What did you do Today 2018

[Martin KyteParticipant @martinkyte99762]

Couple of comments for using scroll saws for cutting thing like brass clock wheels etc

I would say that the speed needs to be slower rather than faster. Generally the machines are intended to cut wood rather than metal where high cutting speeds produce cleaner cuts. I use piercing saw blades which cut well at 'handraulic' speeds.

A longer stroke is desirable. This uses more of the blade and extends the cutting life.

A blower is a boon to keep the cutting line clear so you can see what you are doing.

I did make something similar to what you describe but driver from the Myford Headstock (Hemmingway kit)

That way you get the speed control and motive power for free.

regards Martin

[mechman48Participant @mechman48]

Hi Sam
FYI…

As for the action…

George.

[Sam Longley 1Participant @samlongley1]

Thanks George . That is very helpful. Might even change my plan for the oscillation of the blade.Lot more compact. Have to do some sketches.

[brickyParticipant @bricky]

Fitted a base of a cheap drill that was useless as a drill to my floor standing drill column.This to support a car jack as my cross vice is getting heavy to lift.I bored the hole that was there larger to fitt the column,bolted some steel 6"*1/2" *3" to the underside had a 2 3/4" internal diameter tube split to allow two steel pieces drilled 1/2" all welded to the 6"steel a 12mm bolt and the jobs a good one.

Frank

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[Chris GillParticipant @chrisgill22114]

Just to prove nothing goes to waste …

Here's my rendering of Andy Johnston's headstock handwheel (MEW Autumn special). All materials from stock and the piece of wood was left over from making a new seat for a commode. It could have given someone a nasty surprise if I'd left all that metalwork attached!

[Mark RandParticipant @markrand96270]

That'll be a pleasure to use when tapping etc. Even safe to leave it attached most of the time!

[V8EngParticipant @v8eng]

I notice that there is a “We buy houses” add in the for sale section today, let’s hope it’s not the start of something.

Edited By V8Eng on 11/10/2018 10:05:33

[Ian PParticipant @ianp]

Posted by V8Eng on 11/10/2018 10:03:30:

I notice that there is a “We buy houses” add in the for sale section today, let’s hope it’s not the start of something.

Edited By V8Eng on 11/10/2018 10:05:33

By 'start of something' presumably you mean placing 'Wanted' ads in the For Sale section!

[V8EngParticipant @v8eng]

Posted by Ian P on 11/10/2018 10:22:49:

Posted by V8Eng on 11/10/2018 10:03:30:

By 'start of something' presumably you mean placing 'Wanted' ads in the For Sale section!

I was thinking of what happened on some other Forums which became swamped with unrelated adverts at times!

[Mark RandParticipant @markrand96270]

Do they buy workshops as well?

[KWILParticipant @kwil]

Posted by Alan Waddington 2 on 08/10/2018 23:49:27:

Posted by Bazyle on 08/10/2018 22:53:05:

Gosh, no posts for almost a week.
This ebay ad is interesting for the background. The passing of British manufacturing.

Haha, love the time and effort expended by the seller on the description ………What a beast, hope someone saves it !

The Willson lathe shown apears to be very similar to 7.5" centre x 5 ft V bed gap precision high speed lathe (477 rpm spindle speed), code word "Newel" selling for £232 in 1942. . Willson Lathes was of course founded in the late 1890s by George Willson, Edwin Barker and Fred Smith In Halifax and was later subsumed into the Elliot machine tools business in the 1960s. George Willson's wife Laura was a leading activist in respect of Women and later was awarded an MBE.

[mechman48Participant @mechman48]

Some beast; going to take some cleaning & renovating…

George.

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by V8Eng on 11/10/2018 10:39:54:

Posted by Ian P on 11/10/2018 10:22:49:

Posted by V8Eng on 11/10/2018 10:03:30:

By 'start of something' presumably you mean placing 'Wanted' ads in the For Sale section!

I was thinking of what happened on some other Forums which became swamped with unrelated adverts at times!

Just extra work for the poor, horny-handed sons of toil who are the moderators

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

Cleaned up parts of a bandsaw in the Men's Shed that our electrician doing PAT testing had declared obsolete and unmaintainable. As in needs a new blade and some guides readily sourced from ebay. Put some new wire on the NVR switch so he has no excuse next time. Will have to write up a training schedule for it.

Despite the 2 days of howling gales the nearby small wind generator set up by the local school I suppose for 'greenery' education has been steadfastly idle.

[Mark RandParticipant @markrand96270]

Drove 180 miles with the lad, me in one direction, him in the other. Picked up a pair of loudspeakers for the shed, so we can hear uncivilised music at the end where the lathe and milling machine are. The existing setup, gets drowned out by the sound of tortured machinery and metal and I didn't want to resort to Bluetooth headphones or move the existing speakers from the 'refined' end of the shed!

[Sam Longley 1Participant @samlongley1]

Loud speakers— The work of the devil

One of the things I like about my shed is to get away from the wife's b..dy radio. Why on earth do people feel the need to have endless racket going in the background with intermittent twaddle spoken every so often. My wife will be in one room with the radio in another. She cannot possible hear, properly, what is being transmitted, but insists on having it on.

It is like the TV. Sometimes we will scroll through the menu & there is nothing of interest. My immediate move is to turn it off. She then moans & turns it on. But "why" i say. "Well we have to have something"- "No!! we don't"

As I write this she has just got up. What has she done? turned the radio on to be told by some twat that there is " the rythm of the night" ( whatever that is) &  a traffic jam on the A13– but we are not going anywhere today so who cares  !!!!

 

Edited By Sam Longley 1 on 14/10/2018 08:29:16

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Posted by Bazyle on 13/10/2018 23:44:07:

Despite the 2 days of howling gales the nearby small wind generator set up by the local school I suppose for 'greenery' education has been steadfastly idle.

Better ones have an automatic brake to stop them overspeeding.

Neil

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

Will be going for a walk (cricket club fundraiser) this afternoon and from the top of the hill we will count the working ones and idle ones. Apparently too much electricity around in this wind !

Sam, I'm like your wife. Always have something on from getting up to bedtime, but at work I can totally 'zone out' the chatter in the open plan office. Silence is unnerving.

[Sam Longley 1Participant @samlongley1]

Posted by Bazyle on 14/10/2018 11:19:42:

Sam, I'm like your wife. Always have something on from getting up to bedtime, but at work I can totally 'zone out' the chatter in the open plan office. Silence is unnerving.

But, I bet if I asked you what the DJ had said 50 seconds earlier you possibly could not remember. Likewise if I asked you what the last but one record was you would not know. In other words you were not listening to it. You were ( possibly, I do not know about you in particular) just hearing a warbling sound in your ears. Sometimes a song that you might like triggers ones hearing senses for a minute or two but then one switches off. In many cases it is just useless rubbish. So it begs the question WHY????

When I did work in an open plan office I dd zone into some chatter because in a "team" one needed to know what was going on around one. Apart from that a bit of banter added to the atmosphere. But that was more relevant to one's interest at the particular moment.

Edited By Sam Longley 1 on 14/10/2018 11:44:06

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

Why – I guess it is company as I'm alone but unlike a wife whose utterances require attention and an answer the radio makes no demands so is stress free and can be ignored without danger. The banal comments of the DJ and adverts can be annoying but make me feel connected to the world. I rarely put on a record/cd just to listen to the music itself.

[Mick B1Participant @mickb1]

More pipe unions for airpumps – I think for the Polish tank engine or the US S160 locos. Somebody's busted the worm drive on the divvy head for the Bridgeport clone, so I had to cut the hexes using the location pin only, but it worked OK. They're threaded 3/8" BSPP.

[Colin HeseltineParticipant @colinheseltine48622]

Yesterday went with friend of mine to assist him with delivery of a Myford Super7 he had sold to a buyer in Sheffield.

Lovely wet day to load onto and tie down on trailer, lovely wet drive up the A38 and M1, nice and wet to unload on a sloping wet road then get up a rough concrete path into garage.

All went well, didn't drop it, no injuries and buyer very happy. Engine cranes, pallet trucks and chain hoists all came into their own.

Now got Midland Show to look forward to on Thursday

Colin

[Mark RandParticipant @markrand96270]

Making the second of a pair of Polly-V pulleys to replace the worn ones in the Beaver milling machine. 'Twould be far more effecient to start with castings, but the foundry isn't finished and I had a large lump of ally. In order to avoid more burns all over my arms and head, I've been using improvised chip guards. The photo is posed, due to the need to use a hand to drive the phone/camera, but the setup works very well. Catches 95-98% of the chips into the chip tray, rather than on me or the floor. I'm now on my third black plastic bin bag of chips .

[Mark RandParticipant @markrand96270]

We has pulleys! .

The original A section V belt ones, with back gear, give 80 to 3,000 rpm in eight steps. The new 5 groove J section Poly-V ones should give 90 to 4,300 in ten steps. I'd originally calculated that a 5 groove belt would be the right size, but I chickened out and went one size larger. The new ones are the same height and maximum diameter as the old ones, so they should fit easily.

The original pulleys are severely worn, apart from having broken sides. The new ones should make belt changing much less of a hassle because the grooves and belt are so shallow.

Now I can start making a replacement hollow splined shaft for the spindle drive.

 

Edited By Mark Rand on 17/10/2018 16:16:08

[JC54Participant @jc54]

What have I been doing today? Jobs around the house for "HER THAT MUST BE OBEYED" As I have managed to get transport to Midland Exhibition on Friday? Earn the Brownie points whilst you can

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