What Did You Do Today 2025

[Nicholas FarrParticipant @nicholasfarr14254]

Hi, I’ve tried an old used piece of carbon paper on a piece of brass and it seems to work, that’s assuming you wish to trace it out.

Regards Nick.

[JasonB]

On JasonB Said:

.. …just stick it or a copy of it to the metal and cut through both… ..

Oh yeah! – Doh…😁

 

 

[Nigel Graham 2Participant @nigelgraham2]

Finished my steam-lorry’s rear axle: I’d built it a long time ago but it needed a new sprocket and various other changes. The details included making two Stauffer-type grease-lubricators, which had my scraping myself off the ceiling until I realised the tap was blunt so cutting undersize! Still, a nice exercise in screw-cutting the external threads.

 

[Sonic EscapeParticipant @sonicescape38234]

I discovered that there is a nice public library 100m from my home. You just go inside, pick any book you want and start to read it. You don’t need any permit if you don’t take it home. Also is more effective to learn Spanish in this way than by reading some boring grammar book. I hated school. The book on the left is quite interesting. And since the technical books have a more reduced vocabulary I can understand around 70% of the text. To be fair it has also a lot of pictures that help. Overall a very nice place to relax.

[Nigel Graham 2Participant @nigelgraham2]

That looks a lovely place to study in a relaxing way! What probably helps using techncial books in other languages is that terms developed within the last couple of centuries often insinuate themselves into various languages by simple “~ifying”.

……

This afternoon: put my steam-wagon’s axle back on the chassis, after a lot of detail improvements. Oh, and correcting having put one wheel on back to front. (They are slightly unsymmetrical.)

Finished in time for a clean-up, brew and off to the club to join others helping a recently-joined member sort out the assorted parts for his locomotive boiler’s fittings. He’d acquired it unfinished, with a still-shiny new commercially-made boiler, but with no drawings.

[Sonic Escape]

On Sonic Escape Said:

I discovered that there is a nice public library 100m from my home. You just go inside, pick any book you want and start to read it. You don’t need any permit if you don’t take it home. Also is more effective to learn Spanish in this way than by reading some boring grammar book. I hated school. The book on the left is quite interesting. And since the technical books have a more reduced vocabulary I can understand around 70% of the text. To be fair it has also a lot of pictures that help. Overall a very nice place to relax.

If you know English, Spanish is not too hard. Both go back to the Romans in large part.

Great that you have a local library with technical books. It’s becoming a thing of the past in many places where in this day and age, making a cup of coffee is considered a skilled trade.

[Nigel Graham 2Participant @nigelgraham2]

LOST:

Tank, Water, Steam-Wagon.

Approx 14 X 9 X 6 inches with hand-pump, cover, large filler and mounting-angles.

Brass rivetted and soft-soldered.

 

I know I am not too domesticated. I know I can put a screwdriver with a bright red handle down, go to use it three minutes later but not see it for the next three hours.

But a bloomin’ great, unpainted, brass tank?

I had fitted its hangars back on the chassis, returned to the house to collect the tank…. Like Michael Flanders’ French Horn, it had gorn.

Not in the workshop.

Not in the kitchen and en-suite bathroom. (It’s a long way at 3am!)

Not in the middle room among the lorry’s coal-bunkers, tank pipe-work, tools, ruined drawing-board and more stuff under the sofa.

Not in the front-room among ditto.

Not in the bedroom, between the wagon woodwork, bed and more …. Not in the spare bedroom (you get the message).

I’ve not investigated the loft, which does carry a stock of materials, but am sure I’d not have put it up there. Nor have I taken it away from home.

I searched again and again, no luck.

Losing a few screws (or marbles) or the last 5mm drill maybe; but how can anyone mislay a big item like that tank?

 

I don’t want to have to make another, but that looks horribly inevitable…..

 

[DiogenesParticipant @diogenes]

Have you found it yet?

..I actually managed to make some chips..

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

I know what they are but I don’t know where Nigel left his tank!

[DiogenesParticipant @diogenes]

..feels good to have made a start..

[Nicholas FarrParticipant @nicholasfarr14254]

Hi, when needs must! what else can one do?

Regards Nick.

[DiogenesParticipant @diogenes]

What are you making there, Nicholas?

[Nicholas FarrParticipant @nicholasfarr14254]

Hi Diogenes, it’s a fairly simple thing, but I don’t want to revel what it is at this time. If it works out ok, I hope to show it at the MMEX exhibition, but I found the piece that I’ve shaped up, hiding in the top part of the photo below.

Regards Nick.

[Pete.Participant @pete-2]

Took delivery of a couple of new toys, a nice Bison 5c collet chuck I picked up for half the retail price,  and cut knurler I’ve been after for a long time but at £800 with the knurling wheels it was just out the question new, luckily found one a lot cheaper used, now I have one I’m going to make a scaled down version for the mini lathe as this’ll only fit on the big lathe with a 25mm shank, be a nice little project and doesn’t look too complicated to replicate having the angles to copy.

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