Archive for October, 2008
Milling in the lathe
As mentioned in previous article about compound tables and cross vices, I’m interesting in milling to get better results than manual filing for my T-nuts. I realised that because of the small side of these nuts it would be possible
A couple of Machine Shops
Shed builder and workshopshed reader, Rex pointed me at a couple of interesting sites. http://littlemachineshop.com Little Machine shop pretty much provides everything you need to get going apart from the metal. They have spare parts, tools, digital readouts, kits for
Posted in: Uncategorised
Tags: Machine Shop
Water Clock
In Shorts Gardens WC2 there is a water clock above a shop, a large tube of water shows the minutes and a single handed dial shows the hours. There is a series of figures below the clock who presumably used
Posted in: Mechanical Gadgets
Tags: water clock
Finishing the Bezel
The bezel I started a few days back was finished off on Monday night and delivered to a happy recipient. The surface was given a very light skim to remove the paint and the ends were rounded off freehand with
Posted in: Lathe, Machining, Turning
Tags: heat expansion
Blog Action Day – Poverty
October 15th is Blog Action Day 2008 and the topic is poverty. Given the current situation in the UK it’s easy to forget that other people are still worse off than ourselves. As a skilled engineer there’s several ways you
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Tags: BlogActionDay, Poverty
New Workshop Practice Series Books
I just spotted that there are three new books in the Workshop Practice Series. The first No. 41 expands and complements the existing books bringing in a new topic of grinding, honing and polishing. No. 42 is a data book
Posted in: Books and Magazine Reviews, Grinding
Tags: Data, Mini-lathe, Workshop Practice
Melt 12th Oct
For the latest aluminium melt, I build a new two part flask and tried casting a couple of letters. After a trial run putting the sand in there was an issue with the sand falling out of the cope (the
Posted in: Casting
Materials: Aluminium
Tags: Flowerpot furnace
Inventors Exhibition with Wallace and Gromit
Baroness Delyth Morgan, Minister for Intellectual Property has announced that Wallace and Gromit will be at the Science Museum, London in a new exhibition designed to inspire and assist British Inventors. This £2m exhibition is scheduled to open in spring
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Tags: Intelectual Property, Inventing, Science Museum, Wallace and Gromit
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Metal sculpture in brass, mounted on an 1800s French Coin
