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Yep, all the best for the festivities to everyone and safe travels for anyone going away on holidays.

If anyone else is chasing whitworth sockets, there's another Sidchrome set available here on FB marketplace:
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Gave the entire stand a going over with sand paper, largely to scuff up the blue primer, followed by a wipe over with acetone. Rust inhibiting undercoat done.

As a last minute decision, the...

Thanks. It's definitely solid, alright. A smaller section would have sufficed but chose to go with 65 x 65 x 3 SHS.




Spot on. The idea is for the stand to encapsulate a 5 drawer tool cabinet.

Long overdue, I finally made some time and finished welding a machine stand for the RF45 clone. The rectangular top was TIG welded in an effort to minimise distortion and the decision was worthwhile,...

Silence? Only because I'd been oblivious to the treacherous posts until this morning. :doh:

I think it would be a good idea to keep all the Myford tooling and accessories neatly packed in a box...

And here I was thinking I had 'friends' :U. Instead, they covet and secretly plot to relieve me of my Deckel D-bit grinder.:~

Gee, I really left myself open. I was on the other side of the country...

The thought genuinely never crossed my mind. But now that you mention it,………😂

I've been planning a shop built ball turning tool for a while but I have to say the Turnado looks mighty tempting with all its clever features and impressive flexibility.

C'mon Kafie, you know you...

Update.

Whilst our AUD has been heading south, Aliexpress offered a reasonable sale a few weeks ago, so I ended up committing $400 all told to this...

My lathe, a Paramount Browns FI-610, is generically the same machine and the OEM compound locking arrangement is truly woeful in terms of rigidity. I had been meaning do away with the compound...

The Inheritance Machining videos are all high quality and his creations are more than just functional, but consistently incorporate a touch of artistic flair. My thoughts often go to how the late...

Outstanding work so far, SA.

Stability. An axle above the springs will lower the trailer's centre of mass and thereby increase the trailer's dynamic stability such as when negotiating bends at speed. So I guess the OEM has opted...

I'll have the coffee ready :U

I think the aim is take the 50mm diam x 40mm long slug and neck it down at one end to a nominal 45mm diam x 15mm long. Is suspect there is a desire to preserve the annular offcut.

:U Or onto polished timber floor boards. Or onto the wife's new leather couch :o

bollie7, I won't be placing an order with that store.

The reason why I am contemplating Shenzhen Siton Technology Co is because according to AliExpress they have been around 10 years as well as...

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All my money has been refunded into my credit card via PayPal, so this debacle is finally over.


Now, looking onwards with an alternative DRO system, the two linkes below are currently front...

Credit where credit is due, that's pretty impressive.

The thing that stands out for me whenever I see machinists operating in 3rd world machine shops, like in this video, is the apparent complete...

Attached are some parting words from the seller. The entire experience has been a poo show and consider myself extremely fortunate to be recovering my hard earned, yet the seller audaciously requests...

AliExpress confirmed a full refund has been processed and this was confirmed by similar message from PayPal. A few days will pass for a transfer from PayPal to my credit card, but at least it's...

Well, well, the seller's until now untarnished 100% positive feedback appears to have slipped to 98.4%.

That's a positive sign that the Aliexpress machine is working. I'd have been disappointed...

Similarly, I really cannot recall any of my Aliexpress purchases over the last couple of years not being delivered. However, the saga with the subject and sizeable purchase from the subject seller,...

Update:

The seller has been so smooth with, 'trust me, my friend' and 'I give you my word' that the display would be shipped, together with extra scales, so long as I cancelled the dispute. Of...

Following on from my last post,

Flaming incredible. This worthless connector is what the seller with 100% positive review chooses to send in lieu of a DRO display. I'd seen the parcel but brushed...

Oh, the saga is getting so interesting.

I found a tiny parcel in the mail pile and also managed to locate the order tracking number. They matched.

Check out my Sino SDS6-3V Metal DRO:

Dispute submitted. And the anticipated run around has been quite swift.

Bear in mind my claim was for, 'Tracking shows delivered by item not received', now AE are claiming a combination of...

Ha ha, the thought crossed my mind, but my trust level is pretty low atm and I thought the clever blighters might photoshop the image to include a parcel.

For the record, the seller in question specialises in DRO and has a 100% positive review. But I'll go through the process of claiming a refund.

The Aliexpress dispute page is such that a dispute...

Yes, good point, John. I can see how they might think that, now.

I've had goods from local suppliers go missing, but when followed up the courier (mostly, Australia Post) has been able to provide...

So, I've gone and ordered a Sino DRO display unit and despite receiving a 'delivery signed for' notification 2 days ago, the parcel never arrived. Neither is the parcel with any of my neighbours. So,...

Great question.

Thinking about the observed deflection, I'm going to guess that the rolling process creates a level of residual stress in the longitudinal direction ie. lengthwise along the beam....

Yep, single point failure mode remains in place.

Michael and Stu have covered the key points.

If we consider a simple beam with a solid rectangular cross section, that the outermost edges carry the greatest load (actually, stress, where stress...

Thanks for all the replies, suggestions and offers. I'd forgotten about old printers and strut / shock absorbers, but in common with linear bearing slides from Aliexpress, they are invariably chrome...

I have a number of projects that require short lengths of precision ground and hardened round bar, typically in small 8mm to 16 mm diameters. An online search hasn't been too successful, for example,...

Ah, got it, we're on the same page. There was certainly no intention of providing advice to someone on something I thought they knew already.

If my understanding of the question and discussion is correct, two points may be worth mentioning:

1) The drive can 'twist' as much as it likes (ie. torsional stress has exceeded the material...

Whilst I do not have any first hand experience, at the end of the day, a deflecting beam is just another spring. Very small deflections are involved, well within the elastic range of steel. Torque is...

To expand further....

Torque applied to a nut or bolt overcomes essentially two sources of resistance: 1) the compression forces generated by the parts being clamped, and 2) friction, mainly from...

TBH, if that's what the manufacturer is claiming or perhaps inferring, then there's a little cleverness at play.

Newton's 3rd law, 'for every action (force/torque), there is a an equal and...

Agreed. My main takeaway was the balancing frame.

Handy tip.
Except, I'm not a fan of toxic gases, so I wouldn't be welding the zinc plated nuts without removing some plating beforehand.

I must be in the minority and keep my machines covered in drop sheets, not religiously, but whenever idle for periods of time and more so for protection against condensation induced corrosion. It's...

Nev, you may have to attach a link.

Looks like the trademark Waldon blue.

Hmm, not that one. The 8 inch model referred to earlier is blue in colour. Could be the trademark Waldon shade of blue but in truth a lot of the paint is worn or missing.

Kafie,

That grinder is a beauty. I know precisely what you mean by smooth and true. There's a 1 phase 8 inch model of similar vintage in my father's workshop, quite massive compared to the mass...