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Another method my BinL uses as a jeweller is the use of a draw plate, whereby you pull a wire through a reducing hole to decrease the diameter. It may be possible to use the same method to change the section. if you know of any manufacturing jewellers they may be able to help. Works with silver.

You will have to consider what you want to roll in your machine, are you wanting to reduce a sections thickness, or roll up sheet, or even roll section into rings and circles. There are different types of rolls for each of the above.

Arc eye burning like fire! Arc eye, when I blink there's pain. Oh will my eyes that hurt so badly, ever see again? Arc eye. How long to get a flash, milliseconds! One is bad, but a flash in both eyes, that is almost as bad as spatter in your ear and listening to the sizzle sound.

Thanks all, the dynamo meters out as working well, and is a big old CAV model, made into the timing chain, you have to remove half the front of the truck to get it out and hold the chain precisely in place or you loose the timing. An interesting thought that the capacitor may be shorting out is...

The Morris is way before alternators, what I am trying to fathom is why both D terminals are apparently earthed and what is the significance of the || symbol on the D+ earth, See below

I am trying to work out why my 1943 Morris Commercial C9 will not show a positive charge, I have tried three voltage regulators. One of the things that I am curios about is why on the diagram does both the D+ and D- on the dynamo show as going to earth, as well as to the Regulator for the D+ The...

You can guarantee that stuff I have been falling over for weeks will automatically disappear the moment I want it, only to reappear several days later after the need has passed or been got over. Currently a book I had handy to read has become completely invisible now I want to read it, so I am...

Those are REAL numbers, used by all those who don't need their fingers and thumbs to count by :D

Just to join in the conversation, I have a floor standing Denbigh pillar drill which also has a motor that goes around at lunatic revs per minute, it makes a very good rotary wire brush, part cleaning station. As I would want to drill up to 1/2" in steel and I think I can see away to convert it...

Another trick is to take an off-cut of wood, cut a V notch in it ensure the faces of the V are square to the sides of the timber. Now put your tap into its hole and bring the jig up to it until it holds the tap square in the V and then clamp the jig. The timber needs to be thick enough to...

My first thought was a combined harvester, but I am going for a tooth brush

Since we took an allotment our Morphy Richards has been invaluable. It has been interesting that even with the freshest veg, the tastes are quite mild, which I suspect shows just how much 'seasoning & flavoring' goes in the canned stuff. The big surprise with the maker is how noisy it is, as it...

The firm was established in the late 1880's I believe. I have a makers plate which I am sure came off the thing and that is for Haigh of Oldham, who did make woodworking machines at that time. My hunch would be that it is between 1890 & 1918. When I started in 1970, dotted around the yard were...

I was sorting through some old photos the other day and came across this photograph I took of the last time the planking saw was worked in the Groves & Gutteridge boatyard in East Cowes. Sadly, very soon after this picture was taken I had to cut the machine up, shame! Gareth

T'is a hand operated shaping machine, a tool held in the vertical part, should advance and retreat across the work piece held between the two vice jaws, cutting as it crosses the job being shaped or reduced in size. Depth of cut adjusted by the small hand wheel, and operated by rowing on the...

Thank-you for that, it has a very late Victorian feel to it and providing I don't mess it up with my attempt at sharpening for cross cut, I'm looking forward to using it.

I've been cleaning and learning to sharpen my modest collection of rusty saws, largely S&J with a couple of Tyzacks, I'm working up to the Disston, when I discovered an already dismantled and very rusty saw on the top of a cupboard, that hasn't been touched for years. Now that I have cleaned it...

They have started to arrive over here on the Island, little groups pulled over by the side of the road, strings of them spread out along our main and not so main roads. Confused ones wondering where the hell they are, and we in four wheels hoping not to meet one in the wrong place at the wrong...

Does the hollow see through plastic handled 130B count?

August Bank holiday will see the Isle of Wight International Scooter rally. The ride out from Ryde is always impressive to watch as it can take 30 minutes for the 5000 + machines to go by and some of the custom paint jobs are amazing. They are not my thing, but if I'm free I always go and have a...