Two taps
My latest mini-project was supposed to be a simple sawing and screwcutting exercise of some aluminimum rods. It proved to be a little more involved than I realised when I found that the thread was 2BA. I purchased a suitable
Posted in: Uncategorised
Tags: Die, Screw Cutting, Taps
CNC stop button?
Need a big red stop button with a USB cable for your home built CNC machine? Perhaps this one from I Want One of Those would be appropriate?You would of course need to remove the cover and modify the functionality
Posted in: CNC
Tags: Panic, Stop Button, USB
Faceplate Dogs
Last month I roughly sawed and filed my cast aluminium blobs into blocks. The resulting blocks were too large to fit into my 3 jaw chuck so I hoped to mount them on the faceplate. There are many ways of
Posted in: Face Plate Dogs, Lathe, Machining, Work Holding
Workshop Electrics Basics
After a few comments from various readers about the complexity of my previous thoughts on workshop electrics I agreed to write an article for the shed blog for the readersheds National Shed Week. The article gets back to the basics
Posted in: Electrics
Tags: Safety, Workshop Supply
Thread experts?
A few years back, I went into Clerkenwell Screws, passed the man behind the counter a bolt from a second hand table and asked if he had any nuts for it. Almost immediately he came back with the comment, “oh
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Tags: Clerkenwell Screws, Screw Cutting, Taps
Tapping in Soho?
I needed a 4.5mm HSS drill bit to tap an M5 hole in my latest small project. Normally I’d order these online but as it was a nice day I thought I’d see if the local hardware store by the
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Tags: Drill bits, Hardware, Romany's, Shop, Soho, Store, Taps
Still no voltage
Following my previous posting on No Voltage Release switches, I’ve done some further research. Both my pillar drill and bench grinder already have these fitted, the lathe definately does not. Whilst searching the web for these switches, I found several
Posted in: Electrics
Tags: No Voltage Release, NVR, NVR Switch, Safety, Undervoltage trigger
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Metal sculpture in brass, mounted on an 1800s French Coin
