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Thanks for that, Roy. I think I have seen it somewhere before, but if it can be done (not so sure how easy on my cheaper 1/2" machine), it certainly should take the strain off the clamp and make height adjustment so much easier. Rob

OMG I hadn't spotted the fact that Dave Sportique is just about local - I'm just south of the river and even closer than DickM, but no doubt he won't now reveal which locale his booty comes from ! :shock: :lol: Rob

Miles - let me be the first to ask what lathe you have at the moment and whether your turning is seriously ambitious as far as project size is concerned or just the average run-of-the-mill hobby turner? These are parameters that do decide quite what sort of machine you should be looking for...

I suspect the Ebay distance is "as the crow flies", as it in reality bears no relationship to the road distance. Something i was looking at recently - Ebay 75 miles; road 109 miles. Rob

Viamichelin has a similar facility and it remembers the post codes. http://www.viamichelin.com/viamichelin/ ... mePage.htm Rob

Good one, Bob - I felt so at home with the Dilbert cartoon!! I will enjoy passing that on to my engineer friends !! Rob

Morning Grumpy Bob You have my utmost sympathy - it's not only the phobia about technology, but the totally unwillingness to do anything about the it "being an area I'm not going to go into". It would almost seem as if engineers have an engineering mindset, the non-engineers the opposite and...

Bob - I know these things shouldn't be made too complex, but one option that might well arise is the workshop that has a number of fixed speed 3 ph machines - table saw, planer, bandsaw for instance - but then wants to run a variable speed 3 ph lathe. I was going to make what I thought was a...

Roy I worked in electronic reliability for a while. See this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub_curve What you're talking about is infant mortality, useful life and wear out. Rob

Yes to all of that Roy, but there's something wrong that a 3ph motor fails after a year. OK we haven't been told yet what the failure mode is, but from the Reliability Bathtub Curve model, a year is bumping along the bottom which is kind of unusual - it's not an infant mortality nor an old...

OK guys - if we are w****y waving. As a student (late '60's) I got a holiday job for 2 years in a factory making plastic sheeting - I was going out with the boss's daughter (she dumped me but I got the job!). There was a 4 bole mill superheated with steam under pressure, with each bole driven...

Hi Tim Can you help us a bit on this 'conked out'! ? Have you had to motor looked at yet to see actually what has happened ? The simplest failure is that the smoke has got out - actually I suppose with modern sealed motors it doesn't actually show, but is there evidence that overheating has...

http://www.aldi.co.uk/uk/html/offers/sp ... 6-04-12-34 Rob

Paul - I agree, but I recently bought a job lot of good gouges very cheaply that had very odd grinds and using the Tormek to sort them out would really not have been sensible. Using the Tormek jigs on the high speed stone was really very quick in getting the outline shape back again, and then...

Mark That is really a stimulating piece - very nice to the eye in shape and colour. You took my question away when you said the finial was not in wood - it was of course "how the H***did you turn that?" :D Or perhaps more politely "please give us a WIP on making it"!! Rob

Ah! If you are unlucky enough to pick up a heath problem, most tablets have the day of the week on the packaging if all else fails :lol: I have to find my glasses first before trying to read the date on my watch. Bob Oh come on Bob - what you actually mean is that you have to ask *someone*...

Nick - don't take it too much to heart :shock: :lol: . On the basis that there's nothing like bad news, I for one did at least learn all about drawing tenons. tensioning. Rob

And me !! or should that be 'add me' Rob

Three phase is just what it says (on the tin) - it's 3 phases; that is 3 X single phase in terms of wiring, hence the warning about dodgy electricians. It's that simple. My brother and I as "competent electricians" (this is Scotland where a background in electronics qualified us as...

Wizer - from the way that write and the experience you have I was putting you at that sort of age. Just goes to show how wrong one can be!! :D ](*,) Rob