What did you do Today 2018

[duncan webster 1Participant @duncanwebster1]

Modern machines use so little water that if you connect them to the hot system you get mostly cold in the washer and hot in the pipework, where it then goes cold. You have to heat it electrically no matter what.

[J HancockParticipant @jhancock95746]

And that's the other thing, my 'Never Die' is a 5kg load max, all these new ones are 7kg min.,then 9 and 11kg.

How big are these families ?

[MuzzerParticipant @muzzer]

How small is your family? Can you do all your washing in one load of a 5kg machine per week? I assume you actually wear fresh clothes each day?

Can your machine do a 20C or 40C wash? That requires a lot less energy to heat the water.

Murray

Edited By Muzzer on 30/04/2018 19:23:24

[J HancockParticipant @jhancock95746]

Family of one, even at one pant/day it would be weeks before I could do a wash on these new machines.

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

Who weighs their clothes? I find 5 days worth loose fills the machine so that sorts it whatever it weighs. At least us men don't have the problem of trying to separate different colours and all that malarkey.

[Mark RandParticipant @markrand96270]

Fresh clothes every day? Why?

[MuzzerParticipant @muzzer]

So you don't stink. Bit like having a shower every day. Or is that a weekly event too?

[David Standing 1Participant @davidstanding1]

Ah, Sunday night bath night when you were a schoolkid back in the 1960's!

[RobinParticipant @robin]

The bath was in the kitchen, there was a plank arrangement on top 6 days a week to turn it in to the kitchen table. The kitchen window had another plank nailed across it to hold the cold water tap with it's lead pipework.

It all seems boringly normal until viewed as a 60 year old memory

[Jon GibbsParticipant @jongibbs59756]

Getting very close now with the final parts of Harold Hall's end mill sharpening fixture.

Just a final milling of flats onto the 6-way indexing collar left, and it's done.

Couldn't resist and so had a try at sharpening the teeth on some end mills and slot drills last night and very happy with the results

I have bought a couple of cheap diamond wheels from Banggood and hope to fit them onto arbors soon to help touch up carbide tooling too.

Jon

[Wout MoermanParticipant @woutmoerman25063]

Clean socks and underwear every day. Shower every other day. Clothes almost a week. But I dress casual and don't do hard labour. Now on holiday I shower every morning because of the sweaty hotel beds wit synthetic sheets and all.

[RobinParticipant @robin]

Wow! Every other day? Have you not discovered Aluminum trichloride hexahydrate; AlCl3.6H2O? It could liberate you.

[Perko7Participant @perko7]

Posted by Ian S C on 26/04/2018 12:35:34:

Our Men's Shed (just getting started) has been given a rather scruffy Model A Boxford lathe, I spent the morning cleaning the lathe, and sorting some of the bits and pieces that came with it. the only damage I have found so far is in the 4 jaw chuck, 3 out of 4 of the square key holes have a side out of them. The chuck is fairly tight on the spindle, I have not tried too hard to get it off yet. On looking up the hand book I can see the reason for the broken holes, the book says put the chuck key in a hole and give a good bump with your hand. There is a 3 jaw chuck, plus a brand new Bernard 3 jaw that needs a back plate. Looks like I have a wee job on getting the machine up and running, but from what I see it is actually in not too bad condition.

Ian S C

Ian, i had a related problem with a 4-jaw in which one of the adjusters snapped where it was waisted to engaged with the fingers on the back of the jaws. I replaced them all with high-tensile socket-head grub screws (1/2" BSW if i remember correctly). Chose grub screws of the same length as the original adjuster and turned a new waist on each to mate with the chuck jaws, replaced the square key with aT-handle Allen key and job done.

[Perko7Participant @perko7]

Delivered to the machinery service mechanic's workshop a refurbished water pump to suit my chinese tractor for which no replacement water pump seals could be found. Had to turn up a couple of sleeves, one to press into the existing housing and one for the back of the impellor, to match the dimensions of available pump seals. We'll see if it all works once reassembled. Hope it does as the slasher has been without a tractor for 3 weeks now and the grass is nearly waist-high.

[Mark RandParticipant @markrand96270]

Needed to slit a metre of square ERW tube lengthways and the only way I could think of was to use a slitting wheel on the surface grinder. First attempt failed because some moron had not lined up the magnetic chuck properly when I'd put it there several years ago.

Ended up grinding the table and the bottom of the chuck to get the rust off them, spraying some zinc rich paint on them to slow the metal worm down, then grinding top of chuck, carefully aligning the chuck and skimming the chuck's fence.

That took two days. The slitting of the tube was quite quick. Now I've just got to take the banana shape out of the resulting two pieces of 'channel' after the built in stresses relaxed. .

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

Having got up at 5 am I was surprised to find others around and not to walk the dog or listen to birds. The full moon and Venus? lit one direction and the sun about to rise the other as a troop of Morris Ladies were heading out to an old burial mound to dance. Hopefully they have guaranteed good crops and fine weather for the year. I knew druids did this at midsummer but have never got up so early to see them on May 1st. I would have liked to observe but had to get away for an early meeting with the boss who then didn't turn up. grrrr.

[David CambridgeParticipant @davidcambridge45658]

I’ve finally managed to get my Lidar up and running. If you’ve not heard of these before they are just like radar, but use a beam of infra-red light rather than radio waves to build up a 3D scan of an area. Admittedly straying from model engineering, but It’s been a really fun project with lots of shop work, lots of electronics work, and lots of software work. I’ve still a good few hundred hours of footage to edit down before I can get together a build video, but here is a demo of the first results.

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

That's an excellent project, David … Thanks for giving us sight of it.

I look forward to seeing a detailed write-up.

MichaelG.

[Trevor Crossman 1Participant @trevorcrossman1]

Posted by Robin on 01/05/2018 11:23:47:

Wow! Every other day? Have you not discovered Aluminum trichloride hexahydrate; AlCl3.6H2O? It could liberate you.

Ha-ha, we're on dodgy ground talking about personal habits, but it really does depend on the individual, their level and type of activity, their work and also very much what they eat and drink when considering washing frequency. Some individuals can sit around all day, never break into a sweat, but absolutely pong even though they frequently bathe. Covering oneself in an aluminium compound is not really a very good thing to do, though millions do use deoderants/ anti-perspirants daily. Perspiration is a perfectly natural way for the body to excrete waste but one can also be overzealous in removing it and then end up with skin problems. As one who has suffered in recent years with some skin problems, possibly though insufficient PPE care and the subsequent contamination and then harsh cleaning, I now have to be very careful in my methods of washing, hands and arms especially. Going from our perfume-free home into public places, I am extremely surprised that the majority of the population can smell anything at all given the level of massive levels of refumery that drifts from them, their cars and clothes.

Trevor

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by David Cambridge on 02/05/2018 12:57:08:

I’ve finally managed to get my Lidar up and running. If you’ve not heard of these before they are just like radar, but use a beam of infra-red light rather than radio waves to build up a 3D scan of an area. Admittedly straying from model engineering, but It’s been a really fun project with lots of shop work, lots of electronics work, and lots of software work. I’ve still a good few hundred hours of footage to edit down before I can get together a build video, but here is a demo of the first results.

K3wl!

Lidar is much used for contour mapping of river corridors by the Environment Agency, as it can 'see' through a tree canopy.

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by Bazyle on 01/05/2018 22:33:22:

Having got up at 5 am I was surprised to find others around and not to walk the dog or listen to birds. The full moon and Venus? lit one direction and the sun about to rise the other as a troop of Morris Ladies were heading out to an old burial mound to dance. Hopefully they have guaranteed good crops and fine weather for the year. I knew druids did this at midsummer but have never got up so early to see them on May 1st. I would have liked to observe but had to get away for an early meeting with the boss who then didn't turn up. grrrr.

5am? Probably Jupiter, you should have been able to spot Mars and Saturn further east too

Sadly all very low down in the sky this year, so a challenge for photography. This is my Jupiter from a few weeks ago.

Venus is about just after sunset.

[RobinParticipant @robin]

Why is Jupiter looking to the right? Is something going on up there?

We should be told

Edited By Robin on 02/05/2018 15:31:58

[V8EngParticipant @v8eng]

Posted by Robin on 02/05/2018 15:30:57:

Why is Jupiter looking to the right? Is something going on up there?

We should be told

Edited By Robin on 02/05/2018 15:31:58

 

It had probably just spotted Venus.😉

Edited By V8Eng on 02/05/2018 15:58:11

[RobinParticipant @robin]

You get a classier selection of people on this web site, I bet Sol 7 never crossed your mind

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

no it didn't , and google hasn't helped clarify what the connection is.

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