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Kludge
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Hi, folks,
I need to apologize for disappearing without notice.
As has been noted previously, I've got some problems that lead to falling into a "sit and star into nothingness" mode for hours on end separated by the occasional few minutes of actually doing something. Scattered around me are some/most of the parts for a couple of 3 "cylinder" electric engines, one Noelle-sized and one smaller, a few sketches of other engines (air and electric), a growing stack of parts for some compressors to drive the air engines, and a growing stack of wood and metal (brass) bits to make it all happen. "All" and "happen" have yet to be defined.
While searching for a 6-40 die, I found a gunsmithing site that has taps and dies for 4-40, 5-40, 6-40, 8-40, 1/8"-40 and 1/4"-40 threads the first four in a kit with other NF taps & dies. I may well buy this kit (or one like it that has drills & taps with the dies purchased separately) with the added taps & dies to complete the set and add it to my .6-2mm watchmaker's tap & die sets. Why? Because it fits my sense of humor.
Otherwise, nothing real is happening. I'm still thinking in terms of thin wall cylinders for compressed air & steam engines (brass tubing & ammo brasses), horridly inefficient but fun to watch mechanisms, horizontal flywheels to make engines fit flat rate boxes, and other mechanical oddities.
But nothing is being accomplished. I sit and I stare and I live in a world of "aware but unresponsive," as one doctor recently called it. Too many memories I don't want or need ... too many trips back to "those times" ... so much I desperately want to forget.
BEst regards,
Kludge, the wreck
I need to apologize for disappearing without notice.
As has been noted previously, I've got some problems that lead to falling into a "sit and star into nothingness" mode for hours on end separated by the occasional few minutes of actually doing something. Scattered around me are some/most of the parts for a couple of 3 "cylinder" electric engines, one Noelle-sized and one smaller, a few sketches of other engines (air and electric), a growing stack of parts for some compressors to drive the air engines, and a growing stack of wood and metal (brass) bits to make it all happen. "All" and "happen" have yet to be defined.
While searching for a 6-40 die, I found a gunsmithing site that has taps and dies for 4-40, 5-40, 6-40, 8-40, 1/8"-40 and 1/4"-40 threads the first four in a kit with other NF taps & dies. I may well buy this kit (or one like it that has drills & taps with the dies purchased separately) with the added taps & dies to complete the set and add it to my .6-2mm watchmaker's tap & die sets. Why? Because it fits my sense of humor.
Otherwise, nothing real is happening. I'm still thinking in terms of thin wall cylinders for compressed air & steam engines (brass tubing & ammo brasses), horridly inefficient but fun to watch mechanisms, horizontal flywheels to make engines fit flat rate boxes, and other mechanical oddities.
But nothing is being accomplished. I sit and I stare and I live in a world of "aware but unresponsive," as one doctor recently called it. Too many memories I don't want or need ... too many trips back to "those times" ... so much I desperately want to forget.
BEst regards,
Kludge, the wreck
