What did you do Today 2018

[Howard LewisParticipant @howardlewis46836]

Get well, all of you! But enjoy the rest to catch up reading and gaining inspiration for the next project

For the others, with "The old lady who swallowed a Fly" syndrome, remember one job ALWAYS spawns at least three others. (And that does not include sharpening the blunt drill that you choose to use, BEFORE you break it)

The bolt shears off flush, the drill wanders off, before breaking, and then you have to make a bush to repair the casting where the bolt broke; AFTER you have removed the piece of broken drill, and so on!

It's Newton's Fourth Law, The Eternal Cussedness of Things, sometimes attributed to Sod.

Howard

[LimpetParticipant @limpet]

Hope you both get well soon.

[MikeParticipant @mike89748]

Thanks for your good wishes. Don't feel too bad this morning, fingers crossed!

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Posted by Mike on 03/02/2018 09:28:44:

Thanks for your good wishes. Don't feel too bad this morning, fingers crossed!

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Good to hear that

MichaelG.

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

Re wood holes and boxes in workshop. I suggest rubbing with candle wax, or even painting on hot wax if you don't mind the risk of staining.

I just got back from a nice trip to the bank to pay in lots of money but it wasn't mine but it was lots of club subs . Come on the rest of you – pay up. Our membership is sync'ed to the year not the anniversary of joining so easier to track. By the way don't staple your cheques to a form. The machine won't accept the uneven corner even after taking the damn staple out.

[Gordon WParticipant @gordonw]

Must be the week for falling over in the bathroom- not me but my wife. I was up in the loft fixing a broken pipe, went into w/shop to solder new bits and heard a crash. Wife on floor in bathroom, blood all over. Turns out no real harm done, bad cut on scalp and bruising. Had to drive about ,cos docters etc.a bit short supply round here. ended up in the Broch for gluing together the wounds. Mike will know what I mean. Turns out she was up the ladder checking on what I was doing- a lesson learnt I hope.

[MikeParticipant @mike89748]

Hi Gordon. Yes, I know the Broch, but did you mean gluing together literally? I ask because after a previous argument I had with gravity, four years ago, a cut on my face was stuck together with superglue – presumably a special grade for first aid use. Result was, it healed without scarring. Dammit, I couldn't claim it was a duelling scar! Do welcome your wife to the "falling over" club, and wish her well.

[robjon44Participant @robjon44]

Hi all, if I may here is my fourpennorth on cracked ribs, it is my unsubstantiated opinion that muscles surrounding the injury need something to push against so they push against the very last place that needs any more gyp, a tried & tested (by me) remedy is to wrap a broad scarf around your rib cage & tie it off, this in an emergency, later a snug fitting crepe or elastic bandage is the order of the day, accidents, barrack room horseplay or a playful nudge in the ribs from a ball ended motorcycle handlebar end lever have all responded favourably to this quick fix.

Bob.

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

So far to day the main event has been drilling a 75mm chunk of 76mm diameter aluminium alloy 10mm then 3/4". Well worth having a few morse taper shank drills handy!

I have to open it up the 57mm, then a lot of milling on the outside.

I have a metre high waste bin that's about 1/3 full of aluminium swarf, but I reckon it will be full soon!

[garyParticipant @gary44937]

the broch = fraseburgh = puddlestinker haha

[Gordon WParticipant @gordonw]

Yes, literally glued. I asked her afterwards what glue and what, if any, hardener but she had not noticed and did not seem very interested. Today the silencer fell of my car. Think I will go to bed 'til March.

[MikeParticipant @mike89748]

I know how you feel, Gordon, but if public transport in your village is the is the same as in our area- and we are not that far apart – then a car is an absolute necessity. Mine's just cost me £546 for new discs and pads all round, or it wouldn't have passed its MOT later this year. In the old days they used to re-grind discs, but not any more, it seems. I recorded the rugby this afternoon, and I'm just off to watch it. Am I going to be ecstatic or disappointed? Regarding the glue, why don't women notice these things?

[MuzzerParticipant @muzzer]

Posted by Mike on 03/02/2018 18:19:00:

I recorded the rugby this afternoon, and I'm just off to watch it. Am I going to be ecstatic or disappointed?

Huh, depends who you are supporting. Let's just say I'm about to put away the dusty kilt for another year….

Murray

[EmgeeParticipant @emgee]

Bored for and threaded M71x1.0mm thread as one end of an adapter to M42x0.75mm, the M42 external thread was already completed and the spigot bored 38mm diameter.

Emgee

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[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

Ouch, over 60% of that billet has gone into the bin

The CCGT tips give an outstanding finish on the 6082 at a low feedrate.

Now a 76mm tube with 9.5mm walls with a bit of flange at each end.

Parted off using power feed and a MT parting tool. Must get some GT parting tips as it's nerve wracking relying on a brush to keep coolant down such a narrow deep groove. Without it if an aluminium edge build up starts it can get very big very quickly.

I still have to mill various holes in it.

Neil

[ChrisHParticipant @chrish]

Rant for today.

Was reading another thread about water gauges, that Neil had posted a comment on which he mentioned MPa a few times, and I realised I didn't have a clue about what he was talking about. Reason, I cannot visualised what a MPa looks like. Looked it up on the internet and found a Magapasel is 1000000 newton/square metres. Which then produced another unknown – I have no idea what a newton looks like, never mind 1000000 newtons/sq.m.

OK, so I am old school who grew up, was trained and educated, and subsequently worked in the days of lbs/sq.in pressure and lb/ft force. But I know what a lb looks like, be it potatoes or sugar or whatever or metal weight. And I know what a sq.in looks like and what a foot looks like, and can visualise a 1lb weight acting on 1sq.in or on the end of a rod of 1foot length. Ditto with kg/sq.cm for those who think I am just anti metric which I am not . But what does a newton look like? Who sells stuff by the newton? Someone describe what a newton of spuds or sugar looks like to me. You can't because no-one outside a lab deals with them, they deal with weights of lbs and ounces or kg and grammes. (cue millions of posts by folk who claim they deal in newtons every day!). It is all very well for clever folk heavily into scientific metric units talking about newtons/ sq.m or megapascals, but they are meaningless unless one can visualise what one is talking about.

So why on earth don't we all talk in terms of units we can all understand and visualise? Or has the nanny state taken over completely and we cannot think for ourselves? I thought the latter only applied to the snowflake brigade.

I work in feet and inches and thousands of an inch, and in meters and millimetres and so on, and in lbs and in kgs, – properly ambidextrous! -all as required, but I can not and will not work or talk in units that mean nothing to me, or to anyone that I can see, outside a science lab.

Sorry Neil, this is definitely NOT a rant about you at all, just using your post as a jumping off point, but about the stupid situation we are being driven into these days it seems. Or perhaps I am getting too old and set in my ways!

So endth the rant for today!

Chris

 

Edited By ChrisH on 03/02/2018 22:26:24

[RobboParticipant @robbo]

Posted by robjon44 on 03/02/2018 12:47:57:

Hi all, if I may here is my fourpennorth on cracked ribs, it is my unsubstantiated opinion that muscles surrounding the injury need something to push against so they push against the very last place that needs any more gyp, a tried & tested (by me) remedy is to wrap a broad scarf around your rib cage & tie it off, this in an emergency, later a snug fitting crepe or elastic bandage is the order of the day, accidents, barrack room horseplay or a playful nudge in the ribs from a ball ended motorcycle handlebar end lever have all responded favourably to this quick fix.

Bob.

Many many years ago our rugby team hooker, a mad Scotsman, "swung" too low (other hookers will know what this means) and got a couple of cracked ribs for his efforts. The next week he turned up wearing his wife's roll-on corset as a support. (He left the suspenders on and wore it upside down).

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Posted by ChrisH on 03/02/2018 22:24:00:

But what does a newton look like? Who sells stuff by the newton? Someone describe what a newton of spuds or sugar looks like to me.

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That's the easy one, Chris

A newton is approximately 0.225 pounds force

Therefore, to a reasonable approximation, it is the force exerted [in Earth's gravity] by the weight of a typical [small] Apple.

The clue is in the name

MichaelG.

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 04/02/2018 00:29:02

[Mark RandParticipant @markrand96270]

Also, a megaPascal is 10 bars AKA approx 10 atmospheres AKA approx 145psi.

Simples…

[Brian HParticipant @brianh50089]

I'll stick with lbs, oz, feet and inches.

Brian

[MikeParticipant @mike89748]

Well said, Brian. Me too.!

[richardandtracyParticipant @richardandtracy]

An MPa is a Newton/mm^2. Most stress engineers work in N/mm^2 rather than MPa because the numbers are too big.

There are 144.9885 psi in every N/mm^2

Standard 'grade 43' structural steel, S275, yields at 275 N/mm^2.

Anyway, some of those mental hooks may be useful.

Regards

Richard.

[robjon44Participant @robjon44]

Hi all, glad to see that some of our learned colleagues can enlighten us on the values of some of the metric measurements that have crept into our daily lives, perhaps one of them can tell us the exact value of the term "load" in the collective noun "a load of testicles".

Bob.

[roy entwistleParticipant @royentwistle24699]

Lbs, Pints and Furlongs for me too

Roy ( I can work in millipedes as well )

Edited By roy entwistle on 04/02/2018 10:02:55

[pa4c pa4cParticipant @pa4cpa4c85075]

perhaps one of them can tell us the exact value of the term "load" in the collective noun "a load of testicles".

Well, that isnt straightforward either. Is this a single load or a double load? Bearing in mind my old pal Brian had three testicles, there is always a variable.

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