eLuSiVeMiTe
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Aye. Just eye wateringly expensive.
Still prefer my ts over the DeWalt track saws
Little details make all the difference.
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Still prefer my ts over the DeWalt track saws
Little details make all the difference.
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Agree mate, personally hate my festool extractor sucks well, but stupid shape makes it awkward.
Just glad i didn't pay for it.
If you bring your extractor connection & your tool to a decent hardware shop or builders merchants I'd be surprised if you couldn't get something close in waste pipe fittings. But it might work out cheaper to buy one of those stepped adaptors off ebay!
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starter and horn one side, lights and main beam t-other
starter and horn one side, lights and main beam t-other
Is putting the starter and horn together a good idea? Chance you might hit the starter rather than the horn??
On all the bikes I've owned, horn were on the left bar, starter on the right.
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LOL....I tend to engage that human organ called the brain before pushing buttons involuntarily. Its an organ which commonly seems to be seldomly engaged by vast members of the general public these days.......thanks for the heads up
LOL....I tend to engage that human organ called the brain before pushing buttons involuntarily. Its an organ which commonly seems to be seldomly engaged by vast members of the general public these days.......thanks for the heads up
It's easy to panic/fumble when that hazard suddenly appears whilst out on the road. I've just got a new to me make of winter glove, even a small change like that can make hitting the right button tricky at first.
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LOL....I tend to engage that human organ called the brain before pushing buttons involuntarily. Its an organ which commonly seems to be seldomly engaged by vast members of the general public these days.......thanks for the heads up
While I agree in principle. The horn on my pickup is a button on the column. After 6yrs I still go for the centre, not always but do find its when I most need it fast.
eLuSiVeMiTe
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Yup. I still go for the center of the wheel despite it being on the lh stalk.
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After years of driving Renaults with the horn on the left stick, the current one has it on the bit in the wheel. In extremis, I aways hit the stalk, then the wheel, not great to point out the miscreats extremely substandard driving in time for him to appreciate my anger! He then swans off in ignorance, while I have to resort to finding a bar to cool down with a beer.
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Don't think so, my 1962 van had a delicate indicater stalk with a bulb in the end. Horn must have been in the wheel? Headlight dip on the floor, along with the starter button between the seats. No relay, it was direct to the rough 'bang it in' CAV starter.
Prob Lucas starter 'Known as the 'Prince of Darkness' over in the US of A ;o)
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As to machining.. I just bored out a double pulley, then made a reducing insert to fit it to a motor for a friend's table saw. Bored it out for the first motor, only to find it went the wrong way. Wiring a bit tricky to to reverse, so found another and fitted the insert to match the smaller shaft. Quite a pleasant hour on the lathe.
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I machined some T Nuts for the soft jaws I purchased a while back.
I then put them into the tapping machine (manual one
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I then gave myself a dope slap. I had drawn and coded things up at home so I had looked up the Cutwel flyer to get the dimensions. Hole spacing was 28mm, when I tested it out for fit today I found out they are actually 30mm. Not a huge problem as I just cut it into 6 individual T nuts rather than 3 doubles.
I then put them into the tapping machine (manual one
)I then gave myself a dope slap. I had drawn and coded things up at home so I had looked up the Cutwel flyer to get the dimensions. Hole spacing was 28mm, when I tested it out for fit today I found out they are actually 30mm. Not a huge problem as I just cut it into 6 individual T nuts rather than 3 doubles.
My 1979 Mini certainly didn't have it in the wheel, it were on the end of the indicator stalk I'm pretty sure, the warning light for the signals were in the speedo.
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79 is way later on development. The stalks were changed in the 60s to multi function with the horn and dipping the lights. The original stalk only did the winkers. Vans were pretty basic, the heater was extra... and cost £250. No purchase tax, as commercial.
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Today I machined some Acetal bushes for a rudder tube, well actually 2 tubes I still have another of the long ones (180mm) to make.
Whilst I was doing that I decided to let the Chiron make some more T Nuts, this time with the correct 30mm hole spacing
And fitted with the cockup ones below.
I still have another of the long ones (180mm) to make.Whilst I was doing that I decided to let the Chiron make some more T Nuts, this time with the correct 30mm hole spacing
And fitted with the cockup ones below.
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on the Bridgeport mill? They are inside the quill that’s inside the head, and the motors on the top of it all?
