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MCN
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PostPosted: 02:51 - 27 Nov 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
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PostPosted: 07:22 - 27 Nov 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
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I bought a nylon strings guitar (Ortega rce145), it's my first guitar of this kind. The playability is worse though, compared to the narrow steel strings guitar necks with ''unlimited'' sustain, that I'm used to, but the novelty of the nylon strings sound and feel are both worth it so far. Some pain and frustration involved as well. I'm probably playing it wrong. Thinking


Are you blowing across the hole?

I think you're supposed to use a bow on it.


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PostPosted: 08:34 - 27 Nov 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
A rather palatable Scotch as my Christmas present to myself...

https://ncnean.com/products/quiet-rebels-gordon
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PostPosted: 09:27 - 27 Nov 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
[quote="Diggs"]A rather palatable Scotch as my Christmas present to myself...

https://ncnean.com/products/quiet-rebels-gordon[/quote

Well fuck me.

I was going to be Sober to see in 2024 but now thats up the fucking slates.

Ill be popping into the purveyors in Sunny Glezga when i get home.

The schpiel appeals.
I trusts that it not too expensive. Rolling Eyes ]
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PostPosted: 09:33 - 27 Nov 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
£75 purchased from their stand at the BBC Good Food Show in Birmingham on Saturday. Spent a very pleasant day wandering the stalls, sampling all manner of grub and drinks. I settled for this bottle after quite a few nips. Rather special....
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PostPosted: 10:09 - 27 Nov 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
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a new watch.

https://i.imgur.com/rNh1KnQ.jpg


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PostPosted: 18:21 - 02 Dec 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
Another shed:

https://i.imgur.com/eVe21L0.jpg

Built this for my mum today.

Took some liberties with laying the roof felt. The instructions said to wrap and tack around the roof sheets then nail the sheets to the shed but cheap felt is way too brittle for that.
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A large Tonka truck for my two year old Grandson. Not as robust as they used to be though.
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PostPosted: 22:34 - 02 Dec 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
A little old lady gave me this for pulling her car off a wet field with quad bike.
I don't think it will stay unopened until Christmas. Laughing
I'm actually impressed she got something really nice to drop off.

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A new addition to my workshop - another gear hobber. This one can hob helical gears.


Get your arse to show and tell now good sir! Laughing


No show and tell but I got it up and going now cut my first helical gear

https://vimeo.com/890743506
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PostPosted: 12:58 - 03 Dec 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
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No show and tell but I got it up and going now cut my first helical gear

https://vimeo.com/890743506

Well impressed Thumbs Up
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No show and tell but I got it up and going now cut my first helical gear

https://vimeo.com/890743506


I had to get gears for a 90° drive made for a jib we were clashing together.
The previous repairers got a local engineers to make the gears first. They ingeniously grindeded the teeth off of an old truck diff.
Weldeded the teeth onto the bare stumps of the original gears.
Aye....
I got sizes from an old drawing and sent it to an engineer in UK. He said it was out of his Wheelhouse but he knew a guy.
The guy he knew just happened to own an engineering shop that had been going for about 100yrs. Them and another place in Spain were the only places in Europe with a mill that could machine that type of helix.
It was an American gear and the people in the States who made the drive were out of business.
It was made, it was very expensive but it worked perfectly when we built the box up again.
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PostPosted: 13:43 - 03 Dec 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
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No show and tell but I got it up and going now cut my first helical gear

https://vimeo.com/890743506


Thanks for the quick view around the machine, there's a lot going on!
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PostPosted: 17:30 - 03 Dec 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
Flight to Salzburg and a hotel room.
Christmas Markets! Hopefully Krampus too.
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PostPosted: 18:34 - 03 Dec 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Flight to Salzburg and a hotel room.
Christmas Markets! Hopefully Krampus too.
Mr. Green


We're off to Rothenberg ob der Tauber for New Year.

(I don't get off work until 27 Dec. Soooo....
I'll show these fekers here, Bah Humbug until I leave.)
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No show and tell but I got it up and going now cut my first helical gear

https://vimeo.com/890743506


Thanks for the quick view around the machine, there's a lot going on!


Yes, three gear trains, one doing indexing for the tooth count, one doing feed rate for the cutter head, and one driving the internal differential to add/remove turn of the blank for cutting the helix angle. All independantly calculated and set but all running in sync with each other to make the gear.
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PostPosted: 18:16 - 04 Dec 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
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Get your arse to show and tell now good sir! Laughing


No show and tell but I got it up and going now cut my first helical gear

https://vimeo.com/890743506


I'll let you off, seen as that was a really cool vid Wink Laughing

These old machines with exposed gears all synced together are a beauty to watch at work. Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 18:18 - 04 Dec 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
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A large Tonka truck for my two year old Grandson. Not as robust as they used to be though.


one of the few toys i didnt manage to break as a 70's child.
my poor Action man stuff didnt fare so well.
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PostPosted: 19:44 - 04 Dec 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
to v or not to v wrote:
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A large Tonka truck for my two year old Grandson. Not as robust as they used to be though.


one of the few toys i didnt manage to break as a 70's child.
my poor Action man stuff didnt fare so well.


"Give boy Tonka toy. Tonka mighty tough!"
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PostPosted: 19:46 - 04 Dec 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
Easy-X wrote:

Took some liberties with laying the roof felt. The instructions said to wrap and tack around the roof sheets then nail the sheets to the shed but cheap felt is way too brittle for that.


Run a hot air gun along the bend line to soften it before you attempt to bend it. Wink
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PostPosted: 21:10 - 04 Dec 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
Islander wrote:
Easy-X wrote:

Took some liberties with laying the roof felt. The instructions said to wrap and tack around the roof sheets then nail the sheets to the shed but cheap felt is way too brittle for that.


Run a hot air gun along the bend line to soften it before you attempt to bend it. Wink


I did have the foresight to leave the roll of felt snuggled in the front room with the central heating while I built the rest of the shed Smile Something for next time though Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 02:16 - 05 Dec 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
Islander wrote:
Easy-X wrote:

Took some liberties with laying the roof felt. The instructions said to wrap and tack around the roof sheets then nail the sheets to the shed but cheap felt is way too brittle for that.


Run a hot air gun along the bend line to soften it before you attempt to bend it. Wink


Police This is your Second Post where implementation of a Hot Air Gun is advised.Police

A Hot Air Gun is no panacea.
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PostPosted: 18:19 - 05 Dec 2023    Post subject: Reply with quote
MCN wrote:
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Run a hot air gun along the bend line to soften it before you attempt to bend it. Wink


Police This is your Second Post where implementation of a Hot Air Gun is advised.Police

A Hot Air Gun is no panacea.


No, but it's very useful for warming things up without burning them Razz
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A very expensive multi-itinerary conversion plug-socket thingie* which it wasn't until I had bought it that I realised it probably only accepts a European plug.
I don't even know - I'm too tired to figure out how the fuck it works. Its got sliders and stuff on it, but not an English pluggy-in bit - only European Rolling Eyes

I was distracted by the fact that it had two USB charging sockets on the side of the thing and I thought I could charge my phone AND my battery pack at the same time.
Luckily I found a seat in the Departures lounge that had a USB charging point beside it.



*(at the airport on the way home, cos my battery was running low and I forgot my European one and I was worried my phone would run out and I wouldnt be able to show them my bloody electronic bloody boarding bloody card Rolling Eyes )
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