What did you do today (2015)

[Clive HartlandParticipant @clivehartland94829]

The mains board has 2 RCD's, the circuits are split so kitchen and utility room and one small bedroom on one circuit and then living room and 3 bedrooms on the other. Cooker, Central heating, dish washer and fridges in wall sockets. garage has its own ring main entirely isolated from the main board.

Just comes to mind that an outside security sensor light might be a problem, checking it out tomorrow. Maybe better to just replace it.

Nephew is an Electrician and came in this afternoon and checked all house circuits/ring mains all good with no earth drops and high leakage figures of 500 to 999.

So problem seems to come out as something which is plugged in and operating 24hr. Kettle and toaster and things like that are all switched off at night including the PC. Will start testing with plug in RCD and see what happens.

Clive

Thank you for all the help. Will report any findings.

[Clive HartlandParticipant @clivehartland94829]

No problems overnight with the electrics, thank goodness as I have enough verbal about missing programmes etc.

Too wet and windy today to do anything outside as it's raining and high winds.

Clive

[EmgeeParticipant @emgee]

Posted by Clive Hartland on 21/12/2015 21:25:54:

Kettle and toaster and things like that are all switched off at night including the PC.

Clive

Unless you have DP switched sockets there is still a circuit L&N connection to the appliance, neutral to earth faults will provide inbalance so causing the RCD to trip, to isolate an appliance it's best to remove the plug from the socket.

Emgee

[EmgeeParticipant @emgee]

Posted by Emgee on 22/12/2015 09:07:19:

Posted by Clive Hartland on 21/12/2015 21:25:54:

Kettle and toaster and things like that are all switched off at night including the PC.

Clive

Unless you have DP switched sockets there is still a circuit L&N connection to the appliance,

EDIT Should of course be E&N connection

Emgee

Edited By Emgee on 22/12/2015 11:55:03

[Clive HartlandParticipant @clivehartland94829]

Just had another chat to the Nephew and he has put part of the board outlets through another RCbo which I would think isolates some of the problems to one set of equipment and not knock out all the circuits.

So it appears that the upstairs will be out of the trip circuit and only the kitchen and one upstairs bedroom would be involved.

Thinking of the outside sensor light, that I have found out is on the garage ring main and not involved with the house.

Clive

[S.D.L.Participant @s-d-l]

Posted by Clive Hartland on 22/12/2015 12:36:22:

Just had another chat to the Nephew and he has put part of the board outlets through another RCbo which I would think isolates some of the problems to one set of equipment and not knock out all the circuits.

So it appears that the upstairs will be out of the trip circuit and only the kitchen and one upstairs bedroom would be involved.

Thinking of the outside sensor light, that I have found out is on the garage ring main and not involved with the house.

Clive

Is the garage Fuse box / Circuit breaker box fed direct from the incoming fuses at the meter or from one way in the House Box?

Mine is a 40amp breaker in the house box feeding the box in the workshop.

Steve

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

It must be the season for it. I just got a text from one of my clients in Guatamala to say her house sitter only had electrics in part of the house. So went down there and its the American style fridge freezer tripping the RCD on one of the consumer units.

Just offered me whatever I want from it as she will get a new one when back in the UK and its packed full

[NJHParticipant @njh]

Just you take care young Jason ! I used to be a slim little thing and full freezers ( if we'd had them in those days) had no appeal………..Then I met my wife who is a great cook and well …. the rest is history !

Norman

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

Its not the food you need to worry about me with, its the nice young slim blonde house sitter

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

I've just received this from our daughter:

Lots of photos from the Apollo space missions now available on Flickr for your spacey daydreams

**LINK**

MichaelG.

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Edit: Jason won't mind: He's otherwise occupied 

Edited By Michael Gilligan on 22/12/2015 16:44:59

[Clive HartlandParticipant @clivehartland94829]

Steve, the garage has it's power taken from the incoming mains, busbars in the box so is not affected by RCD trips of the house. Would only be affected if there is a general electric failure from the incoming supply.

Clive, I did not want any interference from the machines to the house, which seems to have worked OK.

[mechman48Participant @mechman48]

Checked out the sizes of 4 gudgeon pins ( wrist pins for our cousins across the pond ) that I intend to use as cylindrical squares all within .001"…

Can use them as 4 individual or 2 longer as will be making sleeves to couple in pairs.

George.

[Bruce EdneyParticipant @bruceedney59949]

Posted by mechman48 on 23/12/2015 16:35:47:

Checked out the sizes of 4 gudgeon pins ( wrist pins for our cousins across the pond ) that I intend to use as cylindrical squares all within .001"…

George.

What a great idea George. What engine are they out of?

Bruce

[mechman48Participant @mechman48]

Not sure what engine they're from but son works in garage & he managed to get hold of them from a defunct diesel engined artic' tractor unit, can check with him for more details after hols'

George.

[David Clark 13Participant @davidclark13]

I just opened the second-hand Reeves Monarch kit I purchased on EBay a couple of weeks ago. I alway wanted to make this model since David Piddington described it in Engineering In Miniature around 1981.

I have checked it over, ordered one missing eccentric strap and a replacement bottom cylinder cover which will be undersize when I remachine the cylinder which requires a skim or just honing if l am lucky.

The bearing supports are skimmed undersize but I have some offcuts of marine brass to make new ones from.

All the rest of the bits seem complete so this looks like a good project when I am well enough to get back into the Workhop to restart my Stuart projects.

Edited By David Clark 1 on 24/12/2015 15:28:02

[mechman48Participant @mechman48]

Best wishes David, get well soon.

George.

[David Clark 13Participant @davidclark13]

Thank George. Happy Christmas.

[Mick HenshallParticipant @mickhenshall99321]

I did absolutely nothing today except feed the birdy wirdys and myself,bit of Christmas wind brewing and it isn't all coming from the South West!

Mick

[BC ProfParticipant @bcprof]

Best wishes David .

Brian

[mechman48Participant @mechman48]

Posted by Bruce Edney on 23/12/2015 18:24:23:

Posted by mechman48 on 23/12/2015 16:35:47:

Checked out the sizes of 4 gudgeon pins ( wrist pins for our cousins across the pond ) that I intend to use as cylindrical squares all within .001"…

George.

What a great idea George. What engine are they out of?

Bruce

 

They weren't from a tractor unit, checked with son tonight, they were from a 2.4 ltr Durotec Ford Minibus diesel engine … 32mm od x 65mm lg

George.

 

 

Edited By mechman48 on 24/12/2015 19:33:10

[David Clark 13Participant @davidclark13]

Thank you Brian, same to you.

[Anonymous]

Went for a walk first thing – amazing how much infilling is going on. Any garden bigger than a postage stamp seems to have a house being built on it. Followed that by a full fry up; used a new brand of black pudding – excellent and I shall be buying it again.

I finished sawing up the 3m lengths of 1" steel rounds that have been on the workshop floor for several weeks. I have a cunning plan to test a number of tool types on each type of steel and try and assess the conditions (rpm, feeds, coolant or not) versus surface finish.

I cut off a length of 7/16" stainless steel for the bypass valves in the traction engine water pumps and started machining them. But I need to think about the order of operations before I go too much further. If nothing else I need to machine and roll another front wheel rim for the traction engines to replace the one I fouled up, ie, it's not round. Since the vice is on the mill and clocked square I might as well do that before replacing the vice with the dividing head.

I have replaced the old controller on the Tormach CNC mill with the new one that runs their PathPilot software. I had no problems getting the controller installed and running, although it doesn't look quite like the pictures in the guide. However I failed miserably to get the USB wireless dongle to work. It's not clear if the drivers for same are installed. Which brings us to a design flaw in the controller. The driver software is on a mini size CD/DVD but it seems to be impossible to get it into the DVD drive as it is vertical with the controller standing normally. The disk always slips down and can't be read. I'll probably stick with transfering the G-code on a USB stick, which is what I do now.

I managed to get an existing G-code program loaded, which raised another issue. In my post processor script I have a line of G-codes to explicitly cancel various modal commands and ensure that the controller is in metric mode. One of the those codes is G15 equals cancel polar co-ordinates. PathPilot threw up when it saw G15 and said it wasn't recognised. Apparently G15 and G16 are not implemented, so no polar co-ordinates. Can't say I've ever used them but it seems a strange omission.

Most functions such as referencing, axis movement and spindle control seem to work as I expect. I've also been looking a tool tables and tool setting, and like the previous version I got confused. I have an electronic tool setter as I got fed up chipping carbide tooling when 'touching off' to set tool heights. I normally set Z=0 with tool 0 on the table and then use the automated function to touch off each tool on the tool setter. That sort of seems to work, but when using the automated function, and operating the tool setter manually, the movements aren't quite what I would expect. I'm reluctant to badger an expensive (£600+) tool setter to see if the function works the way I think. I'll have to wait until Monday and email Tormach and ask the question.

Now cracked the first of several beers and about to cook a chicken and seafood paella to be followed by some nuts and cheese and oatcakes.

Andrew

Addendum – Finished the first beer – at this rate I'll need to nip to Morrisons tomorrow for a re-stock

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

Spent most of the day having massive roast lunch with friends. Nearly degraded by keeping TV on after Queens speech which killed conversation for an hour or so of cartoons but threat of Dr Who got it off for some more social interaction.
Found them quite supportive of potential for local Men in Sheds initiative (not quite the same as Men's Sheds by the way) and found their neighbour is a model railway enthusiast which though not quite ME is potentially interesting.

[Frances IoMParticipant @francesiom58905]

finished the trunking to allow extra power outlets + also an emergency switch off of all power (tho this awaits delivery of the two contactors + box, a job that would have taken 30min if I’d done it when I set up the workshop now took a day by time tools + material shifted out of place and put back, also installed a large computer monitor(cheap second hand) in sight of mill + lathe to encourage further progress on some CNC as well as putting the commonly accessed data (eg tapping threads etc) within easy access using a remote keyboard + a Raspberry Pi fitted behind the monitor; also installed some air line in bright blue 15mm plastic which avoids having an air pipe coil across the doorway to reach the compressor tho found one of the QR fittings doesn’t seem to take standard bayonet but otherwise seems reasonably air tight

[Chris Evans 6Participant @chrisevans6]

Only managed a couple of hours workshop time before going to Daughters for lunch. After a good tidy up I cleaned the lathe ready for a major strip down tomorrow. I intend to make patterns and get a new cross slide cast so I can incorporate rear tool post, I will make (From threaded acme bar) a new cross slide lead screw and modify a pair of nuts from the same supplier. The cross slide will be beefed up a fair bit in the process. One other thing to sort is the traverse which has started to falter as it gets close to the chuck, not sure what is going on there but needs sorting.

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