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| Kludge:
--- Quote from: andyf on November 29, 2012, 06:19:39 AM ---Next time the olive oil goes missing, I must remember to check over the workshop first, rather than the kitchen. Actually, that's not as silly as it might seem; I have once or twice used olive oil as a lubricant when tapping. --- End quote --- And watchmakers will tell you there's no better quench oil then olive oil. It's also a decent lamp oil and has other wonderful qualities. The ancients had it right about how useful it is. |
| John Hill:
I spent a frustrating hour or so trying to get the newly balanced drive shaft fitted under a little roadster I had built. Finally I called the firm that had balanced the shaft and asked.."I know this is a maybe silly question but is there any chance this is not actually my drive shaft?" There was a slight pause and he commented "I think I know where the missing spacer is for our balancing machine." |
| AdeV:
--- Quote from: andyf on November 29, 2012, 06:19:39 AM ---OK, the search parties can stand down, with my thanks for their assistance. It was in the kitchen cupboard, next to the tea caddy. I must have made a cup while contemplating my next move, and set the collet down while moving the marmalade out of the way to get at the tea. Next time the olive oil goes missing, I must remember to check over the workshop first, rather than the kitchen. Actually, that's not as silly as it might seem; I have once or twice used olive oil as a lubricant when tapping. --- End quote --- IIRC, your shop is actually inside your house isn't it? Which would make it quite easy for things to end up in other rooms. For a collet to make its way from my workshop to the kitchen would involve a short car journey, several locked doors and a big gate.... On the other hand, stuff goes missing _within_ my workshop all the bloddy time... I keep buying allen keys and screwdrivers to replace the missing ones, blow me whenever I have a tidy up dozens of the damn things surface from all over the place. Doesn't take them long to vanish again mind. |
| andyf:
The lathe is in a bedroom (never used as such for last 38 years), Ade, because the garage (ditto) was full of junk when it arrived. But the garage had been tidied up to some extent when the mill arrived, so I put it in there along with a bandsaw and other small machines. This gives me a bit of exercise trotting up and down the stairs to fetch things from one machine to the other. As I write, the bench grinder is temporarily on the kitchen table for a little tool fettling, and the little Perris lathe is on a table in another bedroom, for want of anywhere else to put it. That too gravitates to the kitchen table on the rare occasions when I use it. Even when my wife was alive, I could get away with this sort of thing; her father was a respected engineer , so she understood. Andy |
| jamoni:
I'm fairly sure it's right next to the bushing I set down in the middle of my workbench this afternoon. Which is to say, lost forever until you replace it at great expense, at which point you will step on it. Probably barefoot. |
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