was black and white and named after Rigsby's cat.

geoff

[SamsarandaParticipant @samsaranda]

Condolences Neil, we have always had cats, five at the moment, hurts terribly when we lose one, they are truly members of our family. Three grown up daughters, left home long time ago, they all maintain that the wife and I think more of the cats than them, not true we love them all equally.

Dave

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

Know how you feel Neil, came back from the vets without Cracker today.

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Sorry to hear that Jason, Geoff. One of my daughter's friends lost her black lab to lymphoma as well only yesterday too.

<maudlin nonsense deleted>

I'll drink to them all tonight.

Neil

[Russell EberhardtParticipant @russelleberhardt48058]

Spent two hours sitting in a traffic jam returning from Barcelona last night. Realised this morning that we were the lucky ones.

Russell

[NJHParticipant @njh]

That is sad Jason & Neil – we get so much from our dogs and it's always a huge wrench when they go. I feel that the only solution is to find a pup asap.

The dilemma we face when our sad day arrives is that we may well depart before the pup.

Norman

[duncan webster 1Participant @duncanwebster1]

Sorry to hear that Neil. I know just how you feel. When our old dog was getting on his last legs we got a young rescue dog from Spain with the idea it woud lessen the angst when Ben died. It actually made him perk up and he had another 9 months before suddenly deteriorating, less than a day between being OK and having to be put down.

Here's a picture which might cheer you up. As NJH says, get another one, at least it takes your mind off the one you've lost.

[john fletcher 1Participant @johnfletcher1]

Been very busy trimming the privet hedges then cleaning out my old motor bike petrol tank, using hydrochloric acid (industrial toilet cleaner) I filled up yesterday and left it over night. I'm amazed just how much rubbish came out, gave it a good flush through with tap water, then I filtered the acid using old nylon stockings and put it back in tank for a second go. I hope I've done the right thing, I have some tank sealant ready for use later. John

[Clive HartlandParticipant @clivehartland94829]

Now is the time I start taking honey off the bees, all nice and easy with no aggression nor stings. Spun out two lots now and that leaves one hive to go. Today I have been busy bottling and labeling the jars. All I need now are customers.

The 9 month old Airedale bitch keeps nicking the pan scourers, she rips them to pieces and then I shout and she sits on the lawn dog faced, she knows she has done wrong. Suddenly she does not like the car? I get her in and she wants to get out. Not sure what is up.

Clive

[SamsarandaParticipant @samsaranda]

Clive if I lived closer to you I would be in your customer base for honey. Can't beat proper English honey as against some of the Rubbish that they label as honey in the supermarkets. I am sure that you will have no trouble finding customers.

Dave

[David Standing 1Participant @davidstanding1]

Posted by Clive Hartland on 18/08/2017 17:08:57:

Now is the time I start taking honey off the bees, all nice and easy with no aggression nor stings. Spun out two lots now and that leaves one hive to go. Today I have been busy bottling and labeling the jars. All I need now are customers.

The 9 month old Airedale bitch keeps nicking the pan scourers, she rips them to pieces and then I shout and she sits on the lawn dog faced, she knows she has done wrong. Suddenly she does not like the car? I get her in and she wants to get out. Not sure what is up.

Clive

Has she been speyed? She is about the right age to have her first season, as she would be about sexually mature at nine months. She might also be having the 'terrible twos'.

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

Cricket ground hired out to nearby village last night. This morning broken window pane. mmmmm fortunately the head groundsman is taking care of it so I can continue to listen to the test match commentary.

[Michael ToppingParticipant @michaeltopping17870]

Can't see any mention of the Bristol M E show on the site at all. Went today, very enjoyable, slightly different set of traders that you get at Midlands and London. Very good display of all types of models not so much workshop equipment.

For me as a confirmed Bulleid nerd the favourite display was that of Building Bulleid Locos to commemorate 50 years since the end of Southern Region steam. Never seen so many Bulleid locos in one place. Q1 in 3.5 & 5" gauges. Merchant Navy Pacifics & West Countries in both rebuilt and original condition, some complete some in progress.

The standard of workmanship on the models was first class.

By coincidence I was collecting a set of Ariel drawings from MJ engineering as a very long term project.

Unfortunately didn't get any photos maybe someone else has some.

Michael

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Thanks for the thoughts.

We still have Luna, who is a three and a half year old puppy and Fluffy, a 14 year old cat.

This morning Luna wouldn't touch her food, not even a bit of stilton or a chewy, until afterwards. Normally she would chew her way into the can!

Neil

[WatfordParticipant @watford]

Neil

Always sad to loose a pet who has given such pleasure.

Thoughts are with you.

Mike

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

A couple of potential new workshop apprentices are being assessed at the moment, of all the places to go I had a look at one last night on the isle of sheppey and before you ask he won't be called shep.

[Brian HParticipant @brianh50089]

My condolences Neil & Jason, it's always sad to lose a friend.

Brian

[Howard LewisParticipant @howardlewis46836]

Neil, Jason, Remember the happy times that you had together.

And for a rescued animal, think that they had a good home, food, shelter and affection where otherwise they would have not, and had a much shorter, and less happy life. You provided love and pleasure for each other.

My wife helps at, and fund raises for, a dog refuge, and she so enjoys seeing a frightened scruffy thin animal come in and then go off to a new home as a more confident, healthy and chubbier animal.

Sometimes when they come back to "reminisce", they are hardly recogniseable as the one who first arrived.

Howard

[Clive HartlandParticipant @clivehartland94829]

Hello David, Yes, Tess has been spayed about 2 months back. Before that where she peed on the grass it killed it but now it has no effect anymore. She is a big girl now and weighs in at 44 lb. She just about equals the weight of my last Airedale. It's no joke when she wants to sit on ones lap, I cannot see the tele.

She is at the moment in the defiant stage where she tries it on and only obeys if I pressure her. Normal commands , sit and stay are working but she is still on a lead walking out, if I release her she would be gone and at 80 I cannot run after her. Latest trick is catching wasps and eating them. She knocks them down and stomps on them and gobbles them up, Bees too!

Clive

[Mick HenshallParticipant @mickhenshall99321]

Don't you just love them, had 3 rescue dogs everyone an individual miss them all xxx

Mick

[HopperParticipant @hopper]

Finally (after only a year or so of work,) got the fabricated Versatile Dividing Head to the GH Thomas design to the point where it can be used to drill the holes in its own indexing disks — to a theoretical accuracy of 1,000th of a degree no less!

Trick is to drill the first of three index plates so it has one circle of 60 holes. I shorcutted GHT's suggested method by using my own addition to his design, a plunger that directly engages with the 60T "wormwheel" gear to give 60 divisions.

Then the disk with the 60 hole circle is transferred on to the indexing attachment and from this we can index all the rest of the hole circles on all three disks.

This is done by using the facility of one full turn of the handle equals one tooth on the wormwheel, or 6 degrees, therefore each of the 60 holes in the circle equals one 60th of that, or one tenth of a degree. To get closer to our goal we then GHT's cunning Micro Adjustment Attachment, which reads off in one thousandths of a degree.

It does this by engaging a worm with another 60T wormwheel on the back of the indexing disk holder, thus rotating the disck itself by one 60th of a turn for each full turn of the knob, which is graduated into one hundred graduations. This advances the disk that little extra bit, which takes the handle with it and thus advances the main spindle by that tiny amount.

Paintstaking work, with each movement requiring the counting of handle turns, then the use of the sector fingers to add so many holes, then the rotation of the micro adjust dial to add the few extra thousandths of a degree. GHT says he took about 20 seconds per hole. I don't know how. It takes me 30 seconds just to make the above adjustment to the indexing set up, then another 30 seconds to drill the hole itself. Plus with a bit of faffing about, about 40 minutes to drill a circle of 30-something holes. All up there are about 850 holes to drill in the three plates, so a minimum of 14 hours of work!!!

At least GHT did all the math and laid out charts of how many turns, holes and micro adjustment settings for each hole in each circle (he really was a terror!) so all I have to do is keep track of where I am at.

Then when I get done drilling all 850 or so holes, I get to deburr each one, both sides with a tiny chamfer. I can hardly wait.

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[Tony JeffreeParticipant @tonyjeffree56510]

This is exactly why I built my DivisionMaster.

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