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| awemawson:
Looking excellent Steve. :bow: Have you contracted 'Scrapers Elbow' yet :ddb: |
| bertie_bassett:
blimey you've put some hours into that, looks great for it though! |
| Manxmodder:
--- Quote from: RobWilson on April 04, 2015, 04:26:04 AM --- :bugeye: Now that lathe bed looks the mutts nuts Steve :thumbup: , you must have the patience of a saint mate :bow: :bow: :bow: Rob --- End quote --- He's just showing off with that scraping caper,what's wrong with using a block of wood and a bit of coarse sandpaper :) :)...OZ. |
| RobWilson:
--- Quote from: Manxmodder on April 04, 2015, 12:04:37 PM --- --- Quote from: RobWilson on April 04, 2015, 04:26:04 AM --- :bugeye: Now that lathe bed looks the mutts nuts Steve :thumbup: , you must have the patience of a saint mate :bow: :bow: :bow: Rob --- End quote --- He's just showing off with that scraping caper,what's wrong with using a block of wood and a bit of coarse sandpaper :) :)...OZ. --- End quote --- I would reach for the angle grinder OZ :lol: :lol: , Pete. sent me two carbide scrapers he had made himself , wow do they cut :dremel: Rob |
| Fergus OMore:
--- Quote from: Will_D on April 04, 2015, 05:33:06 AM --- --- Quote from: vtsteam on April 03, 2015, 09:47:38 AM ---Also some pre-rub orange stuff that he called "orange". No idea what those were, but it would be great to try an alternative to the Dykem Hi Spot and artist Prussian artist colors. I think they could be improved upon -- and probably are. --- End quote --- I also watched that video and was wonering about the orange pre-rub? Anyone any ideas? --- End quote --- I suspect that this is something called 'Burnt Sienna' which is an artist's colour and is a mixture of bauxite and iron oxides. I've still the remains of a tube somewhere along with cobalt blue. I couldn't get the normal 'red lead' locally and settled for going to an artist's shop. At some car boot sale, I came back with the equivalent of rubber pickabuffer rollers( ex the spinning industry) and then made here at Gateshead. Originally, there was family 'interest' in machine tools locally. Both went 'bust' then I began to look for places where there was the 'remains' of tooling and finally just gave up. Then I found a very abused Super 7B and was going to send the bed to Myfords in Nottingham for grinding. Then someone suggested 'Blue Diamond' in Shildon who had a slideways grinder. They dropped the price to compete with the Myford one( who went into liquidation) and Blue Diamond slideways ground the bed and Turcited the saddle back to height. The cost- apart from my transport to and fro- was a mere £250. I did the easy bits and gear cut the new gears. Then the snows and wind came. Whipped the roof off the workshop. Then I got real problems with my wife's medical problems. Nice to read about something pleasant. Thanks, Steve. Norman |
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