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Well it has happened- or well? sort of:) So I found that for only £15 that I could get THREE diffrent sizes of boring tools with a 90 degree and a 45 degree square tool bit holder at the ends. With a little bit of alteration each would fit my boring tool holder which fits the 4 way Myford...

Peter What about an advert om Home Workshop.co. UJK?. It is the advert site of the son of the late John Stevenson MBE ? Moror Bike Engineer_ I answered a weird ad for information on a bloke's compass and inclinometer which probably used by the Royal Observer Corps when the South Coast radar...

Many thanks I hope my reply is Coherent:confused: Keep going Norman

Hi BaronB Thanks for the jolt. The Multi position Saddle stop HK1840 from Hemingwaykits is here and I'm trying to make the additional is slowly being attempted. Oh dear. the precision with this alnost non existent eyesight:confused: If I manage , I will have 6 position stops on the Myford...

Peter Thank you for clarfying things for my aged brain Best Wishes in your quest norman

Peter Frankly, I can't see your reasoning as you have the castings and seem to want the drawings. My thoughts are that there is very little work to make the ????????? THTREE bits of the vice. Perhaps, I am missing something- or perhaps the WHOLE story is yet to be told:) There's a...

When I was a lad EVERY apprentice fitter in the UK made one as one of his tasks. I recall picking up raw, part finished or poorly completely made vices at the local college. I picked them up and threw them back as worthless scrap. I did recall pickimg up about 90% of a poor set of the...

I have a cpntainer full of dental amalgum of silver and mercury whilst my(late)mm wife's fillings wpuld not assay becaisr the gold from extracted diseased reet has planinum as a hardener. It will not assay And shades of Gas Chmvers and ZykomeB:(

My little glass jam jar which contains lard oil to be far too small for all that lot:p

Jokes apart, Citren produced almost 4 MILLION Deau Chevaux. Despite the last one produced( in Portugal), they in 1990 are still being 'restored and restored' with galvanised chassis and almost all spares. My neighbour- a Syrian architect recalled that his mother had and adored hers 40 years...

I've spent the morning in a Citroen Deux Chevaux which my son is treating as a Boys Toy. Goes with his Lotus Elise SE Grandson at 11 is having his first driving less. Castor oill? The Mad Rich offring has just topped up the 80 Million Frenh Farmers can't be wrong thing's suspension with...

I'm having an eduxated guess for Hellerine and suspect that it is not far off 19 parts of castor pil to one of ethanol. So for us oldies, it is mainly castor oil which was used in WW1 aircraft egines and gave the aces of old 'Montezuma's Revenge:mad: Then for old motor bikes Lord Wakefield...

You can buy 250 gram blocks of lard in most supermarkets ! But even better, you can buy Purifird lard oil by the 5 litres

So you are unable bore a hole smaller than 'under 3mm'? I lost my stuff in a wintr's storm that woukkd drill perhaps 1.5mm. My problem is worsening macular degeneration- as mentioned earlier. Currently, I'm trying again to read and then make 'small' tools from George Thomas's Model...

So moving a little, what about the other boring subject-- bore-ing?

I've just taken delivery of another bottle of Monkey Shoulder. ;) Slange va Norman

Maybe the U Tube of the Potts Milling Spindle might prompt firther thoughts. Actually, it also covers grinding too. I have a similar version but without the grinder. Might I suggest that you Google the Englisg web site lathes Co.UK to see the variations. Whilst you are on thesite, it is...

Wrong:) The saddle on my Myford has whilst i.e. at the numbers 1 and no 4 shear my arguably more modern SiegC4 has gibs under the daddle against the prismatic shears. Oh, dear-- tat, tat Norman

Where there should be a 'dimple' on my Myford-- there isn't. It acts as a lock.

Deleted as no response from poster Best Wishes Norman