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Hi Chrsbrbnk, An interesting thought. Yes I suppose that IS possible but the chance of that is so negligible as to be zero in practice. Mars started losing it's amosphere around 4 billion years ago, give or take a few million according to research by NASA scientists and it took around 500...

Deflected, not 'reflected' - sorry. TerryD

Solar storms are nothing at all to do with global warming - which is a fact whether you like it or not. Solar storms are bursts of geomagnetic radiation which normally are reflected around the Earth by our own magnetic field - hence the North and South Borealis' caused by the interaction of the...

Hi, I don't necessarily think that an interesting thread should be closed, however I do agree about the politics. Rather than close the thread perhaps the moderators could delete some of the more overtly political diatribe if they have the ability so to do, if not I agree with you about...

Vulcanologists and scientists have ideed been studying this effect for many years and the conclusion accross teh scientific community is that they have a negligible effect on global worming. In fact the sulpuur the emit acutally ha a cooling effect. To Quote: "Carbon dioxide (CO2) has built...

Hi bluejets. Those exploding stars, even while in our galaxy are still billions upon billions of kilometres (one lightyear is about 5.8 trillion miles - 9.46 trillion km and our nearest star, Alph Centauri is 4 light years distant) away from our atmosphere whereas greenhouse gases and dust from...

Hi, Regarding use of batteries to link to solar panels for power storage for when the sun don't shine. I have solar panels and considerd the advantage when a friend explained that he had a 5kW battery installed in his system. last time I looked 7kW was about the maximum available - things may...

Hi Dazz, I atach a small pdf, part of a larger one, from Boxford on replacing headstock bearings and setting bearing preload. Horace Denford as you probably know founded Boxford when he moved his business to Box Tree mills, it was he who introduced the A, B, C and CSB models based on the...

Or if there is a taper present the bed may be twisted and need adjustment with shims. There is a lot of information on the internet on how to rectify it. I first experience this when starting in a toolroom in '65. If taper evident when parallel turning first check is indeed tailstock offset...

Hi Toby May I suggest a couple of lengths of a good hardwood, say 5" square section placed under the machine from side to side. at front and rear. These could be packed to achieve a reasonable level, and then bolted to the floor, the machine would then be bolted to those. The reason I suggest...

Hi Dazz, One needs to be careful laying a level across the bed of the lathe if it has triangular ways like the Boxford A,B or C etc (Southbend 5?) as the tops of the wayts at those points are not machined just lightly dressed as they are not bearing surfaces it is not worth the expense of...

Hi Tom, I don't know your lathe, dimensions, weight etc but my Boxford BUD which weighs aroung 270kg (approx. 600 pounds) plus tooling, chucks, steadies etc is not bolted down or accurately 'levelled' just shimmed to take out inaccuracy in the concrets floor. The latter i.e. levelling is not...

Are you aka Gerd Vanhaervere? TerryD

Hear Hear, I agree entirely after all we can have 12" to the foot models

I doubt that heating with mapp gas would provide sufficient heat/temperature to allow stainless steel tube to deform even that relatively small amount - It may work but I think that you are better off with your spacer idea, especially if you are working on the vehicle and possibly in a...

Hi, Not a difficult part to make. I could make a couple but am on the wrong side of the big waters of the Atlantic. I think that a better name for your part is a 'tapered spacer'. The use of the term wedge bring up all sorts of images. I can see several quite straightforward ways of making...

Great Idea - almost inspired - do you think that metal petaque balls would perform the same task as well?Heavy metal petanque boules are relatively inexpensive in France. TerryD k

Hi, I use kitchen roll to stuff in the centre hole and it works well in keeping swarf out. TerryD

Hi Chris, Good to hear from you and thanks for the offer, I'd love to visit the department at some future time so will be in touch. I serve my apprenticeship in mechanical engineering with a BMC company from '63 to '68, but studied software engineering at what is now the University of...

Hello Chris, from a Loughborough alumnus ('71 -'75)