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    Aluminium tower advice please

    I'm lucky enough to work in industry. If its the right way to do it, thats what happens (generally). There's an acceptance that it's going to cost what it costs. Management don't look kindly on people splattering themselves across the factory floor. I've worked on plenty of sites that won't even...
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    Aluminium tower advice please

    In my experience they gloss over tricky questions like that. So long as you've been on the course, everyone's backside is covered and it's your fault if you get caught doing something stupid. In reality if you've got the outriggers set correctly you'd be fine hauling them up the outside. The...
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    Aluminium tower advice please

    We have a couple of sets of the youngman ones for work. Not used every day but they pay for themselves so quickly over hiring. We work as a team and can chuck one up in a few minutes - when we did our PASMA course a few years ago, we had ours built and packed away before the other guys on the...
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    Circlips - what's the magic secret?

    I have a sykes pickavant circlip tool that I got in a job lot of stuff - the product code is 028300. Mines old but they're still available new (expensive). It's tightened by a screw so not reliant on hand pressure. It's a fantastic piece of kit.
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    Acme nut help

    Chronos in my experience are just resellers of far eastern stuff. There are some big players that have a range like McMaster - Zoro, Cromwell, MSC, Brammer - but they are harder to buy from as a private individual than McMaster. To answer the OP question - is the acme thread ok and just the...
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    Diamond grinding cup

    Given the low price of wheel and a cheapy angle grinder I'd just give it a go. Throw the money at a serious dust mask setup, you'll need it!
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    Woden Vice Restored.

    To be honest I'd not noticed! I only wanted the stand anyway, I might swap it for something nicer from the hoard.
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    Woden Vice Restored.

    Couldn't hit buy it now quick enough when it came up as >5 miles on my ebay search! Not a fan of the poo brown though. I was thinking I may use it to display some of my smaller clamp on vice collection....
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    Woden Vice Restored.

    Nice, I picked up this woden vice stand last week. Unusually it's in great condition- no grinder scars or weld spatter!
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    Myford ML7 regrind

    From your initial question - regrind or bearings - are you talking about the bed or the spindle? No bearings to replace on the bed, which I think is what everyone is assuming your asking about... I personally think myfords are hideously overpriced - they're better than a chinese mini lathe...
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    Adventures in metalwork and machine restoration!

    bumped this thread up for the discussion on power files - pg12 is the last pics of mine - I should get round to updating this post! :ROFLMAO:
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    Power file for saw sharpening

    For handheld, there is the diprofil hand filing machine. Runs off a flexshaft drive, relatively common on ebay. They have a lot of different attachments for polishing and filing odd shapes. Static die filers are harder to come by and can command a pretty good price. I have had and sold a couple...
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    Hand is forced - new decking required

    Not a fan of decking for all the reasons listed above. Guarantee if you go down the local tip, the wood bin will be half full of the stuff... My dad has a balcony above a wooden single story flat roof section of the house. When the original wooden one was too rotten to carry on with, we made a...
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    auto centre punch, how long do the pins last?

    It's from lidl, I'd be amazed if it does more than 10 pops before it stops working... At work we use an auto centre punch a lot for marking out patterns. We used to be always breaking them - didn't matter if it was an eclipse or a cheapo one. About 10 years ago I bought a Beta tools one and it's...
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    Repainting Cast Iron

    Here's my most recent restoration, it actually took 4 coats because the colour was quite patchy. Just paragon enamel and a wipe of boiled linseed on the bare metal parts. I was lucky with this one, it only needed one screw making. My current project is a different kettle of fish, literally every...
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