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John I'm going on what is a Pelmanustic memory and may be wrong. it is in fond memory of a member of the local club- who made a highly developed Quorn, was alway broke and ran cars and repaired silencers with --- SILICOME SEALANT No, I have never tried it:) but from what I read can stand...

Ah Yes but 'interchangeability' has superceded all sorts of advice and strictures by - well people who are full of the 'exuberance of rgeir own verbosity' Myford collets will crack if used by commonly available undersize round steel stock. My set are ;bloody useless/ As for the Quorn and its...

Not accepted Norman

I can only apologise. I have macular degeeration and have now found that my computer was playing up. My sight is made worse by the need for very bright light. Sorry.

[Deketed Computer was playing up and I have major eye problems from macular degeration from extreme old age

Timo If you try to follow me on the metal cutting bandsaw discussion, you will realise that I have opened the Quorn parcels and the instruction book. As Chaddock- originally wrotte up very clearly. how to sharpen a multitude of tools you might do wors e that getting one of the MK3 sets of...

I've just rummaged throough a large £40's worth of new offcuts and found enough thick angle iron to replace the vise jaws on my metal cutting bandsaw. Amongst the other [ieces there is lots of lighter angle but slso a sizeable quanity of rectangular tubing- some of which is destined for...

The surprise is that the New Mk3 Quorn is recommending that the tool holder is an ER one. Mind you having read on the book of destructions, iy is recommended that an alignment tooth is added and that there is a tooth rest and it goes on to provide a facility so that the ends of the cutters are...

I Time on your hands? Foot saw and weary? Fathom that out;) Of course it is the 'Buy the Mark Twain\ Said he swinging the lead

Agreed but mathematically requites another iden tical diameter of disc:).

I suppose that I was just tall enough to see over the blacsmith's anvil. I watched intently, and more than 80 years later, I'm still learning. Yesterday, my son drove his 'Deux Chevaux which was designed in the Dark Ages to do a job that he hadn;t time to do--- and they asked where the pony...

Probably my minor proplem is to raid rge scrap bin and change the 'angle plates for higher and longer ones. Then fabricate a sort of Keats plate to securely hold the short round bar from 'wobbling and smashing the blade-- and worde.:mad: I am a quite completent welder and could MIG =up the...

Timo Thank you for your replies. Might I respectfully comment that that the Rotary table' video is not applicable. I have and have made numerous rotary tables and all that I expressed was where the technique for the eventual \workhead' on my old Quorn and rthe new Mk3- still as a...

Hi John( et al) Digressing somewhat, I have never found a saisfactory method of holding down those large, round sort endes of metal. Perhaps you or other readers might provide information thatI certainly do not posses. Expanding the topc, I am wanting to change the...

I agree with the us eful extension and added a long bolt at the rear to keep things parallrl ehen cutting short lenths. Very Low tech but it works

I bought a cheap( about £30 double. ended sander/6" grindstone probably from either Lidle or Aldi in the UK. By no means the best but adequate . A bit flimsy and underpowered but it does work. Whe I was in the supermarket, I bought supplies of belts with assorted grits. Next job for it is...

Years ago, I wanted a lathe alignment bar with a No2MT shank. I was orgaising a flight and car hire and a my villa in Menorca in the Baleares. He thought that he could do me a good turn by grinding doen a worn out reamer, Un fact, it cost him a compolete bug grinding wheel in grinding the flute...

I may appear rather churlish but I am 91 and yrddyerday, I was advised of another visit to hos[ital trgarding my lack of vision. Model engineering is simply a hobby. Well it is to me. I can't use a calera or a phone- which I've repeated umpteen times Best Wishes Norman The news broke this...

Rhetorically -- Yes:)

I have the 'old' Quorn and the deckel clone end to end and the front 'bed bars with the micrometer adjustment are almost identical and there are ALL these tentacles - which people call ball handles.;) THen, there ALL these graduuations upon graduations. Oh dear YES! Thinking about...