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Member Videos / Re: My week this week, my workshop videos!
« Last post by hermetic on August 17, 2024, 11:06:18 AM »
Hi folks,
 A whole uninterrupted week in the workshop! I get the majority of the build done, designing it in my head as I progress! The worst part was derusting the steel, the best was the welding AFTER I fitted a new contact tip! Also advanced two tech levels with the Rapidor, got the damper working correctly to lift the saw on the backstroke, and got the vice to cut at 45 degrees! Did an unscheduled angle grinder fix, but after all it did come out of a skip several years ago! Good progress!
Phil warm and dry in East Yorkshire
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Member Videos / Renown Australian made Vintage Steam Engine with Windmill
« Last post by Jim Dobson on August 15, 2024, 08:11:04 PM »
A wonderful old play worn Australian made Renown Steam Engine with Windmill and pumping station that was given to me by a friend and the missing parts were made for it from another friend of mine in New Zealand -

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The Design Shop / Re: Hydraulic press brake idea
« Last post by BillTodd on August 10, 2024, 12:52:02 PM »
Obviously it's important that no fluid can pass from one cylinder to the other to maintain stability, so some kind of flow control valve will be essential .

I know my brother found using a motorised power pack difficult (hydraulic flow control like a digger),  so switched to an air powered pulse type , which he says is easier to control (perhaps slower)

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Member Videos / Re: My week this week, my workshop videos!
« Last post by hermetic on August 10, 2024, 11:06:40 AM »
Hi folks,
  This week we complete the final preparations for the annual Wicani Jamboree, which is a get together of dog breeders and owners held annually on the field owned by my cousin Keith and I. This involves doing all the maintenance, repairs and tidying up we should have done at regular intervals during the year, and doing it all in about two weeks to make the place look great and to try (and usually fail) to impose some order on the chaos of nature! There is no such thing as natural beauty in nature! Eventually the strongest weeds take over and you are left with a monoculture of nettles, blind brambles and thistles. Sometimes we win, but mostly it just a wilderness! We love it, but really could live without the work it takes!
Hope you enjoy it,
Back on the Holbrook next week!
Phil, in pleasantly warm East Yorkshire.
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The Design Shop / Hydraulic press brake idea
« Last post by shipto on August 10, 2024, 06:12:09 AM »
I have a small number of rams and a powerpack and had planned to modify the rams like in the pic.
I may need a flow divider which are quite expensive but not a deal breaker but I am interested in opinions or other potential problems with this way of doing things.
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Software Tools / Re: Moving from Windows 7 to windows 10 - testing 1-2-3
« Last post by sorveltaja on August 09, 2024, 09:18:06 PM »
Quote from: Muzzerboy on August 09, 2024, 06:19:00 PM
It's in "display and settings" - just type "brightness" in the start button to get there. On my laptop there are also brightness up/down keys, thankfully, so I don't have to dive into settings each time I start up. But it's bl00dy annoying that it resets brightness each time.

I take it you're familiar with this kind of install process?


Ah ok, it's a laptop. I have two old Acer ones, which have similar feature, as well as volume adjustment. So far, I'm not sure what is involved with those functions, as they probably exist only in laptops and nowadays in other portable devices. Wild guess would be that it may depend on what kind of software different brands (Asus, Acer, HP or whatever) have pre-installed in their machines, as 'features'. I have never been fan of such, and therefore have removed that kind of bloat from my laptops, at the moment I got my paws on them.

So, if or when one looks for solution to such issue as you mentioned, there may not be only one way to skin the cat.

About the video you posted: No, I haven't got that far; no need for automation, as I only need to install one instance to my desktop pc.

There are, no doubt, other options available, but for me Msmg tool is enough to strip away all the excess and unnecessary bloat of the installation media.       

     
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Software Tools / Re: Moving from Windows 7 to windows 10 - testing 1-2-3
« Last post by Muzzerboy on August 09, 2024, 06:19:00 PM »
It's in "display and settings" - just type "brightness" in the start button to get there. On my laptop there are also brightness up/down keys, thankfully, so I don't have to dive into settings each time I start up. But it's bl00dy annoying that it resets brightness each time.

I take it you're familiar with this kind of install process?
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Software Tools / Re: Moving from Windows 7 to windows 10 - testing 1-2-3
« Last post by sorveltaja on August 09, 2024, 12:02:56 PM »
Quote from: Muzzerboy on August 09, 2024, 10:53:19 AM
Another annoyance with W10 compared to W7 - the intern tasked with messing up the brightness controls decided to reset the brightness at each startup to a nice low setting. So each time I start up my XPS13 I have to crank up the brightness manually. That must have been a conscious decision - you have to wonder why....

Is there some (possibly display card related, or other) software involved, that enables one to control the brightness? I admit to be a newbie with W10, as I haven't found such option in the OS itself.
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Software Tools / Re: Moving from Windows 7 to windows 10 - testing 1-2-3
« Last post by Muzzerboy on August 09, 2024, 10:53:19 AM »
Another annoyance with W10 compared to W7 - the intern tasked with messing up the brightness controls decided to reset the brightness at each startup to a nice low setting. So each time I start up my XPS13 I have to crank up the brightness manually. That must have been a conscious decision - you have to wonder why....
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Software Tools / Re: Moving from Windows 7 to windows 10 - testing 1-2-3
« Last post by sorveltaja on August 09, 2024, 06:14:45 AM »
Yet another registry hack, which enables 'old style' feature. When clicking volume icon, default result is on the left, and 'restored' one on the right:

 
 
   

Code: [Select]
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\MTCUVC]
"EnableMtcUvc"=dword:00000000
It's from http://www.thealmightyguru.com/Wiki/index.php?title=Windows_10_tricks#Re-enable_volume_mixer
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