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| nel2lar:
I have study the Quorn and was it really worth building was my biggest concern? Well I took the leap and got the castings. After reading and studing the notes, I'll start the build. I started with a part that need bored and 2 holes drilled. The bore will not be done until I have the base finished because the lever connects to the base. Hope the following will be helpful and I may be comming for good advice. Nelson Collar |
| mattinker:
I'm looking forward to this! |
| Fergus OMore:
May I offer a comment or two, please? Before you inline bore the holes for the bed bars, I would suggest that you make up the boring bar which George Thomas detailed in his Model Engineers Workshop Manual. Again, I would not split the bores but would fit cottars as detailed as an alternative by Chaddock. There is a tendency for the rear casting bore to close up sufficiently to prevent the precision bar from fitting. In my first attempt, I bored too precisely and bore closed up with the slitting! Mine- is now unused and probably rusting! Norman |
| awemawson:
I confess that mine sits in it's box on a cupboard largely unused. Superbly adaptable machine. I notice that Home & Workshop machinery have a very well equipped one for sale at £450 which I think is very cheap for what it is. After all how much is a raw set of castings these days? A few hundred I'll be bound. I cheated with mine, it was part of the deceased effects of a modeler, very nicely made, but as usual when people pass on their relatives don't appreciate that things like this shouldn't just be 'shoved in a shed' for storage (= rusting). I did a full re-build on it. My wife's under instructions not to turn the heating off in my workshop until after she and the kids have flogged my stuff when I pop my clogs :lol: Incidentally, Quorn is the name of a village in Leicestershire that Professor Chaddock was associated with, the name has nothing to do with a meat substitute, or 'Corn' !) Andrew |
| Meldonmech:
Hi I have built this machine, and would agree with the comments Fergus made. Good luck David |
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