Munkul
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How are you liking the Bohler Uranos? It looks like a really nice bit of kit
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Tangledfeet
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How are you liking the Bohler Uranos? It looks like a really nice bit of kit
Well, its far better at welding than I am! Not done much yet but already getting on really well with it and the reduction in spatter is very noticeable - it does have magical spatter reducing fairies inside it besides induction and burn-back control, etc. I'd really like to see a professional welder have a shot and see what it can do.
Munkul
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What were you using before the Bohler?
Hood
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I made a WWGW happy.
Been a long haul trying to get his turret working with the new SZGH control he has put on his lathe, almost 2 weeks of every evening on WhatsApp getting him to try different things and altering bits in the macro for him to load and try.
The macro he got from SZGH should have worked, I even made a spreadsheet to make sure it was doing what it was meant to, and it was. For some reason we just couldn't get it working, it would go to the wrong position and error, sometimes would just unclamp then clamp then error etc etc so in the end I decided to write a new macro and use absolute positioning rather than the incremental that SZGH had used.
Tonight it is running at the proper speed and positioning correctly. I will likely tighten up on some of the dwells in the code so that it clamps a bit faster after positioning but for now it seems to be ok.
Been a long haul trying to get his turret working with the new SZGH control he has put on his lathe, almost 2 weeks of every evening on WhatsApp getting him to try different things and altering bits in the macro for him to load and try.
The macro he got from SZGH should have worked, I even made a spreadsheet to make sure it was doing what it was meant to, and it was. For some reason we just couldn't get it working, it would go to the wrong position and error, sometimes would just unclamp then clamp then error etc etc so in the end I decided to write a new macro and use absolute positioning rather than the incremental that SZGH had used.
Tonight it is running at the proper speed and positioning correctly. I will likely tighten up on some of the dwells in the code so that it clamps a bit faster after positioning but for now it seems to be ok.
Barking Mat
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What's that a tool head?
I'm struggling with the WWGW.
Are you using Weegie, or Glaswegian?
I can guess suitable words for the other initials, but I suspect most will fall foul of the swear filter...
selectedgrub
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Added detail no one will see.
zx9
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Taper turned candy floss.
That was tedious, I have another one to do tomorrow whilst the tail stock is offset then do the other features on them both, I was contemplating some free hand turning for one end of them, we will have to see how brave or foolish I am feeling.
That was tedious, I have another one to do tomorrow whilst the tail stock is offset then do the other features on them both, I was contemplating some free hand turning for one end of them, we will have to see how brave or foolish I am feeling.
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Delrin.I’m almost scared to ask what they are
Hood
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I was thinking the sameI’m almost scared to ask what they are
Barking Mat
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For the new Ann Summers collection?
zx9
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I’ll rephrase that - what they will be, erm, used for!
Replica of the one above to replace the missing handles on my Hauser mill.
Life is never as much fun as your imagination would have it.
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Doing an oil and filter change on an 1968 E-Type something did not look right, the filter had no sealing faces and was floating about in the casing. Turned up a stainless steel washer and an alloy pressure plate, picked up the rest of the internals from a local specialist. No idea how long it has been running without filtration!
