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Posted by Prepair Ltd on March 14, 2008, 11:23 am
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>>Hi John,
>>Super idea, but two decimnal places seems a bit much, surely one place
>>would be enough!
>>BTW what do you need Stilsons for, apart from baillif bashing, risk
>>assesment assaulting and H&S slapping?
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>Torquing up the head bolts on his fleet of Reliants, obviously.
No, he's got a King Dick for that..... :-))
Peter
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Peter A Forbes
Prepair Ltd, Rushden, UK
prepair@easynet.co.uk
http://www.prepair.co.uk
http://www.prepair.eu
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Posted by Richard on March 14, 2008, 12:12 pm
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On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:48:19 GMT, John Stevenson
>On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:15:29 +0000, Peter Neill
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>>
>>Bit quiet, so I suppose everyone is busy on top secret projects.
>>So, in the absence of any meaningful discussion, I thought you might
>>like this little snippet.
>>I bought a bit from RDG on e-bay the other day, and when it arrived,
>>it came with a nice free 7" steel rule (thats right, 7"). Engraved on
>>the back it said " A little extra with RDG"
>>That was nice.
>>
>>Peter
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>Yes but be careful they are still only 6" long.
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>Here's my new toy.
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>http://www.stevenson-engineers.co.uk/files/wrench.jpg
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>.
A colleague of mine was on site in the USA a couple of years ago and
trying to get our machine guidance system working correctly.
Jet-lagged and tired he spent a day trying to calibrate the system
from their Imperial measurement to our metric - getting absurd
results.
Eventually after looking directly at the scales and deciding they
looked 'odd' he checked carefully with a plastic ruler, only to find
they were using 'deci-feet' ie 10 x 1.2ins = 1 foot !!
I understand he wept......
Richard
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Posted by shane smith on March 14, 2008, 7:46 am
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>
> Bit quiet, so I suppose everyone is busy on top secret projects.
> So, in the absence of any meaningful discussion, I thought you might
> like this little snippet.
> I bought a bit from RDG on e-bay the other day, and when it arrived,
> it came with a nice free 7" steel rule (thats right, 7"). Engraved on
> the back it said " A little extra with RDG"
> That was nice.
>
> Peter
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Posted by Tim Leech on March 14, 2008, 3:19 pm
Please log in for more thread options On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:15:29 +0000, Peter Neill
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>Bit quiet, so I suppose everyone is busy on top secret projects.
>Peter
OK, not very exciting or secret, but this is what I was doing this
morning:-
http://web.onetel.com/~duttondock/Pictures/Boats/Chimneycollar-1.jpg
The casting is a 'chimney collar', basically a roof flange for a flue
pipe. Although supplied with an angled flange, in this particular case
the angle was nowhere near enough but there was just enough meat to
'adjust' the angle. It's actually held in a 'universal'
angle-adjustable indexing head, though of course no indexing required
- just a handy way to hold it an an angle.
Not precision stuff, nor model engineering, but it would have been
awfully tedious trying to do a decent job with an angle grinder.
It was part of this job, which has kept me out of mischief for a
couple of days:-
http://web.onetel.com/~duttondock/Pictures/Boats/Clerestory-1.jpg
The clerestory section of the boat roof contains the water tanks, the
old loose-fitting timber top had rotted away and the leakage was
causing the steel below to rot. The new top, 24' long, is rolled and
folded 2.5mm steel, with the seams between plates welded, and the
flanged edges secured with about 150 M6 stainless machine screws
tapped into the existing 5mm upstand. I only broke one tap doing the
150 holes freehand, not sure whether to be proud or embarassed ;-)
Tim
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Posted by Michael Clarke on March 14, 2008, 3:30 pm
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> The clerestory section of the boat roof contains the water tanks, the
> old loose-fitting timber top had rotted away and the leakage was
> causing the steel below to rot. The new top, 24' long, is rolled and
> folded 2.5mm steel, with the seams between plates welded, and the
> flanged edges secured with about 150 M6 stainless machine screws
> tapped into the existing 5mm upstand. I only broke one tap doing the
> 150 holes freehand, not sure whether to be proud or embarassed ;-)
Be very proud ;-) BTW, if the water tanks are contained in the roof
section than I hate to think what that does to the stability of the
narrowboat!!!
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Michael Clarke
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>>Super idea, but two decimnal places seems a bit much, surely one place
>>would be enough!
>>BTW what do you need Stilsons for, apart from baillif bashing, risk
>>assesment assaulting and H&S slapping?