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    Electric vehicles

    I have considerable doubts about trams/trolleybuses being the answer.Not because they don't work but because of the reality of city life;what happens when the road is being dug up?At the very minimum it means that a stretch of the route can't be used and while it may be feasible to station a...
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    Electric vehicles

    Did anybody else read Matt Rudd's column in the Sunday Times yesterday about his EV experiences?
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    Straight edge for jointing, best method

    The problem of American terminology on a British forum...... What we quite reasonably call a planer,they describe as a jointer and what we, equally rationally call a thicknesser is a planer over there. The traditional answer to the question is a No 8 plane,properly sharpened and there may be...
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    Fobco Star runout after months of inactivity and several moves

    If you fell the drill is beyond satisfactory limits,you wouldn't need to pay me a fortune to take it away.A modest sum would suffice.Of course,finding a better piece of hardware might be a bit of a challenge.Should old emotional ties preclude actually parting with the machine,I would suggest a...
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    Panel optimiser?

    It looks like a good case for a CAM system with a nesting facility.Not cheap but they are very,very rapid.I have nested sufficient parts for 140 sheets in less than a minute.Only really workable in a CNC context,since sawing panels will have to accommodate through cuts.Probably nowhere near...
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    Sending furniture to the USA

    There is some useful advice here:Importing Wood to USA: Regulations, Process, and More .Several years ago a friend asked if I would help him to crate up some quite valuable machine parts for shipment to the USA and it was quite apparent that the only wood it made sense to use would be of visibly...
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    Can anyone tell me what these are?

    Definitely radius balls and height gauge blades.Both still useable and the radius balls are also used to form quick and convenient corner fillets for fibreglass components with wax or plasticene.
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    Workshop Butchery....

    Not something I have tried myself,but I have been on the periphery,unwittingly.What happened was that I worked for a company that usually presented each of the workforce with a frozen turkey at Christmas and they were quality birds.A few of the workforce had family or friends with whom they...
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    Best selling car 2023

    I don't suppose our political classes will object to a command economy.I haven't yet encountered a specimen of the class who didn't crave power.The problem we have is that we don't produce enough of the electrical type and we have too much of the political type in the hands of some fairly dozy...
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    Oscillating spindle sander

    I have an oscillating bobbin sander and it is the least used piece of machinery I possess.I still wouldn't be without it because for some jobs there is just no substitute.The loose bobbins that go in a drill chuck are sort of OK but the drill won't have been designed to resist sideways forces at...
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    Best selling car 2023

    I was aware that Tesla had been making tidy sums from selling credits and have been for some time.I did a search to learn more and this popped up Tesla Makes Money Selling Electric Vehicles, But 67% of Its Earnings Might Soon Come From This Instead | The Motley Fool . What might justifiably be...
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    Best selling car 2023

    I'm curious about what will be happening in 2024 when the car makers are required to sell 22% of their total sales as EV's.If fewer than 22% of customers wish to buy the vehicles,where do we go?
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    CNC advice please

    There endeth the good points.... I can't imagine what happens with a plunge cut.For similar space utilisation,there is no particular reason why you couldn't tip a conventional type of machine on it's side.
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    CNC advice please

    The idea of pre-tensioning the ballscrews to prevent whip is entirely sound and might be a good deal easier if the machine was designed to operate with fixed ballscrews and rotating ballnuts.If one of the users of the makerspace has the ability to 3D print toothed wheels it might be that they...
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    CNC advice please

    I don't know enough about closed loop steppers to give an informed comment but on either www.mycncuk.com or www.cnczone.com there was a post a few months ago that said you might as well stick with open loop steppers.If you have been aggressive enough with feed rates and cut depths to lose...
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    CNC advice please

    I think you are over thinking the hardware side of things.The loads are extremely varied and you need to take account of the force required to push the cutter through the job.You also need to take account of the frequent need for all three axes to move simultaneously.If you get it wrong the...
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    Woodworkers tool kit 1962-4 style

    If you didn't have an electric jigsaw,and not that many did in the 1960's,what other saw could you use to start a cut from a small drilled hole?Mine still sees occasional use but I suppose it depends on the type of work one might be used to.
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    Best selling car 2023

    No,I didn't miss that point.Nor did I miss the point that it was EU legislators that forced the adoption of common standards for mobile phone chargers and thus led us to sockets with USB connections.If they can act in one sphere I see no reason why they can't act in another.While they are...
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    Best selling car 2023

    As has been posted,it would require standardisation.A positive step perhaps as we might nudge the legislators in that direction.They did it with mobile phone charging and it would be nice if they could come up with a set of standards for not just cars but perhaps battery tools too.We could see...
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    Why is this dangerous kit being advertised on here?

    I would have serious doubts about any woodworker who needed to buy a pushstick like that.Glad he appreciated the need for one but needing to buy a shaped piece of wood?
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