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You are wrong- sorry but playing about in a little workshop is NOT the real world. The REAL world is - and always has been a horrid place. This is why part of my family went to Orange and then to Tumba Rumba in search of a better world. Uncle Harold went out because there was no job when he...

My copy of Connoly's Machinery Tool Reconditioning is almost 600 pages. You have done well;) Well done Norman

I'm sorry but I keep on repeating that 'a litt;e learning is a dangerous thing' and in my workskshop- which isn't more than a little wooden shed- I have a plethora( a lot) of machines with all sorts of gib assortments. My mill drill- Cheap and Chinese has tapered gibs whilst my home made...

I would recommend that you leave well, alone!

Apologies but if your gradmother was 12 in 1902, she was born in 1890. Maybe , I',having a 'snior moment' I used to treadle my mother's( b.1897) Jone's sewing machine. I also recall a Dakota -DC3 flying int RAF Hendon at weekend ends-- with a registration PH-PBA;) but in 1949

Yes but MY simple little home workshop can act as a horizontal mill and come to think about it, my rotary pivoted vertical slide also is capable of dividing too. You see I saw the limitations of present knowledge- which can be woefully sparse. I have no wish to be rude or offensive- but with...

Terry, my thanks for your interest and valued comments Best wishes Norman

I hope that you get an Improvement Cheers norman

Between my two lathes, there is chalk and cheese in construction of the gibs. Neither is perfect and even the Myford Super7 with gear box and power cross feed. Ideally, the gibs should FILL the Void and be pinned through the gib itself to prevent the gib moving. You will see that in writing...

Inevitably, there will be an accident or two and whilst the pharmaceutical industry and its shareholders will reap the rewards from their foresight. I vaguely recall my school days but what little remains sufficed to learn about 'Wise and foolish virgins'. having alternative jobs like St Paul...

Some clarity seems merited on 'carbide' and 'titanium'' Both words bear no clear meaning - maven in English. Cardide means - inn engineering a flammable gas whilst titanium is the replac ement to white lead Thank You for your expexpected rudition:mad:

Just to be a little different, I used to grind a half just behind your D bit end= to take small amounts of swarf-- after pecking from the tailstock poppet. No criticism, merely a bit 'doing it my way':) So thank you- and continued best wishes for the demonstrations Norman

Thanks Dubi for the succinct but nevertheless wise words. As I have repeated so many tomes, it is a hobby and we can only make it a continued success by exercising harmony. There os nothing to be gained from behaving otherwise. So thank you for your courteous understanding. My best wishes and...

Well, today I took delivery of:- a set of round drill bits a couple of boxes of metri drills to cover 1 to 10mm in 0.1 intervals( dear) a set of stub drills- imperial a scribing block for marking work Then I have just had a phone call to either lend or sell me a Black and Decker 43000...

But you see that you really need to use a controlled temperature water bath to get the best out of your Jo Blocks. :) Well, surprise, surprise but tou do. It's a bit like checking viscosities using a a PRS Viscometer or a perhaps Number 4 Ford cup. Again, I DO know Statistical Quality...

Respecfully, I don't go for 'high tech\ stuff but I do gp for elegant solutions. There is a lot of confusion about what is white simply 'widening a hole' and a respondent to my reply lierally doesn't know what the Hell trhat I was prsattling about. Years ago, I spent perhaps £30 on...

Guilty as charged, Me Lud-= Metric and Imperial and a 5 inch sine bar plus dial gauges etc in tenths of thous. Honest answer before the verdict is read? Forget it all, However, I would love to have a Facimt machine and a Double Slide Rule. Reason -- for the Hell of it - again.

Hello Sailor! Rude English ex[ression-- said he waving his wooden leg aloft:mad: On a more even keel( !!!!!), I have just ordered a rahr large order stub drills, metricated ones in 0.1mm and tool bits to ' part brass rags' with all and sundry. Boring though it is, Boeing is the thing...

Thank youc Why not make card or ply temp[[pkates for each MT size? Best Wishes Norman

Noted and comments appreciated but for the benefit of thers who are treading the same path, please tell us of your solution.:)