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[Ropetangler]

Hi Dave and All,
Sorry for the late reply here Dave, I had one nearly drafted a couple of days ago, and have lost it, in the meantime have been going through the long saga of the Newbould indexer, and am currently only half way there. Didn't get the extra sleep, 'cos I woke up to what I should have done re DS time adjustment just after getting to bed, so on Sunday I went up to Longford to see the historic cars. Beautiful weather, and while you couldn't see too much as the cars went by on their speed runs, you could have a very close look while they were parked up in between runs. AFAIK the fastest was the 7 litre Monaro once driven by Brockie amongst others to victory in the 12 hour runs at Bathurst. It did around 254 Km/h - the track being a bit too rough, and the humps too much for the Porches to really cut loose.
The motor cycles or at least one of them put the cars on notice with a run through the trap of 291 Km/h, and later lifted to 297 Km/h I was told. That same bike has done 203 MP/H at L Gairdner in S.A. and that equates to around 326Km/h. All in all a great day.
I am starting to get into your book, and have not yet got to the end of the stuff which successfully made ti here. It seems that some problem has caused corruption of files, and although they appeared to have got through, only the first one is readable to about page 72 of the document (ie. the page numbered 72) which corresponds to page 77 of the file. This goes to page 539, but I can only get to p77.
In order to troubleshoot the issue, if o.k. with you, I will forward to you that file and also one of the others which I can't open at all. If you have no issues with either of them, It points to my copy of DJView being the problem, OTOH if you have the same problems as I have had, it seems that the files have become corrupted, rather than my viewer program.
I will wait till I have heard from you before I forward this lot back to you, just in case you have any problems with this line of action. Cheers for now ,
Rob.

[Dave J]

No one so far has said about any problems, but no problem sending them back for a check. They will go to my other computer so it will be different to the one that sent it.

Stuart or Bob have you had any trouble?

Dave

[Ropetangler]

Hi Dave , I have e-mailed in 2 separate e-mails 2 of the files to your e-mail address as per the address you used to send them to me, Cheers,
Rob.

[Stustoys]

Yes there appears to be a problem, I didnt notice it as of course I found the copy I had downloaded when you told me about it as soon as I saw that it was a djvu file.
"cannot decode document", corrupted iff file(illegal chunk id)"

The other version I have works fine.

[Anorak Bob]

Dave ,

I can't open the files. I'm out of my depth anyway.

Bob

[Dave J]

Bob,
In post 35 you can download the viewer.

Rob
I had a guy from the US ask me about a copy and he put me onto a program to break it down into parts for emailing. I sent him a copy of each one and he had no problems opening them, so I don't know whats going one.
I have sent a full version through, it's 42MB so see how that goes. If it works I will send it to Bob as well.
If not I will look into the individual parts, and might have to remake them out of the full version again. One way or the other I will fix it. lol

Also sorry Rob and Stuart for not answering the emails I have just seen. I don't get on that computer much unless I am expecting something, so it is better to PM me.

Dave

[Dave J]

Still no good, I have done all sorts like converting it to PDF etc with no luck
It is back up on the net for downloading
Machine Tool Reconditioning and Applications of Hand Scraping.djvu - 4shared.com - online file sharing and storage - download
and here
Machine tool reconditioning download - free download - (21 files)
There are others as well, sorry

Dave

[Anorak Bob]

Thank you for your efforts Dave. I will download the viewer on my computer tonight.

Bob.

[eskimo]

I have as PDF if any one wants a copy

I can also do put it on CD and post .....if there aint too many

also have this as PDF
Machinery's Handbook Guide - 28th Edition

also have two of these..i only need one..so how is the best way get rid of the other to the most deserving member of this metalwork forum?...thought about offering it as draw prize, but the woodworkers out number us so the probability of metalworker getting it is unlikely..

what about
who has started the most threads in the metalwork pages...or
has made the most posts (MW pages)....or
leave it up to the members to select someone from the MWpages?..the majority vote wins?

over to you guys for your ideas.....

ps its the smaller one of the two cos I'm keeping the larger one (bigger print is the only difference)

[Bryan]

After installing the viewer I was able to read the first file by removing the .001 from the end of the filename. But with subsequent files I got error mentioned by Stuart. I think the problem is the parts need to be reassembled by the same software that separated them. What did you use Dave?

[Ropetangler]

Hi All,
Certainly no apology needed Dave, and I too would like to thank you for your efforts, they are greatly appreciated.
Eskimo, WOW what a generous offer! I can't think how the "chosen one" will get to be chosen though. Thankfully I already have my own large print version, and a free download of the 27th edition, which will be handy if ever I need some article in a workshop environment, I will be able to print out the relevant pages and not have to worry about getting grease on my expensive reference book. Previous issue(s) were available as 2 volumes, which would be good I think as the work is now so big, that it nearly tears itself apart, by merely being handled.
I will put my name down for a pdf. version of Connellys' book though if it is not too much trouble, and my e-mail is r dot r dot gore at bigpond dot com, just make the obvious changes.
Bryan, I haven't tried it yet, but does your method enable the whole file to come up, or just the first 70 odd pages? I could decode the first 72 pages as they appear numbered, but there were indications that there should have been 530 odd pages. I might give it a go now and answer my own question. Cheers and thanks to all for your contributions,
Rob.

[Stustoys]

eskimo,
I like the "who has the most posts". Dave would win that, but he already has one

Stuart

[eskimo]

eskimo,
I like the "who has the most posts". Dave would win that, but he already has one

Stuart

lucky for him...cos your not allow to own two

[eskimo]

use
https://www.yousendit.com/

if your ISP wont let you send very large and I mean really big files

[Bryan]

Bryan, I haven't tried it yet, but does your method enable the whole file to come up, or just the first 70 odd pages?
Rob.

Just the first 70-odd. You can still see the index for the whole book because that's contained in the first section. I think this attachment management stuff is the home turf of the file-sharing geeks.