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So that's why I got lost............................. But a really good idea if you are lucky enough to stumble on a find like those rads.

Very doubtful about elm in this context. It's reputed to be longlasting if either completely wet or completely dry, but rots rapidly if in alternating conditions, which sound like exactly the situation here.

Just to add to my embarrassment, the tap arrived this morning, even though only ordered on Sunday morning. Haven't used Tracy tools before, but on this evidence, they look worth remembering.

Thanks for that, mate. Very useful, though I still have one new spare.

Within its limits it's fine. Not immensely powerful, but will tighten up wheel nuts on the car when putting on/taking off winter tyres, to the point where it only needs around one turn with torque wrench to get it right. Been using mine intermittently for a year or so, and it's still not had...

:oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: Started making the body of the adjuster, and got out set of metric dies for the 4mm shank. What's that odd tap, lurking under the tap wrench..........?? You've guessed....... A 4.5mm by 0.75 in HSS. Still, a spare might be handy some time. :oops: :oops: :oops:

You had me puzzled there. Couldn't remember where Northfield was, so checked on Streetmap, only to find there's one in Aberdeen too - fairly nondescript part of the city, so guess you meant the one near Pineham in MK. From what I remember that wasn't actually too bad by MK standards. But maybe...

Agreed with most of that, SB, and hadn't really thought through my original request. So am ordering the Tracy tools one as it's an urgent job and even with vat and post, it's cheaper than the Ebay ones. But one thing does get me cross - the way that too many companies discriminate against AB...

What''s a colour changer?????

Thanks, guys. The Tracy Tools one looks a good compromise but it didn't come up in a Google search. I'd found the Rotagrip one, which looked OK until noticed that they are another of those dorks that claim Aberdeen is in the Highlands and want to charge twice the price of the goods to send it here.

Aye, but that's one of those offers from China and as a suspicious git, don't fancy it.

you'll struggle to sharpen the cylinder on that without a proper grinder - DAMHIKT! Back in the 50s, there used to be one of those little ads with a line drawing of a device that it was claimed you could clamp to the fixed blade, spin the cylinder and it would sharpen perfectly. It wouldn't...

...a 4.5mm by .75mm pitch tap for one hole? I have to make a new brass adjuster for daughter's double bass, and while the thread on the tail of the adjuster is normal 3mm, the thread that actually moves the piece is 4.5mm and my metric taps only go in 1mm increments. Can't see myself ever...

Hadn't seen the follow-up to the original programme. From vague memories of it, Morgan certainly had some very odd ways of working, but J. H-J seemed to miss the point that the quirkiness of the cars was probably their strength. Interestingly, in the village where we once lived, there was a...

+1 for the Nobex. Recently got one (£3 from a car boot!) and it seems remarkably accurate. Certainly qiet! had a cheapo Richmond before; it was smaller capacity but was OK for 45 degree mitres. Not quite up to it for more.

Wonder if Morgan would still exist if they had done what they were told to by John Harvey Jones (ex-ICI, became TV business guru) back in the ?1970s?? From what I remember, he basically told them to stop being silly traditionalists and adopt a modern production line system. They apparently...

As a matter of interest, who is buyng the OP's generation? I sell to SSE (or "the Hydro" as we all call it) and also get my supply from them. Pretty sure that somewhere in the conditions for purchasing my generation, there is something that says inverter must switch off/be switched off in...

I'm no gorilla, but did manage to snap a Record 4 when trying to press the bushing into the steering idler on a Volvo 120. :oops: Without, if I recall, the aid of a scaffold pole. But I was younger then!

Sorry for taking this off topic, but thanks for that bit of info, Gradowner. Good job I didn't know the Drummond matched the ML8 or I'd probably have kept it and looked for an ML8.............. along with the Super 7, so would still have needed the Mystro.............. But as you say, 5 lathes...

+1 for the B&D attachment, but we still use a small platter I turned on it and it got me well on to the sloppery slip. But surprised you say the ML8 and ML7 have the same spindle thread. I thought that the 8s had a smaller thread and it was only the Mystro that had the same thread as the 7...