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    Looking for a old light bulb

    I live in Bradford West Yorks UK. One trick I have found is that whenever an attempt is made by the authorities to 'outlaw' something the local Pakistani stores will buy up clearance stocks of the old items. Plenty of local Pakistani run D-I-Y stores stock wide ranges of incandescent bulbs in...
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    DRO on my YAM Lathe

    The directions are in chinglish and are sadly missing some essential information as usual with Chinese made items. These lathes are made in Taiwan not the Corona-virus Republic of China !
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    Home-made collet chuck and collets - some Q's

    Your correct about the reliability of generators, lawn movers etc with Honda engines but Honda is a Japanese Company not Chinese.
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    What is 282 grade steel ?

    Martin thanks for your reply. Your refer (via Google) to Haynes - can you give me the full title of the 'Haynes' book you are quoting from as it sounds a very useful reference. Norman sorry for your bad experience in Bradford. Was it at Interchange or Forster Square.
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    What is 282 grade steel ?

    Twice been offered 282 grade steel ? What is it ?
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    Stroboscopic Tachometer app for iPhones - Great for finding RPM’s of your spindle

    Jenny I read this topic with interest until I realised you were talking about iOS apps. My phone is one of those horrible evil Huawei P20 Lite (the nickname for it at work is the 'Chinese Secret Agent phone' !). It runs on Android. I looked in the Android Play Store and after several false...
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    Camshaft Design

    You say 'If I get that far, the exhaust manifolds will probably just be 3D printed. Thanks again for the assistance. ' Does the technical college you are, apparently, doing your course at have a 3D metal printing machine complete with a sintering furnace. The fact is, if you make a working...
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    1/5 scale Bristol Centaurus

    If you are actually planning to fire up this engine then I would be worried about your previous comments re cutting cooling fins with a very fine passage between them (your post of Mar 23 2017 refers to this - to remind you over two years later !). With a small passageway between the fins...
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    Alibre offering an inexpensive version of their MCAD program, Atom3D

    Model Engineer's Workshop also has a very interesting forum giving great support to anyone using Alibre Atom3D. Alibre also has a very friendly forum. Finally if you log onto Bob Warfield's site https://www.cnccookbook.com/ he also has a 6 month free trial of Atom 3D HTH
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