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Hi Bosworth, Welcome to the forum from Lutterworth, but I've been retired for a bit longer:) TerryD

Hi jason, I quite agree and use these on my Stuart models which I'm refurbishing and building, i just didn't want to confuse the matters more as these are quite specialised applications, but yes, I do use them. Regards TerryD

Hi Wazrus, I'm with you all the way on your comments, National Pride often gets in teh way when discussing 'quality'. I buy tools from Aliexpress and Bangood as well as some British suppliers (here in the UK Tracy tools are a very competitive suppliers of just about any top or die imaginable)...

Hi again Razzle, We are "two nations divided by a common language" so opined George Bernard Shaw. If you are buying 'Imperial' you will be buying tools with Whitworth thread forms on the whole. The common ones were BSW (British Standard Whitworth - coarse), BS Fine (Whitworth Thread form as...

Hi Razzle, I use M.E. (Model Engineers) UNF, Metric and BA. However my go to standard is Metric, both fine and coarse. Screws are generally available from around 1.2 mm up to as large as you need. The tooling and hardware are very easy to get over the internet even if you have to use eBay...

Hi Razzle, It's a moot point but the'Imperial ' system is not that used in the US. Over there it is, I believe classified as 'American Standard'. There are some differences between the two, so best not to get confused. There are measures, especially in volumetric measurement that are...

Hi Greentwin, It's rather a stretch of the imagination to call that a 'car' it's essentially a motorised tricycle whose descendants are stilll with us today: OK it's a bit more advanced, but so are 'real' cars. The one here can carry three - driver and two passengers. A good friend of mine...

Hi Bob, just to point out that far more birds and animals are killed by traditional power stations and pollution than by the turbines. Also there are a huge number of birds killed by flying into all glass tall buildings, plus if climate change IS really happening (I'm not saying it is, just...

Hi Richard, Please don't take this the wrong was but I'm sorry to rain on your parade as many of your statements here are quite wrong. For example people do not 'die out' because of inability to eat butter. In fact approximately 65% of the world population are lactose intolerant after...

Hi Gordon I made mine by using ball ended milling cutters of various sizes using my milling machine and a rotary table. The disc for the wheel was mounted vertically below the cutter and several incremental cutsa were taken until I reached the required depth. As this was a one off situation...

Very sad news both he and sorely missed John stevenson helped me with advice and encouragement. RIP Both TerryD

Hi Norman, bit of an exaggeration there. The population of France is a bit less than the UK (65Million) and I know for a fact that they're not all farmers;) Stay safe, TerryD

Hi Mark, I have plenty of 'lard' these days, can't use it but would like to get rid of it ;) As for rubber gloves I just use Baby powder or any old talcum powder if I can get it, works like a treat and keeps me smelling nice which the wife likes so it's a win-win, By the way I served my...

Hi mRA, As I said in an earlier posting we used to use whale oil in a large tank as a quench when hardening and tempering in the toolroom where I worked in the '60s and '70s. When hardening the steel was obviously red hot but there was very little smoke or smell (as far as I can remember) when...

Hi, When I worked with the industrial electricians as part of my apprenticeship we used tallow as a threading lubricant for use on metal conduit tubing. It was basically a rendered animal fat traditionally beef or mutton but also pork and other animal fats were used. It was the consistency of...

hi, Boxford (South bend clone) TerryD

Hi, I answered how that might cause a problem in an earlier posting, it depends on how he determined the position of the 'pockets' and how deeply they are drilled obviously the manufacturersdecided that they were not needed. Just for your interest here is a traditional gib key without...

Hi, there's an interesting app here, it has been developed by a Boxford (UK) / Southbend (US) user but suits most lathes, metric and Imperial with or without Norton gearbox. It's worth a look even just for comparison of your results, http://www.herosteamengine.com/RideTheGearTrain/ Stay safe...

Hi Round ended grub screws will cause very little damage and if they do you are tightening them up too much, they should only be tight enough to prevent play in the slideways. Besides, it is not a great deal to 'stone out' a few marks from an experimental test. Note the word 'experimental'...

Hi, There are also many lathes and machines that do not have those screw indentations and they work perfectly. The gib key should not be pushed upwards as it is a parallelogran in section not tapered section. The indentations in gib keys are mostly there to prevent the gib key slipping in...