slim_boy_fat
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He who hesitates is lost.....
- Thread starter God mode restorations
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Cobbler
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You beat me to it Slim
Barking Mat
Cuddler of hedgehogs.
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Ahh, come on, give them a chance....We ought have an award for "best understatement of the year".
Or, has lost...
MattF
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pedrobedro
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Faint heart never won fair lady (or something about little piggies but we won't go there) 
Barking Mat
Cuddler of hedgehogs.
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I don't know the latter, care to expand on that...Faint heart never won fair lady (or something about little piggies but we won't go there)
pedrobedro
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No it's got rude words in it and I don't want to make light of Memmeddu's feelings. Just google faint heart fat pig it might throw something up.
Barking Mat
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Gotcha, thanks, new one to me.
northwest
Searching for the Holy Grail.........
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Lived most of my life by this. Has caused me to get into a couple of scrapes once in a while though.
Today's little job (yesterday) made a number of oddball thread screws for a couple of vices, EN24, always finishes nice.
Memmeddu
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Since yesterday I was managing to kill myself....
An idiot with a big Scania half truck driving in the wrong direction ,I needed Brakes I pushed the pedal but nothing happened ,I had to Push the throttle and change approach to avoid the crash and then hand brake.
This morning I've called my friend who did the oil and filter change few weeks ago ,he doesn't have time till next month to change my brakes .
So I've done it myself .
Replaced the original Bosch brakes discs and pads with Brembo ones .
First side took me a little while to understand how to ,the other one less than 10 minutes .
Torqued everything to specs .
And drove my car on a forgotten road (maybe 3 cars each hour will drive on this road) to break in the brakes .
They work now.
If I knew it was so easy it would be done since I've got the parts in the mailbox .
An idiot with a big Scania half truck driving in the wrong direction ,I needed Brakes I pushed the pedal but nothing happened ,I had to Push the throttle and change approach to avoid the crash and then hand brake.
This morning I've called my friend who did the oil and filter change few weeks ago ,he doesn't have time till next month to change my brakes .
So I've done it myself .
Replaced the original Bosch brakes discs and pads with Brembo ones .
First side took me a little while to understand how to ,the other one less than 10 minutes .
Torqued everything to specs .
And drove my car on a forgotten road (maybe 3 cars each hour will drive on this road) to break in the brakes .
They work now.
If I knew it was so easy it would be done since I've got the parts in the mailbox .
The_Yellow_Ardvark
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Change of underwear needed as well?
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Memmeddu
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Nope I've cold blood in those situations .
Scare comes later when adrenaline goes in standby
Two words to describe what happened ....
Tokyo drift
selectedgrub
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The pot arrived back from blasting.
A sign made and it rubs the lotion on its skin
It nows looks more like concrete
A sign made and it rubs the lotion on its skin
It nows looks more like concrete
Kram
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It wasnt supposed to part there! Not found brass to be brittle before. It had a bit of runout from moving hex in collet, wall was 1.2mm where it snapped. Also cocked up the length. 28*2 is not 46
But they will be soldered to copper pipe so they didnt need to be longer than 14mm each.So now im doing something else..
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It's strange but for years I've noticed that people who get close shaves whilst driving tend to do that .. it's best to keep both hands on the steering wheel though .
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@ Kram that's an interesting shear ,
Did you physically check that the parting tool was still set true to height and parallel to the chuck face before parting ? Did you lock the saddle to do the parting & cock the slide to take up any free play on the cross slide ? I ask because the break point looks like the parting blade has grabbed ? Re looking at the picture did the tool holder connect with the work piece just at the last moment with out you realizing it , It's something I've done before now.
Occasionally when doing a thin brass parting off I've bored the bar to well short of the cut off point , parted it , then popped the piece back on the chuck and bored the hole from the opposite end then turned the last cut
Did you physically check that the parting tool was still set true to height and parallel to the chuck face before parting ? Did you lock the saddle to do the parting & cock the slide to take up any free play on the cross slide ? I ask because the break point looks like the parting blade has grabbed ? Re looking at the picture did the tool holder connect with the work piece just at the last moment with out you realizing it , It's something I've done before now.
Occasionally when doing a thin brass parting off I've bored the bar to well short of the cut off point , parted it , then popped the piece back on the chuck and bored the hole from the opposite end then turned the last cut
