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Beautiful Ramon....works of art!! Looking forward to your next project!!!! cheers Bill Pudney

Rather than building a special non magnetic edge finder out of some unobtainium, why not go to your local friendly electronics shop and ask for a demagnetiser. Up here in 'Straya there's an electronics company called Jaynar, I noticed one in their catalogue for all of $6 and some cents, it was a...

Sorry, this is the picture I mean't to add. cheers bp

My post is 35mm diameter, and its mounted on the compound slide. It was intended to reduce any overhang as much as possible. The part off blade comes from LMS and is by A. R. Warner, I use the 1/32" and 1/16" blades an they work very well. I've attached some more photos. cheers bp

Hi Jan, When I made my QCTP more or less to the same design as yours, I turned the parting blade upside down, and part off with the spindle in reverse....magic!! No more parting off probs. cheers Bill Pudney

I'm another one looking forward to this Ramon. Thoroughly enjoyed and admired both your ED Racer and especially the ETA!! Chair pulled up and at the ready!! cheers Bill Pudney

Yep its part of the stress relieving process, in the "T" part of the specification there can be several numbers, e.g. 6061 T651 the first 4 numbers (6061) relate to the alloy and its constituents (2 buckets of sand one of cement etc), the numbers after the "T" indicate the Temper of the...

Nice project. A friend of mine, who has moved to the Great Workshop in The Sky was an Armourer in the British Army when Stens were a current weapon. He looked on them with disdain, saying ".....they did more harm to us than to them.....". However he would go on for hours about what a beautiful...

I use ER32 collets on both my Sieg C3 lathe and Sieg X2 mill. They hold material in the lathe and cutters in the mill. Both are fine, run true etc etc. There are gazillions of places in the colonies that sell ER32 collet chucks and collets, LMS, Maritool, etc. cheers Merry Christmas Bill Pudney

Tel wrote..."Draughtsmen? The blokes that forget to shut the door behind 'em!" Hey come on, its taken me 30 years to get used to spelling "draughtsman" (the way I was taught) as "draftsman" (the spelling in my adopted country), now you're just getting me confused!! cheers bp

Australia is a funny place, I've been here for over 30 years and it still surprises me sometimes. One of the early surprises happened way back in the early 1980's; I applied for a job as a Draftsman with the Aust Government. Having been previously employed by the UK Gov. as a Senior Design...

If you go to the Little Machine Shop website, they have a changegear calculator, try here....... http://littlemachineshop.com/Reference/change_gears.php all the best!! Bill Pudney

Just to throw another slant on the discussion, by the way I agree pretty much with most of what has been said. However, when I was a draftsman we had to prepare drawings to be used by anybody, our workshop or any subcontractor for instance. So we were specifically prohibited to put such things...

Speaking as someone who spent the first half (so far!) of his life in Southern England, is married to a coal miners daughter from near Hartlepool (North East) and now lives in South Australia this is a good thread. When I was growing up we used to abbreviate "afternoon" to "afty" The current...

Beautiful machines. A friend of mine has three of these machines bought new at A$27000 EACH!! He uses them in his business and makes a lot of money doing so, mind you he is a truly great "handle twirler" Once again a luverly machine. cheers Bill Pudney