Yes, my bench at home has a kitchen worktop on it. It's been OK for about four or five years, but it's starting to become no good. Unfortunately at home there's nowhere inside for it to go at the moment, so at some point I'll either replace the top with something that can stand being outside, or somehow magically create some indoor space.
or keep an eye out for kitchen worktops on facebook for free they come up quite a bit and just swap the top bench part
Yesterday I was too excited about that, I forgot the best part of it .
Don't forget ... Learn how to clean the filter and take it apart to clean the condensate drain tray lest it blocks the outlet with slime .
Route it to take angle iron , countersink the screws you fix it with and use a decent sealer painted on the routed out groove before fitting the angle iron lip ??As it goes, I'm not short of small sections of kitchen worktop, I've been trying to get rid of some on FB for a while. I was just thinking it's a bit pointless doing the same thing again when I know it's "only" going to last 4-5 years.
I put some sticky tape around the edges of the one I used, maybe there is some better way to seal it.
Not quite "brown noise" standard, but closeMost subs start about 30 or 40hz, these start at 13hz, proper gut wobblers
I have a kenko 180 fish eye, picked it up at a market in Berlin for €22 about 10 years ago. It is an auxiliary lens that you screw onto the front of a 50mm prime lens to give a perfect circle on 35mm. Believe it could also be used with an 80mm prime for 120 film. Fun to play with and fairly sharp with a fair bit of softening towards the edges. Fun fact, one of these was used as the eyeball of HAL in 2001 A Space OdysseyThe Ektachrome I bought the other week is tungsten balanced, but I'll be shooting in daylight which means ideally I'll shoot it with a warming colour correction filter. Always keen to save a quid though, why would I waste my money on an 85B filter when I can just buy a lens with filters built in?
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It's a Canon FD 7.5mm fish eye. I like a wide lens but this might be taking it too far, it has a genuine 180 degree FOV, I think it's the shortest focal length full frame lens ever made. It's also the fastest autofocus ever made, which is to say everything is in focus, so they didn't bother to include a focusing ring.
So what was the first thing I did with (By far) the most valuable lens I now own... I had to see how the built in filters work!
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The bad news is I fitted it to my 2x teleconverter and realised just how much I want the 15mm fisheye...
I think I have a knacked one here somewhere too. Is that a zenon tube on it? From memory they used an inverter and charged a capacitor with a thyristor or similar switch. Should make a high pitched low volume whine.Picked up a vintage timing light recently, nice solid cast body, chromed, no damage to the leads.
Good condition protected by years of garage grease
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It’s a shame it doesn’t work. Circuit board is getting 12 volts ok, I have continuity on the HT lead. No obvious signs of damage or heat on the board. What should I check next - and how? Do the bulbs on these die?
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All suggestions welcomed. Many thanks
So you can buy touchdro in the UK? I looked and didn't come to a conclusion.My Chester Mill acquired two Z axis DROs one on the quill and one on the rising head. Had to move the 120V transformer down to fit it in.
Thanks to @RichardM for the Touch DRO setup
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I didn't notice any noise when I tried it with the engine running. Will try again and pay more attention, expect an update with findings !
It came fitted to my TS E Type, expect it was imported from ISA.
A 14inch TS420
