What Did You Do Today (2017)

[V8EngParticipant @v8eng]

Posted by Neil Wyatt on 10/11/2017 08:26:29:

I heard from Stub Mandrel today.

He received an email from the lawyer of a deceased member of the Mandrel family, asking if he wanted to claim the estate.

Strangely the email address was for another Mandrel family member and did not contain any details of the solicitors involved aside from a name.

Nonetheless Stub awaits great riches for little effort.

Neil

 

Just think of the Workshop he could fit into some spare areas of a Stately Home, Test Tracks could be several miles long etc!

 

 

Edited By V8Eng on 10/11/2017 10:00:05

[David Standing 1Participant @davidstanding1]

Posted by Ian S C on 10/11/2017 09:58:09:

Did the other Mandrel family live in Nigera?

Ian S C

South Africa. Nelson Mandrela

[NJHParticipant @njh]

"I heard from Stub Mandrel today.

He received an email from the lawyer of a deceased member of the Mandrel family, asking if he wanted to claim the estate.

Strangely the email address was for another Mandrel family member and did not contain any details of the solicitors involved aside from a name.

Nonetheless Stub awaits great riches for little effort."

I doubt that he will be interested – I understand that he now has a cushy retirement job paying some a handsome salary …………………

Signed

An anonymous well wisher

[SillyOldDufferModerator @sillyoldduffer]

Do deceased Mandrels spin in their graves?

[David Standing 1Participant @davidstanding1]

Posted by SillyOldDuffer on 10/11/2017 11:04:58:

Do deceased Mandrels spin in their graves?

Only if ME forum members poke fun at them

[Mick B1Participant @mickb1]

I fixed the pedal lever on our kitchen bin.

We'd noticed the lid only lifted if you pressed the right-hand side of the pedal. Not good as it's less than a year old and 50L pedal bins are hard to find.

The pedal and lever is a plastic moulding – a hard polythene-like stuff, Kematal or suchlike – with a pivot sticking out either side which it would be a bit OTT to describe as 'moulded'. At the back end is a springy barbed protrusion that operates the thick wire pushrod for the lid. After a bit of a fiddle, you work out that you can lever aside the plastic walls that contain the pivot fulcra, pull out the pedal and disengage it from the pushrod.

What had happened was that the plastic sideframes of the pedal lever had cracked in tension, the left more seriously than the right because the crack was at the pivot.

I made up some reinforcing plates out of 1,5mm alli, drilled 'em 13mm to let the pivots through, then pop-rivetted them with 4mm x 8 long rivets fore and aft of the pivot. There wasn't really enough clearance between the fulcra to allow this extra width to swing freely, so I had to grind off most of the thickness of the rivet heads.

I'm hoping that won't matter.

The bin's reasonably well-designed, but a poor piece of work in manufacture. It was made in China, but I've seen stuff just as badly made in (eg) Birmingham.

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

Posted by Muzzer on 09/11/2017 08:12:01:

You can still buy 1A and 5A round pin plugs and sockets.

They are still standard in India ….. and my house.

[richardandtracyParticipant @richardandtracy]

An interesting conundrum. Does that mean that regardless of geography, your house is in India?

Regards

Richard

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by Robin on 09/11/2017 16:11:01:

I might have mentioned that I just bought my first ever broach to try, but that now seems so totally pathetic I probably didn't buy one after all

It's brave of you to broach the subject…

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

The Uxbridge English Dictionary

> fulcra

Lycra worn by a person of great girth.

[Mick B1Participant @mickb1]

Posted by Neil Wyatt on 10/11/2017 15:47:55:

The Uxbridge English Dictionary

> fulcra

Lycra worn by a person of great girth.

I wondered if I was asking for trouble using that word…

[Tony JeffreeParticipant @tonyjeffree56510]

“Do deceased Mandrels spin in their graves?”

No, they just taper off…

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[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

Went to a meeting of EDMES. Photo competition. Secretary and Chairman's son both winners. I would have won too but apparently you have to actually submit an entry. Next year.

Just as we were closing up the chairman got a text from a new member saying how much he had enjoyed the eventing and friendly atmosphere. Nice touch making use of modern tech and gave us a good feeling.

[larry PhelanParticipant @larryphelan54019]

That,s what they mean when they say "Terms and conditions apply" !!

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Here we go… I cast this today:

I think I have the 'lost PLA' technique dialed now.

Neil

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Posted by Neil Wyatt on 12/11/2017 19:26:23:

Here we go… I cast this today:

I think I have the 'lost PLA' technique dialed now.

Neil

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Sure looks that way, Neil

Aluminium I presume … but do tell me if I'm wrong.

MichaelG.

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by Michael Gilligan on 12/11/2017 19:33:06:

Sure looks that way, Neil

Aluminium I presume … but do tell me if I'm wrong.

MichaelG.

Thanks, brass scrap actually, with a small bit of 99% tin 1% copper solder thrown in so it is a sort of gunmetal.

The colour balance is a bit skew-whiff*, it's actually the sort of colour you would expect for gunmetal, a pale brass colour.

After the pour some 'partially dissolved' brass, leftovers from the previous run were still in the bottom, presumably it had lost zinc and didn't melt so easily compared to the other stuff which mixed with the tin. Luckily I melted a good excess of material.

Neil

*I think that's teh first time I have ever written that word down – I had to look up the spelling

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Posted by Neil Wyatt on 12/11/2017 20:27:52:

Posted by Michael Gilligan on 12/11/2017 19:33:06:

Sure looks that way, Neil

Aluminium I presume … but do tell me if I'm wrong.

Thanks, brass scrap actually, with a small bit of 99% tin 1% copper solder thrown in so it is a sort of gunmetal.

The colour balance is a bit skew-whiff*, it's actually the sort of colour you would expect for gunmetal, a pale brass colour. [ etc. ]

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Thanks for the clarification, Neil

I really couldn't make my mind up about the metal.

MichaelG.

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Incidentally: Family History reveals that some of my ancestors "Tub Cast" Brass. I don't know quite what that involves, but I believe it was a 'Cottage Industry' activity.

[davebParticipant @daveb17630]

Michael, a number of my ancestors were brass finishers, mainly in the Birmingham area.

Daveb

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

My maternal grandfather was a coppersmith in the RAF, which meant he worked brass…

Neil

Edit – apparently he would have been a C&SM "Sheet Metal and Coppersmith"

Edited By Neil Wyatt on 13/11/2017 02:05:46

[MikelkieParticipant @mikelkie]

I wanted to make some small taper pins, but the close proximity of the tail stock holding the work with a live centre makes it impossible to turn the top slide smoothly so i came up with this. (perhaps someone did this before?) The parts are all from redundend  Bridgeport quill feed gears

Edited By Mikelkie on 13/11/2017 20:47:50

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[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Nice one Mike. That too would make a neat article for MEW.

Neil

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