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Hi All I was in Tesco's car park loading up the old push bike with supplies at 5.19 pm this evening and heard the drone of a multi engined aircraft in the distance.As the aircraft got nearer and louder it resolved into the unmistakable sound of four synchronized Rolls Royce Merlins sweet music...

Hi All Yesterday was father's day and an event was put on at the Marshalls Yard shopping centre (formerly Marshalls works) here in Gainsborough in the form of a display of Marshall tractors and I went along to have a look and took my camera along to take some pictures. Strange as it is the...

Hi All I went to a car boot sale at nearby Torksey with a mate had a good look round and this followed me home although it was not from a skip dive I had to “PAY” good money for it in the line of £5 that very near broke my heart. As you can see it is quite a substantial blower I think it’s...

Hi All I have got a German Rohm keyless chuck with a drill stuck in it and the chuck has the arrow markings Auf and Zu on it from what i can guess this means open and close in German so will someone please get me out of my misery as i do for the like of me know which way is which . Cheers Paul

Happy New Year To All Hi once again first post of the new year and all that stuff i have just been digging my way to the back of my storage shed and dug out this bit of sheet metal some say it was stainless steel but i always had a thought it was something very different so i took a note of...

Hi All Here in the Uk we have a saying "Once In A Blue Moon" meaning an event that happens quite rarely well tonights the night. A so called blue moon occurs when we have two full moons in one month and tonights full moon is even rarer as there is also a partial eclipse of the moon. I will take...

Hi All I am thinking about putting a leadscrew handle on my BV20 lathe to help me bore something that is fixed on an angle plate on the cross slide as the saddle rack and pinion is much too coarse for this purpose. Although i have an idea about how to do this i think it is a case of the more the...

Hi All just thought i would tell you about a bit of kit i recently acquired it is a Smiths Venture mechanical tachometer pretty old the back of it is engraved drawing office November 1953 so it is at least that old it still works OK the only bit missing is the extension spindle and that does...

I just thought i would mention something that happened to me the other day.I was working on my lathe stopped the spindle took a job out of the chuck put another in hit the start button and just about had a heart attack! there was a loud bang and a puff of smoke from the vicinity of the motor i...

Hi Gang I was just wondering if there are any other members who will admit to being a radio ham! just thought i would mention it as i have been a radio ham for the last 28 years and have done a fair bit of constructing radio bits and pieces in that time i guess a lot of us have more than one...

Hi Gang If you have seen my previous posts you will know i suffer from an incurable affliction "PAKRAT SYNDROME" anyhow i was told about this lying neglected at the back of a dark damp garage and destined for the scrapman so went to look at it made Friends with it and it followed me home...

Hi Gang can you please tell me how to put pictures in my posts i know this probably has been covered before but i am lost on how to do it.I have opened a photobucket account an uploaded a few pictures there but where do i go from there. So will someone please tell me how. Cheers Paul

Hi Gang I am going to ask a silly question that being i have decided to construct a simple centre tube low pessure pot boiler ( thanks for the inspiration firebird ) on similar lines to the one that is well descibed on this forum. the question being i had a dive under the bench and dipped in the...

Hi guys just joined the group and thought it was time i introduced my self my name is Paul i live in the little market town of Gainsborough Lincolnshire central UK.I have been involved with machining off and on for about 40 years i did my training with Marshall sons & co here in Gainsborough all...