Recent content by Amplidyne

It's photographers, and graphic artists who know nothing about the subject. I sell photography through a well known "licence free" stock agency, and this used to be a regular subject on the forums there. I think my favourite ones are the ones that show people "soldering" and holding the bit end...

I've got one word to say to you. Asbestos. All us older types who worked in industry of any sort have most likely been exposed to it. I remember passing a chunk of it round in class at school back in the 60s! Could be some useful stuff to learn from The Vibration Guy. A mate of mine who worked...

I must find this safe place where I put stuff one day. There must be all sorts of good stuff in there!

Be more effective for the US government to ban about 75% of the videos I've seen online of people using woodworking machinery. Because that's about the amount I reckon I've seen that are asking to have instant amputations of digits. Personally, I prefer to use knowledge of the rejection forces...

Drill shank the right size, and cut it off on the grinder. Probably made in China, so it'll be metric. They're available in 0.1 increments commonly. Sorry, reading properly I take it its a threaded pin? Allen bolt of the correct size, and Loctite?

What about a fine diamond stone?

The dog wouldn't care. You wouldn't care. Your wife might notice though! 😊

Oh FFS just sharpen b****y things! 😊 It ain't brain surgery. (Especially if I can do it it ain't!) I don't mind seeing nubile young women doing stuff either, if they know what they're doing and aren't just there as window dressing that is.

Good luck with it. I've found 3D printed gears to be OK for lots of things, including the lead screw gears on my lathe. I would wonder about the change from the gear to the pulley (or whatever) though. Might be a weak point? Might be some way to reinforce it there? Thinking aloud as always.

All the pipe I've seen from various sources has been basically the same. From the cheap pipe from the local cheap hardware place, to plumber's merchants. There may be better stuff, but I haven't seen it. I suspect that it's all made in some huge factory in China, and brand engineered. I've...

As already said: pics. Not really sure what you want to do. Welcome to UKW

TBH, it sounds like a question that somebody in HR has dreamed up. Probably thinks "A scribe" is somebody who takes down the wise words of a king or something. They're probably underemployed if they're listening for wise words. . . I'd be tempted to say "I'd aim for thousandth of a millimetre...

Or a screwdriver, or as at the beginning of Alistair Maclean's "When Eight Bells Toll" a quarter inch mortice chisel? The workshop, or the kitchen is full of potentially lethal weapons. Government legislation is, as you say, made because they want to be seen to be doing something.

Exactly the same. I've got a jack, and a jointer, etc. but the majority done with a smoother. Mostly clean up to remove the planer marks. Like you, I'm a fan of minimal, if any sanding. Blurs the grain figure, and dubs edges over unless you are very careful. Scraper or scraper plane for...

A pointed argument, or a blunt argument?