The problem is that if Stew started with some construction somebody else is bound to moan that there is no list of materials, you can't win

I'd like to know where you're getting the sash weights from there as scares as rocking horse poo Your'e teasing me with that one Stew

Neil, I had a couple of sash weights that were as hard as hard can be, chucked them in the wood burning stove and built the fire on top of them, left them there overnight with a slow burn and they have 'normalised' to a state where they were machinable. Turned out to be a nice bit of iron after that.

If you don't have a woodburner, a charcoal barby will suffice instead Just bury the iron in the embers after a good cook out and see what happens.

Graeme

Apart from one that shattered when I dropped it, the weights that I havecut easily with a hacksaw, or the bandsaw. The broken one was too hard for carbide tools, and I don't have a log burner, or Barby.

Ian S C

Some of our ME suppliers would be looking at £65 for an similar amount of 40mm sq bar!!

It's tough to supply model engineers – there's a big difference between offcuts from a major stockholder and being a man with a garage holding a good range of sizes. It could take twenty years to sell nine feet of 40mm CI bar a few inches at a time.

Neil