What Did You Do Today (2017)

[Gordon WParticipant @gordonw]

Theakstons Old Peculiar was sold in 1/3 pint glasses, about 9% from memory. Now long gone and not to be confused with the modern stuff. Here in N Scotland there is some very good beer, esp. from Orkney. Great hilarity in pub the other night when the landlord spelt whisky with an extra e, singing of Irish songs etc. SOD is correct about spelling. PS my second hobby is real beer, keeps me healthy as well.

[Tony JeffreeParticipant @tonyjeffree56510]

Posted by SillyOldDuffer on 04/10/2017 21:37:30:

Rough Scrumpy was another Somerset treat. Tasted horrible, got you stupid-drunk very quickly and then you were violently ill in the morning. Marvellous!

Edited By SillyOldDuffer on 04/10/2017 21:38:06

It is a very effective drain cleaner…

[SamsarandaParticipant @samsaranda]

Used to really enjoy "real" beers, have sampled some truly magnificent ales in various regions of the British Isles, alas no longer, I have developed a sensitivity to gluten and unfortunately beers, and whisky for that matter, contain gluten carried through the process from the basic ingredients. Only a small amount of gluten precipitates an unpleasant reaction, there are now appearing on the market gluten free beers, have not felt desperate enough to try them yet so if I feel the need to relax with alcohol I now drink red wine, it's not so bad when you get used to it.

Dave

[David Standing 1Participant @davidstanding1]

Posted by Tony Jeffree on 05/10/2017 10:44:09:

Posted by SillyOldDuffer on 04/10/2017 21:37:30:

Rough Scrumpy was another Somerset treat. Tasted horrible, got you stupid-drunk very quickly and then you were violently ill in the morning. Marvellous!

Edited By SillyOldDuffer on 04/10/2017 21:38:06

It is a very effective drain cleaner…

Before it had been through your system, or after?!

[Martin KyteParticipant @martinkyte99762]

Works better if you mix it with Guinness.

Martin

[Clive HartlandParticipant @clivehartland94829]

With all the talk of climate change and weather perturbations I was extremely surprised to find a Bee swarm appear in an empty Nucleus hive! This in September. It has no hope of survival over the Winter and I feel I can do nothing to help them as they would need 30 lb of stores and the nucleus box would not hold that much. How did the Queen mate as there are no drones at this time of year?

Then, on examining a full hive I find it completely taken over by Wax Moth, this meant I had to strip it down and burn all the combs, wax, honey etc. Ensuring I found all the grubs and pupated moths.This is so strange as I have never had this kind of problem before.

Otherwise all the other hives are OK.

Clive

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Anyone else here tried Samichlaus Bier (I think that's right…) supposedly the strongest beer in the world.

Neil

[Tony JeffreeParticipant @tonyjeffree56510]

Can’t say I have…but I tend to prefer traditional British beers brewed to around 3% ABV that you can drink a few pints of without becoming emotionally overtired.

[MuzzerParticipant @muzzer]

As my colleagues in China are all on holiday this week (Moon Festival) I've had a few half days off myself, which has allowed me to get some workshop time in. I'm getting better at this CAM / CNC stuff, notwithstanding the hamfisted idiot I share it with that runs amok in there from time to time and breaks all my tools.

This morning I got the mamchine, tools and work (in the soft jaws) set up to finish the machining of my X axis housing. Just before lunchtime I was able to put on my rubber underpants and push the big green button. All went well and 26 minutes later this is what I got:

The setup time is coming down, as is the "paranoia time" spent double checking the tool lengths and stepping through the program on the machine. There's always room to cock something up but I'm finding it easier to set stuff up and convince myself it's looking good without wasting half of the day.

I have to say, even allowing for the CAM work and machine setup time, it would take me considerably longer to make this manually and it would end up with a few bodges along the way, speaking from experience. This is starting to make sense to me now.

As for Fusion 360, it has its differences from the likes of Solidworks etc but once you've got over that, the CAD and particularly the CAM are pretty straightforward and very capable indeed. The CAM for this only took me 20-30 minutes and I'd have done the CAD no matter how I'd planned to make it.

Murray

[Andy Freeman 1Participant @andyfreeman1]

Yesterday I tried to 'move' a chunk of 20mm plate that someone had left lying on the workshop floor with my foot.

After finding out I have broken my little toe and learning how to use crutches, I now wish I had just bent down and lifted it up

[RobinParticipant @robin]

Posted by Andy Freeman 1 on 06/10/2017 17:02:37:

Yesterday I tried to 'move' a chunk of 20mm plate that someone had left lying on the workshop floor with my foot.

So the person who collected you from the hospital made you carry your own shoe and took pictures of you on crutches when they could have been fetching the car round to save you a walk.

Sounds horribly familiar

[John GardenerParticipant @johngardener91897]

Today I spent some time fettling a flintlock rifle but the best part of my day was this evening. As the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month approaches, we went to the Naval Memorial on Plymouth Hoe.

[Cornish JackParticipant @cornishjack]

Spent yet another day de-rusting workshop items recovered from the 2013 trashing. I HATE RUST!!! I have more or less settled on white vinegar to do the major effort but (somewhat late in the day) found that B&D drill plus round wire brush is MUCH quicker (and less bother). Evaporust was alright but not noticeably more effective than vinegar. What did work particularly well was a derusting spray from Lidls – Pattex manufactured – and, of course I only bought one can and haven't seen it since.

One item almost ready for reinstatement is the Perfecto shaper. The motor pulley is about 3" diameter and the drive pulley approx 12". Does anybody have the tables giving minimum shaft separation for good drive transmission, please?

rgds

Bill

[Ian S CParticipant @iansc]

Hi Bill, can't find a specific distance, but chose a distance that will give a good wrap around the 3" pulley, I' be thinking maybe 18". I assume that you have an A section belt or similar, My Rexon mill drives from a 2" pulley on the smallest of the 3 on the motor, and uses a B section belt, the original one didn't last long, and I replaced it with an automotive one with V notches on the inner surface, still going after 20 years.

Ian S C

[John HinkleyParticipant @johnhinkley26699]

Bill,

Now that I re-read your post, I'm not sure this is going to help, but here goes, anyway. My recently purchased Perfecto powered shaper is mounted on a purpose-built [by the previous owner] stand and has a sort of under-drive transmission arrangement as shown below:

The pulleys are motor – 35mmØ and driven – 210mmØ – both outside dimensions. The centre distance is 325mm. The belt dimensions are as in the right hand photo and the motor sits on a hinged plate for adjustment of the belt tension. Like I said, probably not what you're after, but might give you a start. Other photos are in my album "Perfecto Shaper" -snappy title, eh?

John

Edited By John Hinkley on 07/10/2017 16:06:55

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by Cornish Jack on 06/10/2017 23:28:28:

What did work particularly well was a derusting spray from Lidls – Pattex manufactured – and, of course I only bought one can and haven't seen it since.

Is that the one sold for loosening (Dumpy's) rusty nuts?

I have half a can left, works well.

Neil

[MuzzerParticipant @muzzer]

Friday evening I thought it was time to clean the CNC machine, given that it was piled high with swarf. One thing led to another and I took it to its illogical conclusion ie ended up dismantling the machine vise. It seems to be a weekend for vise dismantling, so I am in good company.

This is a Chinese Kurt clone I bought in Canada a few years back. Some parts are distinctly sub par, like the "spherical" seat element and the ball thrust bearing which seems to be made of unhardened Chinesium. As well as ending up in a concave shape, the inner race has disintegrated so my balls dropped(!) when I loosened the leadscrew collar. I've ordered what I believe to be a suitable replacement from Arc Euro and will be adding a thrust collar to help the thing to cope better.

Murray

[MuzzerParticipant @muzzer]

Further to my investigation into the machine vise, I removed the rest of the parts and was concerned to find that the underside of the "bed" wasn't actually fully machined on account of the casting not being quite thick enough. So they'd skimmed the underside but not actually exposed a clean, flat sliding surface. For vises like this with the "angle lock" feature, the travelling nut acts on this underside face to pull the travelling jaws down.

My first thought was to use my (only) dovetail cutter to reface the undercut but it wouldn't reach far enough. I reckon I'd need about 7mm and the dovetail cutter can only just about manage 5mm. The solution was to use my internal grooving / facing tool (Korloy MGT) as a milling cutter. That can achieve the 7mm undercut with a mm or so to spare. Using the CNC machine in manual mode, I was able to touch off on the surfaces with an indicator and then take a series of cuts. Needed to take off almost 1mm in the end but hopefully that won't be a bit issue, given the way these things work.

Finally, I'll clean up the rough (cast) surfaces of the travelling nut where they contact the moving jaws and the "spherical" self-aligning element before reassembling with the new thrust bearing.

If I'd bought this from a reputable supplier, this work might not have been necessary. Having said that, I recall paying peanuts for it in one of those inexplicable but massive price reductions that North American retailers seem to specialise in.

Murray

[Cornish JackParticipant @cornishjack]

Ian S C – thank you – 18" is problematical for what I was intending.

John H – thank you also. Your set up is just as mine was when I had it installed previously. What I was hoping to do was set up a horizontal drive on a shorter 'between centres' distance but it seems that your set up (and my previous) is the maker's preferred.

Neil – Very probably – As with a lot of Lidl's items, they appear for a few days and then vanish. Will have to keep watch for a reappearance.

rgds

Bill

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Found out why my phone's wifi connection was so slow. It was using my wife's inkjet printer as a connection point instead of going direct to the router!

I couldn't work out why my PC had a fill signal but the phone didn't… the printer is at the far end of the house!

Neil

[Chris Evans 6Participant @chrisevans6]

Picked up some EN24T for a project this morning, then made the mistake of starting to try and replace a broken screen on my Grandsons I Pad. Completed and working but by then I had lost interest in the project I was intending to do. Early start tomorrow to catch up.

[RobinParticipant @robin]

Bolek, the wheel lock man in Poland, sent me more pictures today of the Elizabethan wheely he is repairing for me. I could fix it myself of course, but if Bolek does it then it will work like a charm and actually increase in value

[John GardenerParticipant @johngardener91897]

What is the wheel-lock, do you have a picture?

I have just started the final stage of building a repro Baker with a rifled barrel. I have no photo's to my shame as I should have documented every stage.

I am hoping to take it to Bisley this week-end to test it before it goes to the proof house.

Keep everything crossed for me please

[RobinParticipant @robin]

Hi John, all I have is the lock c1580. I bought it in sad condition on ebay many years ago.

You have made a Baker? Now that really needs a picture

[Roderick JenkinsParticipant @roderickjenkins93242]

Posted by John Gardener on 09/10/2017 21:46:48:

I am hoping to take it to Bisley this week-end to test it before it goes to the proof house.

Please forgive my ignorance in these matters, but that seems like the wrong order to me

Cheers,

Rod

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