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Hi giesser,

Your first post, welcome aboard.
I like your work/videos, I spotted you on youtube some time back and have been checking on your new vids as they came up.

I've been casting...

Hi beefy

Do you have a lot of bends to do and want to keep job in house? If not it may be better to just take the bending requirements to a fabricator with a pan brake or folder. I don't think it...

Late night eh Ueee, I noticed your post time:). The things that can keep one up late at night:doh:.

Bit of work ahead but good to see you got it in place ok.:2tsup:

Cheers.

Mars of Brisbane manufactured a lathe range named Hercules, so possibly:? a Mars.

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Hi Ueee,

If no one can help you from the French forum regarding the clamp I'm sure you will be easily able to work out what is required once you have the head up in position.
Double check with...

Hey Ueee this one isn't a universal mill is it?. Seems a lot of thickness between the traverse slideways and the top of the table. I can see a line across the front just below the levers with the red...

I say old chap, very seriously good bargain there, hope you have a receipt already, don't want him changing his mind:no:.

I recon you get the "Bargain Buyer of the Year" award. Better send the...

Hi .RC.,

Yep that's right.

Hope all is well in your neck of the woods and the big shed is being well utilised.

Cheers.

Lathe is Polish, they make em pretty heavy duty :2tsup:

Yep the grinder was unloaded here on behalf of my brother in law, it's in his shed at his house.

The truck driver also unloaded a Pacific...

Hi Ueee,
Rework and mod is looking good :2tsup: , NOW ya better get it done quick seein as ou you have a big mill coming.

The better half probably saying "Ueee, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?" :no:

...

Happy new year to one and all!!!

Well I got this machine back in late August 2012, finally got around to bringing it inside in December. 1500mm between centres and a 450mm swing, 5 morse taper...

Looks like it would be a really good project:2tsup: .

Ron's is a good and interesting site, in the past I've spent quite a reasonable amount of time on there, just find it interesting. I though...

Hi jack620, yea, I didn't think of that, next time I see someone at the park flying I'll stop and have a sticky beak:2tsup: and a gawk and ask a question or two:?. Plus the good bit, I've even seen...

It can't be too hard to get necessary fuel as I sometimes drive past a particular park on a Saturday or Sunday and there are usually flyers there with the aeoroplanes on a string, been that way for...

Well seeing as I'm mentioned in the LIST:D(message#442) I thought I'd better make effort to show her for all and sundry to gawk at, so ere she are. I had to search my archives to find them, edit etc...

For lots of info and "how-to's" on compression ignition engines of the model aircraft type see Ron Chernich's site. He is Brisbane QLD. based. It's a huge site.

Though called diesel engines they...

Great stuff:2tsup:, be good to see the Volstro hanging on it.
I see an empty banana box in the background, If they were Queensland bananas I hope they were all bent correctly:D:roflmao2:, we take...

Still on Windows Xp, fibre optic line

Google Chrome this time
:D:):U:? from the right hand list by clicking on em, ok showing up straight away.

Now from extended list:aro-u::aro-r::burnt:, ok...

Testing again

I'm on the other computer now. Windows XP, Firefox 15.0.1, optic land line.

Some Emotocons should be on the next line

I clicked on some from the right hand side of the message...

:fingerscrossed:

Ah-ha,
I just did that by doing the text name with the colon at each end of the word, I'll have to write down the text names of the Emotocons that I so love :biggrin: or is that...

:D:):C, So that's good today, strange.

now for one from the extended list
(supposed to be here)

I selected fingers crossed but it aint happening, fail?

Ok I'll try the text name here...

I just tried to put 5 in here, looks like fail.

Cheers.

When I post a reply and click on one of the smiley faces or one of the emotocons from the extended list it doesn't come up in the text box window, on one of my recent replies to a post a smiley did...

Hi aametalmaster,
I liked your reply to the plant manager, bit of quick thinking there.
Good to see you in the vid too, that's big work there not to mention the shed.
Hope it's a good company to...

Just realised, Ordinance Ball Bearing Factory most likely totally different to UBCO or perhaps UBCO took it over sometime later. Anyone from Echuca know? Just can't imagine there being two bearing...

Better reference info for UBCO

Echuca Ordnance Factory, Ball Bearing Factory, Echuca, Victoria, during WW2

Cheers.

UBCO Reference


Ball bearing manufacture at UBCO (ball bearing) Echuca [United Bearing Company] [picture] , State Library of Victoria


Cheers.

UBCO, Echuca reference

The Timken Company: Information from Answers.com


Info I read was that Timken set up in Ballarat in 1958

Cheers.

Yes and from me too to you pipeclay.

Merry Christmas and happy new year to all, and sundry of course and, and, the others too, naturally.

My new years resolutions, are, well, just last years...

Hi morrisman,
Good one, and to think some Timken bearings were actually made in Australia once upon a time, from 1958 in good old Ballarat, Victoria.
I come across them now and again when I'm...

Hi cba_melbourne,

Just a mo(supposed to be some smilies here) , metric bearings are toleranced from zero to the negative side of nominal on both ID and OD, except for some magneto bearings. The...

Yes Ueee, we are keeping an eye on you :D and that fella with the strange optical stuff ; now the rest of us are all normal, sane, sensible, rational....

Hells bells why is it so hard to insert...

Hi Anorak Bob,
Postage/freight probably prohibitive but here's a supplier over this side willing to supply small quantities.

Home

Hope you find someone suitable that's closer.

Cheers.

Here's the links direct to the tap handles, save a bit of searching for anyone who hasn't found them yet.

Enco - Guaranteed Lowest Prices on Machinery, Measuring Tools, Cutting Tools and Shop...

Gidday,

I wonder what quality difference if any there is between the one's shown by Anorak Bob and Big Shed.

I like both but leaning more towards Anorak Bob's as there seems to be more...

Hi,
Just for interest, what other cutting oils etc have you tried. I have never tried TapMagic but use (among other oils etc) Rocol RTD and generally have no major problems cutting 4140.
Be...

For more info download the Duragal welding guide from here
DuraGal® Easy Welding Guide (Technical Information)

Also have a look at Grahame Collins' info here...

Tis coming along good Anorak Bob, every bits a winner.:2tsup:
You need four? so two spares?:2tsup:, or are you fitting the 2 extra in the base you had move during the slitting saw episode. That's if...

Hi Steamwhisperer and all,
I don't know that it's not a repair but to me It looks like a coolant diversion "trough" when the pic is enlarged.
It looks to me that if coolant ran down the right end...

Thanks .RC. for the story and pics of the current going-on's of a central Queensland cow chaser:D.

I bet the truck crane:2tsup: will come in handy around the place.

I hope we get to see a vid...

Further to .RC.'s post about Grays CMI Toowoomba auction

Here's the link to Grays page with the various auction listings for CMI. The catalogue of items usually shows up on the start day of...

Thanks for letting us visit via the pics and video's:2tsup:. Great stuff.

Melbourne again!, all the good stuff's in Melbourne:rolleyes::D, well perhaps except the weather, so I've heard:D
...

Blackwoods sell Sutton stuff and list the imperial sizes but should also be able to get the metric sizes easily enough.

Cheers.

Sutton 6mm square listed here, 100mm long.

Tool steel | Hi-Speed Tooling

Cheers.

Yes that's always the big unknown, pity tho that our blokes' bid at that wasn't the highest:(

Cheers.

Hi Ueee,
:2tsup: It's lookin good.

I'd lock the clapper, set stroke position to give more room at the beginning of the stroke to give enough time to do the downfeed adjustment. Try a tool with...

$589 + Grays charges. Damn cheap for two grinders I recon, the boys should ah snaggled em.:D
Surface Grinders, Quantity of 2 - Jones & Shipman Model 540 Auction (0005-5003778) | GraysOnline...

Yes 1/2inch x 12 is common on NT30. They also come in M12 thread.
If it's got a short parallel snout on the drawbar end then advertise it as NT. BT hasn't got the parallel section.

Cheers.

Ueee, compound to be set at 0 degrees, ie slideways parallel to lathe bed. I think you understood that anyway.

Cheers.

The Eccentric Engineering one can,
Diamond Tool Holder

It doesn't have the round shank in the main body like the Ifanger one so it must be made with a leading edge clearance to suit most helix of...