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Posted by ravensworth2674 on January 29, 2008, 1:06 pm
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OK, I have made a GHT VDH- I can go rambling because I am the only one
so far who has addressed the problem- for this guy.
Clearly, it is impossible to download a comparison between two fairly
similar tools when I haven't seen one of them.
I have suggested that the guy can do no better than than to buy the
book for the differences- and if you have the access to what the newer
drawings were, I think that we would all like to see them.
Just for the record, I believe that we have a guy who does rotary
tables for a living who has added his glib comments.
He could have helped the guy. I believe for the record that another
makes division plates etc.
If we are going off for a ramble, let's visit all the viewpoints.
Somewhat annoyed
Norman
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Posted by Peter Harrison on January 29, 2008, 2:34 pm
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ravensworth2674 wrote:
> OK, I have made a GHT VDH- I can go rambling because I am the only one
> so far who has addressed the problem- for this guy.
>
> Clearly, it is impossible to download a comparison between two fairly
> similar tools when I haven't seen one of them.
> I have suggested that the guy can do no better than than to buy the
> book for the differences- and if you have the access to what the newer
> drawings were, I think that we would all like to see them.
>
> Just for the record, I believe that we have a guy who does rotary
> tables for a living who has added his glib comments.
> He could have helped the guy. I believe for the record that another
> makes division plates etc.
>
> If we are going off for a ramble, let's visit all the viewpoints.
>
> Somewhat annoyed
>
> Norman
>
>
>
>
Well thankyou for answering anyway. I do have the book in question and
with the help of it I finally managed to work out what you might mean.
BTW, since you went all biblical in your footer:
try Acts 19.32
Pete
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Posted by ravensworth2674 on January 29, 2008, 3:30 pm
Please log in for more thread options Peter, right- we have lift off!
Ignore' the voices crying in the be-wilderness'
If you refer to the photos from RDG and the drawings of GHT on Page
158 of Workshop Techniques ie Fig 17.1, you will find the casting has
been drilled to accept a steady. RDG shows the top of the bolts etc
but there in no indication of the drilling. So we don't know if it is
there or not. Unfortunately, Hemingway Kits is down and I can't price
the gubbins either.
If you feel capable of doing the drilling or using the hole in the
RDG, there is no reason why you shouldn't lay out the money and treat
it all as a part made set of castings. After all, you do get the micro
attachment( OK, talk amongst yourselves) and you get the detent and
three plates- plus a tail piece.and a pair of arms.Lot of work- trust
me!
What you have got- or will get, is a damned sight more than the single
casting which Reeves used to flog.Neil Hemingway flogged the lot but
there must have been hundreds made from simple beginnings.
Peter, good luck! Oh, and you can wake up those who haven't made a
dividing head yet but only talk and criticise.
A quote- I did think of St Paul and 'Be thou circumpect' but settled
for Samuel Butler's the Critic( How apt)
and
'He could distinguish and
divide,
A hair 'twixt south and south-
west side'
Norm
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Posted by Trevor Jones on January 29, 2008, 10:51 pm
Please log in for more thread options ravensworth2674 wrote:
> Peter, right- we have lift off!
> Ignore' the voices crying in the be-wilderness'
>
> If you refer to the photos from RDG and the drawings of GHT on Page
> 158 of Workshop Techniques ie Fig 17.1, you will find the casting has
> been drilled to accept a steady. RDG shows the top of the bolts etc
> but there in no indication of the drilling. So we don't know if it is
> there or not. Unfortunately, Hemingway Kits is down and I can't price
> the gubbins either.
> If you feel capable of doing the drilling or using the hole in the
> RDG, there is no reason why you shouldn't lay out the money and treat
> it all as a part made set of castings. After all, you do get the micro
> attachment( OK, talk amongst yourselves) and you get the detent and
> three plates- plus a tail piece.and a pair of arms.Lot of work- trust
> me!
>
> What you have got- or will get, is a damned sight more than the single
> casting which Reeves used to flog.Neil Hemingway flogged the lot but
> there must have been hundreds made from simple beginnings.
>
> Peter, good luck! Oh, and you can wake up those who haven't made a
> dividing head yet but only talk and criticise.
>
> A quote- I did think of St Paul and 'Be thou circumpect' but settled
> for Samuel Butler's the Critic( How apt)
> and
> 'He could distinguish and
> divide,
> A hair 'twixt south and south-
> west side'
>
>
> Norm
Sorry to interupt the fun, but does anyone have one of the RDG divider
yet? If so, could they perhaps post a picture or two to reveal a bit
more of the detail?
Incomplete, by the GHT design, or not? That is the question.
Suitable for use as is? Or not?
Been pondering pounding out a pattern for the GHT version. With a
little persuasion, I figure I could get one of my friends to pour a
couple for me.
Cheers
Trevor Jones
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Posted by ravensworth2674 on January 30, 2008, 2:52 am
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The book -Workshop Techniques- contains the drawings for
VDH to Thomas's design.
Page 295 Appendix C to whom GHT remarked 'There are people living in
parts of the World far removed from us'
Moving slightly away, GHT brought the modifications for the Headstock
version back- from New Zealand!
In a happier exchange of ideas, the Universal Pillar Tool was
mentioned. The drawings for this excellent tool are also in the book.
I have the staking tool bit done.
So whilst your mates are getting ready to pour, why not do the other
bits? I can assure you that you will not be disappointed in the end
products.
Norm
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> so far who has addressed the problem- for this guy.
>
> Clearly, it is impossible to download a comparison between two fairly
> similar tools when I haven't seen one of them.
> I have suggested that the guy can do no better than than to buy the
> book for the differences- and if you have the access to what the newer
> drawings were, I think that we would all like to see them.
>
> Just for the record, I believe that we have a guy who does rotary
> tables for a living who has added his glib comments.
> He could have helped the guy. I believe for the record that another
> makes division plates etc.
>
> If we are going off for a ramble, let's visit all the viewpoints.
>
> Somewhat annoyed
>
> Norman
>
>
>
>