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On 21/04/2020 at 15:34, grendel said:

 

After this i spent several hours deleting spam posts from a volvo forum  i am a moderator on, some nice spammer had spent literally 12 hours posting over 300 spam posts into 1 thread - 16 pages worth, as the forum software on that volvo forum is antiquated the multiple delete option does not work, so 2 hours just to delete all their posts 1 at a time.

As a mod on a plumbers forum some mornings there can be many posts that need checking and clearing which is time consuming to say the least so I can feel the pain.

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well i didnt finish labeling, i still have 2 sides of the taps and dies drawer unit to do. the rest of the occupied drawers are labelled, and i have less than a dozen unlabeled ready for some more junk useful bits to fill them. 

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I will say that the vast majority of this lot has been obtained via the local boot fairs, we have some good house clearance stalls at the local boot fair.

anyway Day 8 Thursday

awake at 05.00 am and about to head for my first coffee, after which the labelling process will continue, I am on my third reel of the tape for my dymo rhino labeler, its an industrial polyester tape and as long as the surfaces are reasonably clean sticks far better than similar non commercial labels

Yesterday I also received a part that I had been sent that someone needed reproducing, so I had spendt a quick hour drawing it up in CAD, before printing it out in ABS plastic overnight. along with coffee I will be comparing the 3d print to the original to make sure I have it dimensionally correct, then it will need to be packaged up and put in the post.

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Well that wasnt quick, it seems that not only do i have a full set of whitworth taps up to 1" I also have the full set of BSW dies, BA sized taps and dies, and a set of 26tpi (bicycle thread pitch) and 40tpi dies, but i have a full set of 1/64" drills from 3/64" up to 9/16", plus some odds including a 3/8 x18 BSA tap and some gas thread dies

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1 hour ago, grendel said:

Well that wasnt quick, it seems that not only do i have a full set of whitworth taps up to 1" I also have the full set of BSW dies, BA sized taps and dies, and a set of 26tpi (bicycle thread pitch) and 40tpi dies, but i have a full set of 1/64" drills from 3/64" up to 9/16", plus some odds including a 3/8 x18 BSA tap and some gas thread dies

Hello Grendel,

I can only think of the likes of your good self and I that would have the likes of the engineering items you list above, of course back in the day we only tended to use whitworth, BSF, UNF, BA and the like.

Regards

Alan

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dont worry i have plenty more unsorted taps and dies in drawers, i have a full metric set 140 odd pieces 3 taps per size, i have 2 more cheap metric sets, a whitworth set probably bought before the boot fair ones arrived.

drills get bought by the container load (its easier to say how much for this lot than dig out one or two and pay a quid each, whereas i can get the whole pot of 30+ for a tenner, and i have to say the older hss drills are much better quality.

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2 hours ago, grendel said:

 the older hss drills are much better quality.

Agree with you there Grendel. Modern ones I don't know what they are made from but they don't seem to have the same spark to them when you sharpen them. As an apprentice I must have spent years of my life sharpening drills. Of all sizes from minute to blooming gigantic. For all forms of metal, larger ones with waste flutes in them. My jeans always seemed to disintegrate quicker when doing that. I wonder why?

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well that was a good idea, i thought i would go through the drawers full of taps and see what i had available and maybe merge them into the tap and die cabinet, to my surprise not many were duplicates, there were some whole 3 tap sets of bsf taps, and some unf taps. 

I suppose the next thing to go through will be drill bits, of which i must have a few thousand, they all get sharpened when i get them, and i have sizes up to in excess of an inch, some that mount directly in the drill in place of the chuck.

 in case you are worried, the model making hasnt stopped entirely, i am allowing the paint to dry a bit more before going on to the next paint coats.

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Day 9, Friday

now its decision time, do i spend the day sorting drill bits (with maybe some sharpening) or do i do tidying around the house (boring) so i have a choice of boring jobs (pun intended) maybe do some and some, last night i made a start on the drill bits, trying to sort  the spade bits and masonry bits to start with, i can also sort the specialised drills with the taper that can go straight into my big pillar drill instead of the chuck?

maybe i will just do a type sort rather than a size sort, and leave the sizing to another day, i think i need a drawer set for smaller drills up to about 5" length for sizing the smaller drills.

lots to think about while drinking my coffee and munching breakfast.

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As far as painting goes i am giving the model a week to settle the paint having sanded the crackle flush, i need to allow the revealed surface a chance to properly harden. other work on the model, well without the hull to work on (because its sitting hull up for the paint) its difficult to do anything on that side, so its a case of fittings. for these i need to decide what to do next. i will go study my photo book and see if i can decide what features to work on next.

of course when i do post it, you will have to guess which feature i am making.

 

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Drill bits very approximately sorted into type and anything shorter than 5" sorted into a small drawer cabinet using generally 1mm steps between sizes made sorting quick and easy, bigger drills were sorted by type and stored away, sets with missing drill sizes were made up to strength and stowed away handy, i just have to find a new home for this cabinet.

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oops i should have posted that one about 2 1/2 hours ago. anyway next update i have done some house tidying basically a couple of hours cleaning and clearing in the bathroom.

what next, well plans for the afternoon are on hold, we have noticed one of our cats isnt well and after checking the vets website its on the list of vet visits, so we have a video consultation booked for about half an hours time, depending upon the outcome will decide if he needs to go into the vets itself for a proper consultation, or not, if he needs medication it will mean a trip out there anyway, so having decided what i was going to do on the model, we shall have to see if thats going to happen today or later on in the weekend.

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So phone consultation done, no need to take him in, we have probiotic paste, worming treatment, special food and a container to take samples - which i drove to the vets, phoned in, paid and then they left them just outside the door so i could go over and pick up. then as i was already out on an essential journey i swung by the post office on the way back to post a packet. the stupid thing is although we live just a few hundred yards from the sorting office, there are no post offices within walking distance, no problem as i was at the vets i went to a village one, my great claim today i drove nearly 15 miles.

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Day 10, Saturday, - shopping

the day dawned a bit chilly and dark, but otherwise fine, so 9am, off to the shops, once again lidls straight in, and to add to the fun they had bread flour and eggs (the flour is still sadly absent in all other supermarkets)

I got the bulk of my shopping in lidls, then it was asda for my daughters shopping, 3 times up and down the car park queuing to get in, maybe 25 minutes, amazingly asda had everything my daughter wanted, then finally sainsburys, where i had a 10 minute queue to get the cat litter (asda only has the very expensive stuff think £13 a bag rather than £1.75 and we use 3 bags a week) 2 1/2 hours and the shopping was complete.

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yesterday a package arrived, it was a large package that sloshed as it moved, a 5 litre container of a product I had seen used, but never tried, called evaporust. friday afternoon I placed some rusty items into a tub ancd covered them with this product, this morning when they came out, all of the rust had gone, truly a wonder product., so after removing everything from the previous batch, this time I had disassembled the vice for my pillar drill, which wasnt in the best of states rust wise, so in the morning we will see how this comes out.

this morning before shopping I had a CAD drawing to do, I had decided I need a steady rest for my lathe, this enables long parts to be held more securely, so a quick drawing was turned out, and just after lunch the 8 hour print was unleashed onto the printer, I am still awaiting its completion, but it looks fine so far, after that I have another quick 3d print to be done - an end cap for a friends telescope

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Day 11, Sunday

as i had a lazy day yesterday, plans are in place  for today,

yesterday i designed and started to print a lathe steady for my unimat lathe, this helps support  longer workpieces in the lathe when i want to work on the end of a longer piece of stock that dousnt fit through the headstock, normally you would use a tailstock centre to keep the work aligned.

I have since considered a mk2 where the nut on the back of the arms can be inset iinto the body to make it a captive nut, and i do need to replace the hex head bolts with stainless socket allen headed ones.

the 8 hour plus print finished sometime in the night, so was ready this morning.

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as i also mentioned yesterday, i put an old rusty drill vice into evaporust for 24 hours and if i say so myself its come up quite well.

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here are the tools and bits from the day before.

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and finally todays object for a clean up, it was only when taking the bits out this morning i thought that i should ave got before pictures- all the previous parts had a similar level of rust to this.

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Well the grand plan for working on the model today went out of the window, when i realised the thin stainless steel sheet i had still wasnt thin enough to do what i wanted, so instead as its a nice day outside, it will have to be paint.

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