i went today, my first time at such an event, and my impression was it`s like letting kids loose in a sweet shop, or, i died and was in heaven. thoroughly enjoyed it.

Incredibly frustrated!

I need to fit new brake calipers to my car, slim possibility I may get them today. If not may try and get to Doncaster by train tomorrow.

Neil

Nooo! He might be late if he drives fast with no brakes. We don’t want that, do we?

Went on Friday. Main car park full so found room in overspill park. Arrived about 11.00 and walked straight in to get a ticket, no queue and off round the stands. Quite busy and some outstanding work on display. Some of the trade stands gave the impression of being half the size of previous years and I don't know if Warco attended but I didn't see them. Managed to buy what I needed with very little jostling of shoulders and backpacks and noted various suppliers contact details for future purchases.. Went to the upstairs display of aircraft and gas turbines and the food and coffee smelled delightful. Back in the workshop now sizing several sets of ML7 half nuts wot I have cast, with a nice new 8tpi Acme form LH tap from good old Tracy Tools.

I went yesterday, club stands as usual the best bit, some good trade stands but a lot of tat. Not enough clocks for my liking but you can't have everything. On the way back on the train I experienced a rite of passage, a very polite young man insisted that I take his seat rather than standing. First time ever, I didn't think I looked that old. I think he was just trying to impress his girlfriend.

Neil, you can buy new piston and seal kits for about ?20 if you don’t want the expense of new calipers. You can fit em with the caliper still on the car – I did one of mine a few weeks ago. Andy

Only got there just before 2pm A very nice exhibition with some excellent workmanship on display.

Sadly much of the tooling I had seen before.

Nice Prusa (latest version) on the SMEE stand.

Lots of stands selling pairs of bevel gears.

Saw some nice spiral MT roughing reamers, sort of half drill half reamer. Sadly I don't need one at the moment.

Bought one of the ''unused edges' TCT insert holders, a BA socket set, 13mm spanner (you can't have too may 13mm spanners), clip-shut forceps.

One stand had some evil-looking surgical equipment including grim devices for holding large holes in people open…

Lots of people I have never met before asking about my brakes!

Trains were in chaos on the way back.

Today's total 15,322 steps, 8.04 miles… nothing on the 9th when I did 12.87 miles.

Not been since Harrogate enjoyed it, even the Mrs did.

Edited By matt sw on 14/05/2018 09:11:47

Plenty of photo's over on MEM buy Peter.

Bought Diamond Turning Tools from the Eccentric Engineering stand. Got home and found a problem when trying them out. Reported my problem to Gary Sneesby, and we began an exchange of messages, investigating. My alternative solution worked, but did not use a feature that he had deliberately built into the tooling.

He confirmed what I thought would be a problem.. Today I rectified this and everything now works as it should.

Thanks to Gary's advice the problem is now solved! Here's to lots of successful and enjoyable lathe work.

Howard