What did you do Today 2018

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Something good happened!

Looked at my collection of homebrew tools and one of the counterbores is exactly the right size for M3 cap screws.

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by richardandtracy on 06/06/2018 09:15:23:

I have always wondered why people choose to run a marathon when mechanical assistance (like a bicycle) makes it so much more energy efficient. Saw one comparison that suggested you need to cycle 18 miles to burn the same energy as walking 1 mile. Shows the efficiency improvement to me. The power required may be somewhat higher though, as the speed tends to be considerably greater.

Depends on what you cycle up!

[ChrisHParticipant @chrish]

Neil – post 03/06/2018 13:08:25 . Nice Staffy yes, but only part Staffy. Mum was a Staffy, but Dad was a Chihuahua. No I don't know how he managed it either but 100% for perseverance, effort and determination. Perhaps there was a stepladder involved?

Now aged 6.5 months and just under 7kg, the pup looks like she will be under 10kg at full grown and is quite small, sort of Jack Russel sized. Friendly, loyall loving, playful and totally deaf when she wants to be, which is often!

Chris

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

Checked every key I could find that might fit trailer padlock. Eventually gave up and instantly found it on car keys

[dcostaParticipant @dcosta]

Hello all,

18 years ago (I was 50 years old), almost at the end of a short train ride, I felt slightly dizzy. A few minutes later, as I got out of the train, I fell and felt completely dizzy and almost fainted. My wife was with me and prevented me from falling on the rails …
After that event I started to hear a hissing in my right ear and my notion of direction of my movement as I walked changed: moving on the sidewalk, if I went to pass by a lamppost, it was certain that most of the time I hit him. It also happened to me that, for example, when I put a drinking glass among other cups in a cupboard, I would often lose direction and hit the other glasses.
Several months after the event I consulted a medical specialist whom we call "neuro otorhinolaryngologist". After several examinations, the doctor concluded that my problem was of balance and then I made a treatment in 10 sessions that consisted of staying in a room and watching for 15 minutes at a distance of approximately 5 meters, the projection on the wall in front of images in fragmented, small, colorful, random geometric figures.
At the end of the second session I no longer hit the light poles on the sidewalk!

I asked the doctor to explain to me what that treatment had done for me, and knowing that my profession was a programmer / analyst, he told me, using an analogy, that the treatment had replaced in my brain one routine for another …
Since then, the problem of loss of balance has never been manifested.

Dias Costa

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Dias – you've been rebooted!

Chris – awwww!

neil

[SamsarandaParticipant @samsaranda]

Decided that it was necessary to start tidying the workshop yesterday, managed about a third of it and decided that any more decluttering would certainly give the dustman a hernia on bin day. Where does all this stuff, rubbish my wife calls it, come from? Problem if I throw it away today then I will certainly need it next week. My workshop ends up as a repository for anything that my wife doesn’t want indoors, built her a separate shed to alleviate the problem in my workshop but she now fiercely defends the new shed as her gardening shed and still routes house surplus to my workshop, you can never win. Took time out from workshop tidying today to carry out repairs to one of the launchers at our clay shooting range, it went down on Sunday during our annual shooting competition which caused a bit of a problem but we worked round it and completed the competition with a shortened programme. The problem with the launcher turned out to be a circuit board, fortunately we obtained one on a next day delivery and fitted it this morning and now everything is working again, ready for next Sunday. Hope the weather is as good then as last Sunday.

Dave W

[richardandtracyParticipant @richardandtracy]

Posted by Bazyle on 06/06/2018 23:13:14:

Checked every key I could find that might fit trailer padlock. Eventually gave up and instantly found it on car keys

I have done something similar. I spent 30 minutes looking for my glasses all round the house before I realised the reason I was able to look so diligently and easily was because I was wearing them.

Regards,

Richard.

[dcostaParticipant @dcosta]

Dias – you've been rebooted!

Chris – awwww!

neil

Yes Neil!
But only that part of my brain…

Dias Costa

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

I thought I was someone who never finished projects, but I have realised most of my problem is all the finished projects using up bench, cupboard and shelf space.

[SamsarandaParticipant @samsaranda]

Neil, I have the same problem, I will have to seriously tackle finishing some of them.

Dave W

[mechman48Participant @mechman48]

PC automatically updated to new OS 1803 Tues, had nothing but bother when trying to view videos from you tube + other sources, pc kept freezing up, had to keep rebooting. Seemingly it is causing a few probs for quite a number of W10 users from what I can see on the MS trouble shooting forum. Why can't MS use the old engineers adage ' if it aint broke, don't fix it!. Seems as though MS think that updating OS when there's nowt wrong with it keeps them in a job…client development I think they call it. They should concentrate on security matters, not 'dream apps' or 'this is new try it'. Had to revert back to previous edition W10 to get any 'semblance of usability back on to my pc. No doubt MS will force the new edition onto my pc in the near future…

George.

[Rick Kirkland 1Participant @rickkirkland1]

Finished projects? No, never, ever finish anything before you start something else. That way you'll never be stuck for something to do. It works fine for me anyway.

[MWParticipant @mw27036]

Don't know if this is the right place to put this, but i'd recommend giving some of the popular woodworking magazines a go, if you happen by your local WH smith or newsagents. They have a lot of tips which could easily cross over into metalworking or just "general workshop practice".

I got one recently that showed you how you can make temporary vice jigs for large bits of wood or intricate work, with an arrangement of G clamps and studding.

Very handy.

Michael W

[John HinkleyParticipant @johnhinkley26699]

Dias – you've been rebooted!

Chris – awwww!

neil

I asked my wife to turn me off and then back on again. It works with the computer. All I got was blank looks.

John

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by Michael-w on 09/06/2018 15:13:33:

Don't know if this is the right place to put this, but i'd recommend giving some of the popular woodworking magazines a go, if you happen by your local WH smith or newsagents. They have a lot of tips which could easily cross over into metalworking or just "general workshop practice".

I got one recently that showed you how you can make temporary vice jigs for large bits of wood or intricate work, with an arrangement of G clamps and studding.

Very handy.

Michael W

It's the right place if you mean Good Woodworking and The Woodworker

http://www.getwoodworking.com/

Neil

[Speedy Builder5Participant @speedybuilder5]

Did a bit of wood work myself today – put the last of the rafters in for the Garage.

[Ron LadenParticipant @ronladen17547]

I bought a new cordless drill/driver.

Now when I woke this morning I had no idea that buying a new drill/driver was something I would be doing.

Next Thursday I have a new shed arriving, I was going to try and repair the old shed but its too far gone. So today the job was to make a shed base using 4 x 2 timber fixed together with 6.7 x 100 hex head Timbascrews. Using my trusty old (10 years) driver I managed to fix one screw but on the second it gave up with smoke coming from the motor. I knew its days were numbered from the last time I used it so I decided to call it a day and replace it.

I went on to the Screwfix website thinking maybe Bosch, Makita, DeWalt when I noticed a Titan. I,ve never heard of them but it read well with good spec and had quite a lot of good reviews. The top makes (with offers) start around the £100 mark but the Titan which is obviously a budget brand was £49.99 so I took the plunge. It comes with 2 battery packs 18 volt – 1.5ah, a 60 minute charger and carry case. I am really taken with the drill, its quite a lot smaller and lighter than my old drill, its well balanced with a nice comfortable feel to the grip. The usual features, two speed, reverse, variable clutch, LED and keyless chuck.

Well I,ve been using it all the afternoon and the 6.7 x 100 screws take quite a bit of driving but the Titan coped with no problems. The batteries last well and they do charge quickly, I also think the drills power/torque figures must be on the higher side. I know I,ve only used it for one afternoon but if it continues like it did today then £49.99 is a snip.

Picture below

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

I think Titan is the Screwfix own brand. Battery drills and screws seem to have replaced the old hammer and nail. While this has a number of advantages during construction I think it will make long term maintenance and repair more difficult. I replaced a shed roof at the cricket club last year and a pro builder had patched it with rusty screws which meant it took hours to dissemble with a saw rather than minutes with a crowbar.

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

Mmmmmm "Forum error" posting above meant I had to save and repost which made it use a bigger font. Lets see what this one comes out as.

[NigeParticipant @nige81730]

Something I have been meaning to do for ages: replace a knackered and rusty 5 foot twin fluorescent fitting with an LED Batten fitting. On the spur of the moment I diverted into Screwfix on my way home and asked the guy for an LED 5 foot twin batten fitting. He came back with a 60w 5600 lumen item priced at around 35 quid.

It is very light in weight being mostly polycarbonate and the enclosure is rated IP 66. It was a doddle to fit only needing two screws to fit it to a joist in the workshop and wiring couldn't be simpler. The units can be chained together electrically so installing the next two, a couple of 4 foot versions over the lathe and the mill will be simple.

When I switched it on I was very pleasantly surprised by the quality of the light and the brightness of it. On looking up the equivalent of 5600 lumens I was pleased to find that it is in excess of 200W equivalent in tungsten incandescent lamps. The thing has a 3 year guarantee.

**LINK**

I would post the usual "I have no connection……" disclaimer except that I work for B&Q who are part of the Kingfisher Group that also owns Screwfix 😊

[Tony JeffreeParticipant @tonyjeffree56510]

Posted by Nige on 09/06/2018 22:16:05:

Something I have been meaning to do for ages: replace a knackered and rusty 5 foot twin fluorescent fitting with an LED Batten fitting. On the spur of the moment I diverted into Screwfix on my way home and asked the guy for an LED 5 foot twin batten fitting. He came back with a 60w 5600 lumen item priced at around 35 quid.

It is very light in weight being mostly polycarbonate and the enclosure is rated IP 66. It was a doddle to fit only needing two screws to fit it to a joist in the workshop and wiring couldn't be simpler. The units can be chained together electrically so installing the next two, a couple of 4 foot versions over the lathe and the mill will be simple.

When I switched it on I was very pleasantly surprised by the quality of the light and the brightness of it. On looking up the equivalent of 5600 lumens I was pleased to find that it is in excess of 200W equivalent in tungsten incandescent lamps. The thing has a 3 year guarantee.

**LINK**

I would post the usual "I have no connection……" disclaimer except that I work for B&Q who are part of the Kingfisher Group that also owns Screwfix 😊

I fitted 4 similar units in my workshop – they are excellent. If you have existing fluorescent fittings a slightly cheaper option is to replace the tubes with LED tubes. They supply a replacement "starter" but apart from that it is plug and play.

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

I've been struggling to get a really smooth action on the speed reducer for my telescope focuser. It's hard to turn a really neat ~ 1/8" wide groove in 1/8" diameter stainless steel!

I solved it tonight by finding a 3mm brown wheel for my rechargeable dremel, and clamping it to the toolpost of my mini lathe.With the wheel rotating at about 4,000rpm and the lathe at about 600, the job was a cinch, and the drive worked straight away, without the endless fiddling with the bearings required before

neil

[Perko7Participant @perko7]

Not exactly 'today' but have spent a few hours this week making working door latches for the cab doors on my diesel loco. Took longer to make than design (funny how that works some times). They rely on weight of handles to return locking tab to 'locked' position but work every time. Most of the time spent filing 1.6mm square holes in handles and locking tabs to be snug fit on 1.6mm square shafts.

Haven't finished tidying up yet as i'll need to do a bit more before painting.

[Ron LadenParticipant @ronladen17547]

Thanks Nige for the link on the LED Batten fitting, good timing as once the shed is built I will need lighting and I was thinking a 5 foot long twin fitting.

Cheers

Ron

Edited By Ron Laden on 10/06/2018 08:55:42

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