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| SwarfnStuff:
Great job, You have been a busy little Vegemite, (Australian saying) and one hole out in that many gears is jolly good IMO. I have not needed to make any gears or threads for that matter as yet so it's good to see a good example. Current project for me is Elmer's simple beam (#24) I think. I am learning heaps doing work-a-rounds to correct, or at least cover my blunders. Some of them come from taking an imperial set of drawings, doubling the size and converting to metric. I didn't redraw the plans, just converting on the fly. The rest from getting carried away with the fun of making swarf. John B |
| NormanV:
Thanks John, I too am converting the plans to metric, my machines are imperial but all my cutters are metric. It gives lots of opportunities for cock-ups. |
| NormanV:
I've just made my first cock-up! :lol: I was boring out one of the gears with it mounted with cyano onto a piece of aluminium. No, it didn't fall off, everything went perfectly. I removed it with heat, cleaned it up, and then found that I had bored the wrong gear! I could make a sleeve to bring it back to the correct size but it was the first gear that I made and I wasn't very happy with it so I will just make another. Ho hum. |
| NormanV:
This afternoon as a break from spoiling metal I decided to cut the grass for relaxation. What a bloody fiasco! I have a problem with badgers, don't get me wrong I love to see them in the garden, but in places it looks as though someone has attacked my lawn with a rotovator! I am not too worried about the appearance but there is great danger of me twisting my ankle in the holes that they make. I can't shoot them, they are protected, does anyone know of a good badger repellent? I am prepared to forgo the pleasure of seeing them. |
| Joules:
Napalm ? |
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