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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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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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
Surprise in the toolshed
On Monday night this Australian cabinet maker was looking for a screwdriver in his shed but got a bit of a surprise when he opened up his toolbox, a snake had taken up residence in there. “Scared the krappers outa
Drag Racing Powertools
Thanks to Martin Evans for pointing out this one: The BBC visited some drag racing power tools at Alexandra Palace. It’s not known why they were there but perhaps they were preparing for the event later in the year? “The
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More blobs to blocks
At the show earlier in the month I was looking for a 4 jaw chuck but failed to find anything small enough. I managed to get one online for a very good price, one of the jaws is a bit
Harold Hall on the Web
Author of some of the workshop practice series and many magazine articles, Harold Hall has recently published some of his knowlege and projects on the web. Metal work pages include: Workshop Tips Quick change lathe toolholder project Index of magazine
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Metal sculpture in brass, mounted on an 1800s French Coin
