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I did reject a corrosion warranty on a Goldwing that was ridden in the snow and left for6 months unused. Customer requested a return visit and turned out to be a body guard for a sheik in the middle east and was like a mountain. I stood my ground and thankfully he accepted it. I thought my last day had come.It has now been washed but it may be in that state for a week or two if the weather is not kind
It gets used so yes it gets dirty, it is not a garage queen even though it may be an African one
MSc today,the combo drill/tap are discounted heavily,as are their work trousers,but their on back order.
Anyone else use these just for the tap? I don’t like the anticipation of suddenly changing to low box just before the tap starts cutting.
Anyone else use these just for the tap? I don’t like the anticipation of suddenly changing to low box just before the tap starts cutting.
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My preferred taps are YG Prime powdered metal. They stand up well for me.
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cheers, 
looks like decent prices too, will get some to try.
Will see if I can find them easily enough over here... still too dear to get anything from uk, hopefully the brexshit will eventually sort itself out... lost a lot of my previous suppliers - simply way too costly, even if the prices are commesurate initially when you get humped with transport & import duties, it soon prices them out of the market.....
looks like decent prices too, will get some to try.Will see if I can find them easily enough over here... still too dear to get anything from uk, hopefully the brexshit will eventually sort itself out... lost a lot of my previous suppliers - simply way too costly, even if the prices are commesurate initially when you get humped with transport & import duties, it soon prices them out of the market.....
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Had to take my Lid in to Infinity Motorcykes York ( good guys) to have the visor adjusted, while I was there, this came home with me.
Not had to buy a satnav for at least 5yrs, and the Garmin Nuvi I had on the bike had stood up well to the weather it wasn't designed for. However on the trip home last week, I got fedup of it telling my I was in some city in China. Thought it was time to set free some months
. With discount £310. expensive but has loads of features I might get round to using some day
Not had to buy a satnav for at least 5yrs, and the Garmin Nuvi I had on the bike had stood up well to the weather it wasn't designed for. However on the trip home last week, I got fedup of it telling my I was in some city in China. Thought it was time to set free some months
. With discount £310. expensive but has loads of features I might get round to using some day
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Had to take my Lid in to Infinity Motorcykes York ( good guys) to have the visor adjusted, while I was there, this came home with me.
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Not had to buy a satnav for at least 5yrs, and the Garmin Nuvi I had on the bike had stood up well to the weather it wasn't designed for. However on the trip home last week, I got fedup of it telling my I was in some city in China. Thought it was time to set free some months
Nice. I've got the earlier Zumo 595 and it's excellent. I had a TomTom Rider first and it was a steaming pile of foetid dingoes' kidneys, so I sold it and bought a Garmin instead!
On the off-chance you're like me and like planning your own biking routes but hate BaseCamp, I wrote a (free) website for planning routes that can then be downloaded onto the GPS:
Link to the info page about it: https://www.cgtk.co.uk/navigation/gpx
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I have a new antenna comes in kit form so the Mrs will be busy tomorrow putting it together for me
comes in kit form so the Mrs will be busy tomorrow putting it together for me 
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I have a new antenna
"DX Commander" seems to be a whole range of antennas by that OM M0MCX - which one is it?
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It is the Classic. 10m pole that is resonant from 40m to 10m
Some bearings from a national engineering supplier for a work application:
Ah ha, you say, good old British engineering, when British engineering was the best . . .
Well it might have been, but in the years since, they've obviously not exactly been stored under ideal conditions, and whoever picked them ought to have simply bunged 'em in the scrap bin rather than send them to us!
Ah ha, you say, good old British engineering, when British engineering was the best . . .
Well it might have been, but in the years since, they've obviously not exactly been stored under ideal conditions, and whoever picked them ought to have simply bunged 'em in the scrap bin rather than send them to us!
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Ive been holding off until a reasonable screen screen appeared. Ive tried to use TomTom, cant get on with them. It's a long time since I've planned a ride using any Garmin app, too much grief, and we never stuck to them. However Id like to go back to Norway again so a planner would be very handy for that.
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Meanwhile, the flow of goods has started again - even to me, and I blame this forum for most of it.
With your reports about the fabulous devices for inductive heating of stuck connections, you have really triggered my imagination (loosening, melting&casting, hardening, ...) - because naturally the good stuff from GYS etc. cannot be considered for my hobby needs and so DIY is the order of the day.
A bit of small stuff from China is on its way to me for experimenting, but I also wanted to make sure that I have a voltage source in the back of the finished product that simply won't go to its knees:
So, a voltage source, which with its huge (stray field?) transformer will definitely not be brought to its knees, is provided .... but almost any old welding transformer would have been suitable for that ...
... but this thing has another trick up its sleeve:
It is called the "ENDRESS Electro-Welding and Unfreezing Apparatus" and is suitable for defrosting a frozen metal water pipe, for example, by connecting the two poles via two 1.5mm² leads to it and leaving them there for as long as necessary.
If this cannot be called "short-circuit-proof", what then?
And for not even the price of the electrode holder or one of the thick cables, it would have been rude to leave the thing sitting there.
So by flipping the jumpers, I have the choice between welding with up to 125A (140A) - it works, I 've tried it - at below 50V (the legal upper limit for non-hazardous voltages [safe to tough] in our country) and thawing with up to 250A at 12V ... and that at the normal socket with 220V in the past, 230-240V today.
No matter which circuit I continue with behind it, this should suffice.
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Unfortunately, I had to realise that making large internal threads deep in the workpiece on the Myford is not easily possible.
When the insert holder protrudes a certain length from its QC holder, it is no longer possible to produce a good thread, no matter how slow and careful you are, apart from the fact that it is difficult to see inside.
When making an adapter to a real woodturning chuck for the ML8, these will come in handy:
I measured something just over 15mm as the drive square - which is more likely 19/32" or 39/64" at that point?
Carsten
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a very stout little camelbackSome goodies
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Big thank you to @pressbrake1
Just have to learn how to scrape the camelback
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What is this beauty ...
... and what does "to scrape the camelback" mean? Thanks!
Carsten
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