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Evening all I was looking through ad's on facebay the other day, and seen an AGS 12 for sale £500 and on a whim I messaged the guy and said I'd take it for the five if he'd deliver. The guy near bit my hand off, It came from a hospital in Glasgow apparently and the two lads that delivered the...

Evening all A little refurb project I'll be starting on shortly, not a lot involved, just strip and clean on this XY compound table I picked up. Rob

Evening all Progress up date, Time has come to put the table on. laid out two timbers over the top off the base casting to maybe soften the laydown of the main table, then removed the batons once I'd positioned the bolts over there corresponding holes. Locating and tightening the bolt from the...

Hi Michal, I've just came across your AGS 10 restoration post with interest, I would liked to have picked up on It earlier. Its a lot of work you have put in, to get where you are now. keep at It, as Its looking good and nearly there. Well done

Evening All Latest progress, the spindle. So I stripped cleaned and repainted it, then back together again. I only had enough room in my vice to take the spindle only, with barely 5mm spare to push it back together again Tools used for the job, the rings off 3 spanners for,,,,/putting the...

Did he not put the screws on the queen, to change the name house off Windsor to Mountbatten?

Evening all Pics from yesterdays progress, Cleaned spindle components and repainted ,,,,/then went onto fitting cant shaft, worm drive/dropped in the trunnion and fitted the housing RKP bracket and housing ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,/ handwheel then pinned it in...

Evening all Cleaned all the spindle components this morn, then re-primed the housing and pivot bracket. I now need to order new bearings. I should have bought the bearing puller at the start off the project and had the bearing ordered. Anyway as I'd be waiting on the paint drying and recoating...

Evening all progress up date, Rise and fall shaft bearing and cant shaft with components. Took the pic's this morn. ready for fitting I thought I'd tidy up a bit and sweep the floor, in the off chance that I may have dropped a bolt, pin or wot not, went through the debris and all good. With...

Evening all progress update. I intended to reinstated the trunnion components yesterday, however when I trial fitted the parts after cleaning, to see all was operating as expected, it appeared all was good. Broke it down and put the nut and bolts in a tub, and I forgot to clean them. So a lot...

I think you missed the point, or it just went right over the top of your head, humans have ***** the plant and caused global warming. I believe we are already past the tipping point, though you or I wont see it, the planet is already over populated, but your alright jack. dying doesn't worry me...

I agree with what your saying, I am not anti vaccine, I was just putting my tuppence worth in. I've had my letter a few week back, I just ain't been to get it, I've never heard off anyone in my area who has died with covid, and if any have, then it must be few in number, and my area has had an R...

Evening all Todays update, done some cleaning and polishing of bits and bob this morning, buffing hand wheels, knobs, rise fall cant shaft and components, the trunnion and Its components, this took all morning. I then thought I'd fit the dust chute in the base unit, which was a pain, getting...

Did we not have the lid on covid back in July last, Then this government opened the flood gates and let everyone go traveling round the world, and gave us lockdown 2 It'll happen again this summer and we'll be dubbed up by September, if not before then.

Thoughts on the vaccine, this is voluntary. Give it to the old and weak first then work your way down the age groups, people below 50 are not on the list to be vaccinated as yet. we don't know the implication and long term affect off this drug. If things go pear shaped and people start dying on...

Simple ideas are always the best

Thanks Mark I'm glad to be nearing the end off this refurb, I have read many posts from UKW Colleagues on there refurbs and projects, and hope you good folks find mine as interesting as I did there's. I regret not documenting the work, with more and better quality pictures and narrative. Rob

Evening all dolly update, The plan for today was to reassemble the dolly, and 1st things a hick-up. I went and laid the shim's on the cast foot and noticed a clash, a 20mm clash with the shim and bearers. So mark them up and removed the offending pieces. cleaned up, primed and repainted. The...

Good evening all I'm gutted, I was bidding on the bay for a sander, and got pipped at the post in the last minute. my last bid was 1080 not that I'm needing it right now, though thought it was a sound investment, the hammer fell before I got another bid in, and sold for £1100 It was the...

How many knots are in your string ? If We know this, we could then give a good estimate to Its length.