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Short answer, yes. Be interesting to see what the duty cycle of this one is before you jump. John S.

I have two of the commercial ones, one is loaded for centre, tapping drill tap in M4 then same in M6 Second one has M5 and M8. I have done it this way as there is a big visible difference in the sizes, putting M4 and M5 together is inviting mistakes. Certainly speeded things up for me. John S.

About £255 pounds Uk worth. http://www.directplasticsonline.co.uk/TufnolSheet/Whale/30mm/ John S.

No it's absolute crap, you would be better off with a BIC lighter. John S.

Ironically the wax stuff we call candle wax, ;D John S.

I make my own and have done for years. 75% paraffin [ or kerosene in the US ] and 25% ATF or simple hydraulic oil. Seems to work better. Just as an aside the UK version of WD40 is not the same as the US version, look at the spec sheets. The US version has been downgraded, tree huggers ? Tort...

I used to be into heavy metal but with the current price of scrap I can't afford it.......... John S.

George, Nice work, just a suggestion but if you can't make a long broach and I can understand this why not split the broaching into using two tools so reduce the load. I see in the next to last pic that you have already lost a tooth on the final row. In the last pic it looks like the internal...

The problem is finding a milling cutter with the correct diameter as the button. An alternative would be to use a boring head and then it could be dialled in to any size needed. John S.

Skew gears and spiral bevels are the bevel equivalent of helical gears instead of spur gears. With spur gears the load is taken by one tooth and passes onto the next, in a good design the following tooth takes over the torque before the first tooth lets go, with a helical gear the process is...

They probably removed them out the security camera's before they pinched the lathe. Have you checked on Police 5 lately ? John S.

Yup you are right. It's a crap paint job, hardly worth playing with .. John S.

They might even say what label ? ??? John S.

http://www.stevenson-engineers.co.uk/files/Trustee%20from%20the%20Toolroom%20v1.1.txt John S.

Do a search on Scammell Coffee Pot. http://freespace.virgin.net/scammell.man/index2.htm They used the same idea, there was a massive chain inside the rocking beam. Click on History and Film Clips. John S.

When registering for a forum some information like user name, email etc is mandatory. Why not make the sign up form have the location the same. We run a free advert site for model engineers. On this site we make it compulsory that the first part of the post code is entered. It's enough to give...

1/16", the pins are oversize. John S.

Unfounded rumour Marv, been the length and breath of the country and never found it yet [ or could that be never WANT to find it ?? ] John S.

I know you are usng EMC but why not download the demo copy of mach, use the wizard to generate the code and copy paste it into EMC ? John S.

More to the point, can you get BBC 2 on it ? John DVD went in the post today. John S.