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Offline Sea.dog

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Re: DTI Challenge....
« Reply #50 on: February 14, 2021, 06:59:12 PM »
Fantastic  :clap:

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Re: DTI Challenge....
« Reply #51 on: February 15, 2021, 04:52:35 AM »
Beautiful! You did an amazing job!

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Re: DTI Challenge....
« Reply #52 on: February 15, 2021, 05:40:38 AM »
I'm really impressed. Nice work Bob.

I like the box too.  The question is who is going to find something worse for the DTI Challenge 2022?

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Re: DTI Challenge....
« Reply #53 on: February 15, 2021, 07:59:18 AM »
Great work Bob  :headbang:
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Re: DTI Challenge....
« Reply #54 on: February 15, 2021, 02:19:58 PM »
And I said that I'd have binned it!

Well done Bob.

Inspired by your efforts I took a faulty 0.001" DTI apart and found that the rod designed to stop the spindle rotating had sheared off flush with the spindle. I have some watchmakers slitting files and managed to slot the broken off part (cutting slightly into the spindle) and unscrew it. It was threaded 10 BA so a new part was easily made and I now have one more useful DTI in my collection.
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Re: DTI Challenge....
« Reply #55 on: February 16, 2021, 05:14:16 PM »
hi thanks all for the comments  as I have sed before their is no harm in trying to fix it your self if its broken you can not make it ant worse than it is regards bob

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Re: DTI Challenge....
« Reply #56 on: February 16, 2021, 05:40:04 PM »
their is no harm in trying to fix it your self if its broken you can not make it ant worse than it is

Yeah, well.. that's not strictly true... Just ask the Lister LR1 engine I went to "fix" (currently in pieces in a bucket); or the Jag XJS I was fixing (took it apart, it's been apart for 7 years now)....

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Re: DTI Challenge....
« Reply #57 on: February 17, 2021, 05:10:09 PM »
Nice work Bob as usual !

Now Ade, you know an XJS needs time to mature properly and for the penetrating oil to penetrate properly. Another years or two should do it,

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Re: DTI Challenge....
« Reply #58 on: February 18, 2021, 01:45:09 PM »
Ade I still think about that Jag.

Keeps me from thinking about my lathe.....
I love it when a Plan B comes together!
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Re: DTI Challenge....
« Reply #59 on: February 19, 2021, 07:30:10 PM »
lol at jag