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Help :eek: I have this small bent shaft petrol line trimmer/weed eater. It cuts like a champion with the trimmer horizontal. As soon as I turn it vertical to trim the lawn edges, it cuts for about 3ft then the line has disappeared into the feeder and the machine must be stopped, the line...

Hi Guys, For some time I have been less than happy about the change wheel combinations supplied with this lathe. In the handbook the change wheel chart is overpasted with an ammended version which is less than stellar. Yesterday I went through a long and labourious process to try and find the...

I have not built this..........YET...................... but it may be of interest as it is designed to use barstock. I hope you find it useful. Bob

Hi Guys, I have been playing around with this for a day or so and I think I have a workable/machinable mechanism. Best Regards Bob

Hi Guys, A while back some kind soul provided a link to a Model Engineer ??? software calculator which did all sorts of marvellous things including spring calculations. In moving to my new computer, said link has disappeared into cyberspace and a search of our forum has so far drawn a blank...

Hi Guys, I am moving between bouts of mourning through bouts of elation to bouts of learning. Mourning My old clunker running WindowsXP died on the weekend. This was a machine I built myself from carefully selected components, (the cheapest I could find), back in 2002. It ran almost non-stop...

They say idle minds atrophy so in a small way this is an attempt to slow the process down. I have had a go at a designing a Hit and Miss viz: I have posted the plans as a pdf in the downloads section. If anyone would like the original TCW, (turboCAD), file please email me and I will forward...

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Calling any and all TurboCAD users I need some a lot of help. I am drawing up some 3D house plans for a friend and whilst I have specified everything that I can find to make an interior door. There is no-where I can find how you change the way in which it opens, i.e. from left to right and from...

I keep threatening to build a boiler. :P Well I've started to design one. It's an 8" Dia Scotch boiler in Steel with copper tubes and a dry back. At this point I've left the firing options open to either a spirit, (blowlamp) or coal. Attached is an excel file covering the design...

Hi Guys, I spent most of today developing a solar path diagram for Adelaide. :o I found a paper from Cambridge University with all the formulae so I set to with a spreadsheet and then transferred the info to Cad. Best Regards Bob

Hi Guys, Just so you know...........I do know where my shop is :o Once a week it's supposed to be my model time. ;D However...................... Item 1. The dreaded mooring eyes. Item 2. Panic.....my ride on mower's cutting disk keeps hitting the ground, I have to mow the athletics oval...

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Help, I keep getting this message about flash plugin error and cannot upload any photos. Is it my computer or a problem with Photobucket ??? ??? ??? Best Regards Bob

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USA does it again. :bow: :bow: Best Regards Bob

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