Harold Hall on Preventing rust in the workshop
Given the time of year, I decided to ask an expert about how to minimise rusting in the workshop through the autumn and winter. I emailed model engineering author and ex-MEW editor, Harold Hall and he kindly replied with a
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Tags: harold hall, heating, rust, Workshop
More rust removal
Following up the previous post, I looked into the different ways of cleaning off the rust from the anvil. Looking at Isaac’s idea first, I found a couple of good articles explaining the process. Instructables has a few articles but
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Tags: rust
Rust Removal
Isaac’s comment on my anvil’s rust issue reminded me that I had a set of “Engineering Workshop Practice” by Arthur Judge on my bookshelf. From last reading I remembered that volume iii had a chapter on “Miscellaneous Workshop Hints and
New Anvil from a railway track
I spotted a little anvil on ebay and though it would make a good addition to the Workshopshed. Before purchasing this, I only had a tiny anvil on the back of my vice and previously when I’ve tried to do
Waterproof Screws
I’ve been reading “South” – The Story of Shackleton’s 1914-1917 Expedition. The environment that the men and their equipment had to survive is one of the harshest in the world, temperatures significantly below zero, high winds, salt water and confined
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Materials: Stainless Steel
Tags: galvanic action, temperature
Solar Time Keeping invention
Yesterday I attended an IET talk by Mike Groom who is both an IET member and a member of the British Sundial Society. He told us about the history of solar time keeping, sun dials and heliochronometers. He also recounted
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Tags: heliochronometer, Sundial
Box Repair
This was simple project to repair a childs wooden toy box. The origional design had some flimsy metal hinges nailed in with some thin pins. As my daughter manhandled the box the hinges bent and the pins came loose. Rather
Posted in: Repairs
David Gingery on Kindle
Some of the David Gingery “Build your Own Metal Working Shop from Scrap” books are now available on kindle. The prices are not much better than the paperback versions but those can sometimes be a bit hard to get hold
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Metal sculpture in brass, mounted on an 1800s French Coin
