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[Richard P Wilson]

Great job! You deserve to be pleased.

But hey 'some jobs are best left to those equipped to it' say some people (not me)

[Richard P Wilson]

I've managed keyways by regrinding a boring tool so the cutting edge is vertical, then racking it through the bore. Its best ground so it cuts on the...

[Richard P Wilson]

Most of the fun of a home shop is managing to do a job that by most standards you are not equipped to do! IMHO...

[Richard P Wilson]

Only if the filter gets blocked surely? A properly sized filter shouldn't restrict flow....

[Richard P Wilson]

Why wouldn't you put a strainer on the inlet side of the pump?

[Richard P Wilson]

If you don't have a suitable grinder (I don't) then your trial and error method is the best way. I usually set an existing taper between centres, and...

[Richard P Wilson]

If the arbour isn't hardened, and you don't need to save it for another use, then cut it off close to the back of the chuck, and put a big drill down...

[Richard P Wilson]

Well, if you insist on doing it that way and want to roughen up the shaft, you could knurl it, be quicker than multiple punch marks. Be a bit of a rough...

[Richard P Wilson]

So, a thin sleeve, and then cut it apart with a keyway? No, no, no. Make a new shaft, its the only way.

[Richard P Wilson]

Have you told your 'friend' what has happened and how its all his fault? What does he want to do with the part? The only 'proper' solution is to make...

[Richard P Wilson]

Lucky, lucky people! I could grow old and die here in the UK trying to source small quantities of stainless left hand and right hand Acme allthread, but...

[Richard P Wilson]

It asks me if I'm over 18 (yes) and do I want to see adult content. What in the world are they doing? Adult content? Anyway, I'm not opening it, not having...

[Richard P Wilson]

Its isn't that difficult. I recently made several vee belt pulleys from aluminium stock, ranging from 2" OD to 7 1/2" OD, on a 100 year old...

[Richard P Wilson]

What is an EE?...

[Richard P Wilson]

Close to sixty? Nowhere near being an old fart! Thats me at 71! We can argue till the cows come home about whether metric is easier or not, but I'm just...

[Richard P Wilson]

Sorry to be an old fart then, glad to know you are just waiting for me to stop hanging on and die.

[Richard P Wilson]

Making pastry is great for getting the black from under your finger nails---

[Richard P Wilson]

When I had a 12" lathe delivered a few years ago, it came off the delivery truck in the street on a pallet truck and a £10 note in the drivers...

[Richard P Wilson]

Not in this thread certainly, but theres been another thread on here recently complaining about them....

[Richard P Wilson]

You guys can slag off McMaster all you like, but you don't know how insanely jealous it makes me here in the UK to read of this one stop store that seems...