Replacing the cladding on workshopshed
Thanks to a few days off and some nice weather I’ve managed to replace the side of the workshop. The old side was made from corrugated plastic sheet, which had perished badly in the sunlight. It was very brittle and
Terminology
In the same way that some estate agents might refer to a small flat as being compact and bijou. Engineers selling old equipment on auction sites might use alternative phraseology to encourage sales of their old junk. Unique design =
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Tags: rust, Terminology
DDIY – Don’t Do it Yourself?
Lisa Anne Auerbach from the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest raises the idea of “Don’t Do it Yourself” which has not surprisingly got their backs up at Make Magazine. She raises the concern that by attempting to “Do it Yourself”
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Tags: DDIY, Home Improvement
Throw away society?
I’ve previously mentioned about the idea of make do and mend and how it’s been replaced by a disposable culture. Home users of products are even called “Consumers”. Thanks to the IET, I now know that Wall Street bankers are
Imperial to Metric conversion
Following on from my suggestings of yesterday with regards to design for manufacture, an interesting idea suggested on the Model Engineering Clearing house forum using 25.6 as a conversion factor makes 1/32″ = 0.8mm rather than .079375mm which you get
Estimating jobs
A few weeks ago I made some comments on Mike’s Models blog about machining job estimation. The key things I was taught to look at are “design for manufacture”, setting up time and numbers of operations. These three are all
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Tags: effort, estimation, operations
Cracking Ideas – Young Inventors at the Science Museum
“Brought to you by the Intellectual Property Office “Wallace and Gromit Present a World of Cracking Ideas” is a new website designed to encourage your innovation and creativity skills. Throughout this website you will find lots of tips and activities
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Tags: Intelectual Property, Science Museum, Wallace and Gromit
Bunny Boiler for Valentine’s Day
Due to a second fault in 3 months we decided to get the boiler replaced. A friendly and efficient heating engineer came and put the new one in place and took just over half a day to do it. The
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Tags: Aerated block, boiler
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Metal sculpture in brass, mounted on an 1800s French Coin
