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awemawson:
I spent today running hard wiring up in the gods from my three cnc machines back to my desk in the workshop. The replacement USB to 4 x COM port box arrived by post this morning and seems much more stable than the one that I returned (for which the paypal refund came in this morning :thumbup:) The thermo-plastic that they are making Sub D connectors from these days seems pretty poor quality. If you solder a male 25 way up the stuff melts so much that the pins point in all directions - had to plug the male into a female to keep them straight. I've been soldering these things for the past 45 years and not had this issue before :bang:

Then fighting a loosing battle trying to find a suitable DNC program to link them up. CADEM make what seems the most appropriate, but they are still failing to return contact - probably don't want any more customers :bang:

Tomorrow brings filling pot holes in the drive with concrete so probably not much will get done then :(

dawesy:
Think everything is made by accountants and not engineers now Andrew. Good idea for keeping the pins straight though. I'll remember that one ;
I never understand companies that don't respond to customer questions. Had similar from pace radiators recently. The replied asking for sizes ( which were in the first mail ) I replied with a diagram but had nothing since.
Hope you get it sorted.

awemawson:
Time to start slapping some paint around :bugeye:

I've had to make several panels which were never painted, and the previous owner has made a hash of a brush finish on most of the original paintwork. Now my RAL 7044 silk grey paint and etch primer has arrived it's time to get on with it.

Weather forecast is predicting a dry week end, even if it is raining as I write this. So hopefully I can glass blast the old paint off tomorrow and start spraying. I doubt it will be fine enough for outside painting. So I started this morning clearing out the welding shop to hopefully give me enough space to blow some primer on as soon as the panels are de-painted. Glad I put all the machines in there on wheels :ddb:

Next job was to remove the panels - the machine looked decidedly naked without them !

awemawson:
There are a total of ten panels needing cleaning and painting, ranging from large and heavy down to quite small.

I would really like to be able to strip the paint on the remaining horizontal surface surrounding the table as that too has been badly brush painted. If I could find a satisfactory way of stripping it I'd roller paint it to avoid over spray all over the work shop.

If only the original Nitromors stripper was still available it would do it easily, but the EU have banned all the good stuff in it that actually works :(

Any suggestions for stripping selectively without throwing stuff all round the workshop would be appreciated.

nrml:
Can I suggest trying screwfix's ''No nonsense paint stripper'' along with a tungsten carbide bladed paint scraper. The combination has worked very well for me. You need two thick coats of paint stripper left on for an hour each (as per the directions) before scraping. It seems to be the only paint stripper that actually does what it says on the tin and it costs only £3.20, so you don't really lose much if it doesn't work for you.

BTW Thank you for all the excellent threads you have posted. They have all been most interesting.

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