Today I acquired...........

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Yeah SA still use those, I’ve got a few 3 pin to round adaptors in my come in handy drawer from when I used to work over there a fair bit (and invariably always forgot to pack my adaptor so had to buy another on the next trip )

You can also find them on incorrectly installed cctv systems.

 

[Blobber]

I went out to get some 13A plugs, in b&q, couldnt find any. Asked a staff, she came back with round pin 15A plugs I did not know they were still sold or in use.

I found 13a plugs but they were three pounds EACH. As I left I checked the clearance bit where the 15A plugs were..might be useful.
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Switches and boxes may be useful for the melter project.
Tempted to fit a 15a socket in the shed for welder and melter.

Then to Aldi for these wall trays, I got two. Should allow me to find a home for amall parts.
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I used to use the 5 amp in all the posh houses for table lamp/standard lamp circuits so you could switch them by the doors with the other lighting

 

[awemawson]

Re acquired. A mold for a silicon carbide component I made from a lump of Ally about five years ago. They pulled five silicon molds off of it, still using the first one

So they asked if I would take it as it is in their way and they will never need it. Quick measure shows it will clean up to a 175mm dia billet, 180mm long. Don’t mind if I do….

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I'm confused Johnny

Was it for flexible silicone rubbery stuff or dead hard rigid silicon carbide - you mention both ?

 

[Hood]

Got this today at a very good price

It is to replace a servo drive I robbed from the Beaver NC5 to put in the plasma when one of its drives went up in smoke. Got it configured and wired up and it is working great

 

[Kram]

Zoro bits

Filter looks lile very old stock manufacutered 46/07, expiry 2011.

However at £4, I may aswell just use it as a cheap P3, it shouldnt loose any effectiveness.

 

[25.4_mechanic]

silicon carbide

silicon carbide

silicon carbide

Please forgive my ignorance.

I know silicone as something soft that I can't reconcile with carbide - something really hard ...!?

Is there anything special around you that I don't know yet?

On the other hand, I occasionally rework dovetail guides with different fine, wedge-shaped silicium carbide grinding and honing stones ...

Is it possible that the two terms silicone and silicium can be used synonymously over where you live?

Many thanks for any clarification

Have a nice evening all,


Carsten

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[Richiew]

Silicon.

Silicone

 

[Maker]

Please forgive my ignorance.

I know silicone as something soft that I can't reconcile with carbide - something really hard ...!?

Is there anything special around you that I don't know yet?

On the other hand, I occasionally rework dovetail guides with different fine, wedge-shaped silicium carbide grinding and honing stones ...

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Is it possible that the two terms silicone and silicium can be used synonymously over where you live?

Many thanks for any clarification

Have a nice evening all,


Carsten

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I've never heard of silicium, must be a German word, it's silicon (No e) carbide (Or carborundum) here. Silicon and silicone do get confused sometimes but they are different things, one's an element, ones a polymer containing the element.

 

[25.4_mechanic]

Silicon.

Silicone

I've never heard of silicium, must be a German word, it's silicone carbide (Or carborundum) here. Silicon and silicone do get confused sometimes but they are different things, one's an element, ones a polymer containing the element.

Thanks!

There is a German word "Silizium", of which I had previously known the international spelling "Silicium", as on the whetstones shown, whose German name is "Silizium Karbid".

The other way round: The first semiconductor that acquired practical use was made with "germanium" (no idea who found that element ... )

the second and better material for semiconductors then became silicium, which is still important today, our age is named after it .... Not?

You don't use that word at all???


Carsten

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[Pete.]

....it's silicone carbide.........Silicon and silicone do get confused sometimes........

Quite often actually

 

[Maker]

Quite often actually

Bloody hell. I'd like to blame autocorrect but I posted from my laptop.

 

[25.4_mechanic]

A dyslexic flower seller?

No, it was Clemens Winkler (1838-1904). Germanium was first detected on 6 February 1886, he called it after his home country.

Clemens Winkler, was a chemist at the Freiberg Mining Academy who was working with cobalt glass.
He examined the mineral argyrodite and found the new element germanium.
It later turned out to be the eka-silicium that had been predicted by Dmitri Mendeleev in 1871.

 

[25.4_mechanic]

I wonder if I will ever recover from that stupid question....

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Sunday evening, a phone call, "I don't know if you can do anything with it, it's in a cellar, that has to be empty, the thing is really heavy, something mechanical, but it doesn't do anything - I'll send pictures":

A rusty heap, stood in a damp cellar against a damp wall on the damp floor - but still promising - got it yesterday, round trip ~100km.

Absolutely solid, nothing moved, not even the bakelite lid could be pushed open - so first I soaked it in Ballistol.


Today I went to work : it is - you have seen for yourselves - a dividing head or dividing apparatus.

But this is an FVT from Friedrich Deckel, Munich - the company that has virtually set the standard in mechanical engineering here at home, at least for milling machines. Some people would give their right arm for a good FP1 or FP2; these and their successors FP3 and FP4 can still be found in productive companies today ...

I have been able to achieve that much in the meantime:

Everything moves again, every function is given, all scales are free and readable again!

The gear ratio is 1:40, 40 turns of the handle for one full rotation of the work piece.

The head every 15° has a detent for 24-fold direct dividing, the small spring-loaded knob is armed by raising it and locks into the next 15° detent when the handle is cranked.

For indirect dividing I only have this one disc, but something can be done about that ...

Enough rust seen for today

Carsten

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[Pete.]

That's a valuable piece! Similar to mine yet more desirable for the fact that's it's original Deckel not a clone or a copy

 

[25.4_mechanic]

That's a valuable piece! Similar to mine yet more desirable for the fact that's it's original Deckel not a clone or a copy

But yours is in better shape and I see at least one more grease nipple.

But how did they solve the locking mechanism in the dovetail at the top, which is different from the Deckel?

Where did yours come from? What is it called?

There is certainly more hard work and pride in it than in the junk that has reached me recently from China and India ....

Carsten

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[minimutly]

Bah, @Pete. beat me to it. Pay more attention @25.4_mechanic ...,
All you need now is the mill to go with it - turn detective to find it?

 

[JMS1972]

I wonder if I will ever recover from that stupid question....

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Sunday evening, a phone call, "I don't know if you can do anything with it, it's in a cellar, that has to be empty, the thing is really heavy, something mechanical, but it doesn't do anything - I'll send pictures":


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A rusty heap, stood in a damp cellar against a damp wall on the damp floor - but still promising - got it yesterday, round trip ~100km.

Absolutely solid, nothing moved, not even the bakelite lid could be pushed open - so first I soaked it in Ballistol.


Today I went to work : it is - you have seen for yourselves - a dividing head or dividing apparatus.

But this is an FVT from Friedrich Deckel, Munich - the company that has virtually set the standard in mechanical engineering here at home, at least for milling machines. Some people would give their right arm for a good FP1 or FP2; these and their successors FP3 and FP4 can still be found in productive companies today ...

I have been able to achieve that much in the meantime:

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Everything moves again, every function is given, all scales are free and readable again!

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The gear ratio is 1:40, 40 turns of the handle for one full rotation of the work piece.

The head every 15° has a detent for 24-fold direct dividing, the small spring-loaded knob is armed by raising it and locks into the next 15° detent when the handle is cranked.

For indirect dividing I only have this one disc, but something can be done about that ...

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Enough rust seen for today

Carsten

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You won't fit that on the Myford

 

[25.4_mechanic]

Bah, @Pete. beat me to it. Pay more attention @25.4_mechanic ...,
All you need now is the mill to go with it - turn detective to find it?

No idea what you could be referring to ...

You won't fit that on the Myford

You are right, 100%


Carsten

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[Olderisbetter]

I acquired pipework today

 

[Mick Annick]

A charrette, a small cart. Our elderly neighbour has it in her field barn which she’s now sold and wants rid of it. It’s quite small and has very short thin shafts, so not horse-drawn; maybe a donkey cart, or just hand drawn?