My Son got me a surface table 3ft X2ft made by Windle Bros Chelmsford yes they're bl++dy well heavy & yours is half as much more heavy than mine, mine was in my plant trailer so we winched it down the ramps but then had to lift it up3 ft into the barn!! we used 2 stout lengths of hardwood 8x3...
The "porrige" oats that you buy has been dried & to me it's pretty bland, I buy 10kg of oat groats at a time, I have a schnitzer German hand rolling mill, & I mill my own oats enough for a week & store it in the fridge in a plaggy tub it's oily & tastes excellent compared with stuff you buy...
If it's someones blade which is in a right state [like one I did for someone last week, think its been used as a cold chisel!!] I grind it on my disk sander to 25 degrees after first squaring it across then fine oilstone lubricated with diesel, then finish with an arkansas stone lubricated with...
Hi Jim,yes that's the same one that I have,afraid I've not got a manual for it, but I make a very shallow scarf angle about3/.8" -1/2" long so there's a good area of contact to silver braze,I then mix a liquid easyflow flux with a small dab of washing up liquid & coat the joints & put a piece...
I made a jig to silver braze my blades with a decent scarfed joint using a sievert blowtorch but at an autojumble I got a Wadkin Bursgreen bandsaw brazer, it's 240 volt with automatic paralell clamps & using scarfed joint just press it on for half a minute or so then click to anneal, clean up &...
Right there B S I've had the Donegan Optivisor for years with the no 4 lens & also the clip on optiloupe for really close work, & wouldn't be without it ,yes they're not cheap but they are excellent with no distortion like the cheapo's & lets face it once you've bought them they don't wear out...
Absolutely Right Keith, my 18 yrs in education [CDT] was mostly about design, I ran a lunchtime club for lads to build themselves a working steam engine & boiler & they loved it [me too] but they're not given the chance now & when exam results came out the head was overjoyed that so many could...
I cast with Mansfield Red Greensand which is damp but never wet, if it was wet it would explode with the molten metal, as you say oil based sand [ie petrobond being one of them] does not need any grinding as it's fine enough already, ,I remix greensand damp so never have safety problems.
The super7 is superior to the ml7, same capacity etc but the super 7 has better speeds & bearings [to cope with the higher speeds] later models with cross feed whilst being useful is not essential unless your facing all day, tri lever is fitted to the ml7 & not the super 7.not sure about making...
Spot on there B M we have a rayburn sfs & sweep the chimney every 6-8 weeks we don't get a lot from the actual chimney but the stove flues certainly get blocked, due to overnight banking up, we cook mostly on softwood & hardwoods & bank up with hardwood/anthracite mix it supplies central...
We live in a village & the rateable value of our property is very high,since changing to metered supply (our choice) our bill has gone right down mind you there's only me and the missus, we have a large veg garden but have about 900 galls of rain water storage, in the North East we will never...
Haha quite right there B S, they aint gonna let you off without charging you anything, think of all that dosh they don't get from no road tax, probably wear the toads out more than petrol/diesel cars.
Well I am a "professional" in my job covers a wide range of trades hehe I buy it in 5 gallon drums & it's the real stuff not Creocote has all the warnings etc on the drum from the "paint & thinners" man at the autojumbles you can get it from Smith & Allen in Darlo & as you say it's for...
I've just done my large shed with a paint roller[not the sponge ones the furry ones ] & took my garden gate off to do & replaced it after it dried,so the postman didn't catch himself on it I use genuine creosote 80% mixed with 20% used engine oil it dries & looks fantastic,,the gate was made 40...
Can't beat peanut butter, I've used it for yrs I remove the pin off a little nipper & smear the nut variety peanut butter round & under the loop & rod, catches em every time!! like the idea of a pipe, must try that next time.
Little John lathes [made by Raglan ] were a robust plain lathe & the bedways were seperate hardened strips bolted on we had one at the local model engineering club I was in, usefull for "hogging out" save wear on the myford, we had, it reminds me of a hardinge I was after all rusty just like...