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Offline NicholasG

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Brand new member use
« on: February 20, 2021, 07:34:54 AM »
Hi there , and thanks for accepting me , I am a retired machine tool recon engineer ( mechanically biased) , I enjoy Various hobbies, air rifles being one , Tinkering I have built my own air rifles , also cars bikes etc building a motorbike at the moment .

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Re: Brand new member use
« Reply #1 on: February 20, 2021, 07:49:03 AM »
Welcome aboard Nicholas - you certainly live in the right bit of the country for engineering :)
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Re: Brand new member use
« Reply #2 on: February 20, 2021, 07:55:50 AM »
Hi Nicholas,
Welcome from me too... :nrocks:

Some fotos of your bike would be great and a few details please?
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Re: Brand new member use
« Reply #3 on: February 20, 2021, 09:41:13 AM »
Wellcome!

How did you found this board? This on one of the best kept secrets.

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Re: Brand new member use
« Reply #4 on: February 20, 2021, 02:18:44 PM »
Welcome that man from another motor-by-cyclist :thumbup: old but still at it. :doh:

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Re: Brand new member use
« Reply #5 on: February 20, 2021, 06:57:58 PM »
welcome Nicholas

building your own air rifles , intriguing idea but beyond me thus far


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Re: Brand new member use
« Reply #6 on: February 21, 2021, 09:52:53 PM »
hi and welcome

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Re: Brand new member use
« Reply #7 on: February 22, 2021, 10:08:08 PM »
Welcome Nicholas!   :beer:
I love it when a Plan B comes together!
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Re: Brand new member use
« Reply #8 on: February 23, 2021, 12:31:33 PM »
Thanks for all the welcome messages, I found this forum whilst researching a problem I am having with my lathe electronics, sadly not my area ,I began my apprenticeship in 1975 , serving my time in the machine tool reconditioning department, at that time mechanical was a seperate discipline, so I can scrape bedways and spindle bearings etc but electronic stuff escapes me . Stayed at the one company Massey Ferguson  Coventry till they closed, working in most of the skilled departments ( tool room, cutter grinding, machine tool repair, ) over the years, then worked for myself in the building trade for around 18 years, now retired, bought the machinery to build air rifles and keep my hand in , engineering was and still is my favourite bathing.

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Re: Brand new member use
« Reply #9 on: February 23, 2021, 01:44:14 PM »
Nicholas, do you have any pictures of things you've made?
I love it when a Plan B comes together!
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Re: Brand new member use
« Reply #10 on: February 23, 2021, 02:03:25 PM »
I do, I recently restored this moped I have owned since I was 16,   [ Invalid Attachment ]    [ Invalid Attachment ]  , this inspired me to buy the bike, a 1986 Suzuki, not expensive or collectable so going to be a custom build for fun , and I made the action for this air rifle in aluminium when I first got the Chinese mill to see if I could.  [ Invalid Attachment ]  

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Re: Brand new member use
« Reply #11 on: February 23, 2021, 02:04:33 PM »
Ok seems I can't upload the files will have another go tomorrow on the laptop

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Re: Brand new member use
« Reply #12 on: March 03, 2021, 04:18:44 PM »
Ok seems I can't upload the files will have another go tomorrow on the laptop

Check the image size. Have a limitation based on file size...
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Re: Brand new member use
« Reply #13 on: March 03, 2021, 04:25:38 PM »
A good compromise between image detail and data size is 800 x 600

By the way we're a pretty friendly bunch here so don't worry, no one is going to flame you for transgressions :clap:
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