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thanks all for the info. greatly appreciated...

(i am now to hard of hearing, and they dont put captions on such shows)

regards

Sandy

was watching an Australian WW2 film on Australian Aircraft Production.

they showed a very soft metal that melted in boiling water and flowed like solder.

they were using it to bend metal...

Oh... I am in rapture. thanks so much for posting these. I love early Aircraft.

(When I was a kid I "helped" restoration of the Albatros DVa now in the AWM, and have left them ever since...)

I...

Hi, good question. used a high powered neodiym magnet, with attracted to it, click, but did not grip it. so "slightly Magnetic".

from a Photographic processor. should have been 316 stainless...?...

promised to show what that dam flood water did. here is a pic of two Stainless steel rods. (not chromed)

The rusted one shows the top side, of where the 'sediments settled on the bar as the waters...

Hi, simply gave the lathe and mill away. dont know if I will replace them.

have order two 5L bottles of that rust stuff mentioned above. will see how it goes. to see if I can rescue the tools...
...

From my, once very large Photo file, now lost to the Ipswich floods.

early gear milling lathe. cop all the 'arm ripping of belts' in the background... no wonder there are so many early photos of...

Thanks to all for the info, much appreciated...

(Still in Shock... 40 years a photographer, and not a photo to show for it, 10,000 books/mags are papermache in the shed, still dont have the heart...

Hi, no doubt there have been many a thread on this BB.

My house & tool shed when under in the Jan floods.. (till now have been rather busy doing up the house)

My lathe & mill had set solid, so...

Shock eeek horror...

not a cnc machine in sight... all cam controlled lathes... can you imagine programming that...!!!:D

Just shows how great the early engineers really were...

BUT, the down...

Hi, this may not help, but it wont hurt.

I go to a large plastic items manufacturing/fabricator company in Bulimba, Qld. they have very large recycle bins where they dump their of cuts from the...

Although a reciprocating saw with teeth may work, it will tend to clog up on the sinue. It will work on the bone excellently.

Most Abattoirs use VERY large circular saws. and on smaller items they...

there is a shop called "Reverse Garbage" in South Brisbane. they sell odds and ends, and business off cuts of just about anything, and one thing they get cheaply is the off-cuts of the clear plastics...

I was on a flight into sydney one day, and there was a rather 'inebriated' football team on the plane...

we hit some turbulents just as we cam in over Hornsby, and then a big jolt..

at that...

I am dumbfounded how much of Australian history is covered up..

below are Russina Troops IN Sydney. that is the Art Gallery of NSW they are outside of

and also the troops that fought the Gun...

slight side track on Phosgene.

My grandfather (maternal) was Phosgene gassed in 1915. he ended up loosing a lung, but was patched up sent back to the front to work as an ambulance driver.

Later...

Hi,

all you need is a spare RH die nut.
cut it up to have one of the internal teeth cutters,
and use it as a coventry bit.
you will have to hold it a negative doubling of the threads ...

I watched a guy squash his hand a flat as a pancake one day as a young kid. (under a bootmakers 'clicking' machine, used for cutting out leather patters from cow hides.)

Strangley, health and...

"As for the rest of your acknowledged rant I am seriously at a loss to get my head around it. Its like some shakespearean play of love gone wrong"

more George Orwell meets Shakespeare during...

just to show that nothing can stop a practical man (not even termites)

regards, Sandy

though I would throw these in just to show what they could do with the little horsepower that had available in those days...

Regards, Sandy

Funny story. I was doing some product photography at a large engineering workshop near Eagle farm, Brisbane in the 1980's.

next thing the foreman was giving this young apprentice a real bawling...

some more nice old machines to look at :2tsup:

Regards, Sandy

(and my guess Camoco's Town was Lithgow.?!:no:)

it took me six months to scan and retouch 90+ photos for a display that almost no one turned up for. (just three shots of 11 walls shown)

I auctioned the prints off after the show, and despite...

Hi, my collection wil be auctioned off. My friend the former chairman of Christies has offered because of the importance of my collection, but over a dozen items are world unique, and thus not let...

As for work place health and saftey...

If I am going to die, it will be of miss adventure, or miss 1996 or miss Brazil... :p

not because some doctor made a wrong disgnosis or put the needle in...

Hi, the big joke is my collection is as large as it is BECAUSE of places like the qld museum.

My big item, the worlds largest wooden camera left in existence, was offered free to the qld museum....

sorry that this may be off topic, but you have started me on on of my rants, and, apologies, as it is not aimed at you...

many people have no idea what is going on behind the scenes in many places...

they would probably have jacked it up. as in the photo below.

but could you imagine the chore that would be... without a crane..

the engineering they did in the victorian times still keep on...

Hi,

this is the really heavy cast iron "thingy" i was talking of.

hate to think how much it actually weighed. or how they would have picked it up if it broke an axle on the road. as there are...

just also had to share these also. (Sydney late 1890's or early 1900's)

even though they are blurred and out of focus.

clearly they were taken because of a safety issue.

but would you look...

just a few more.

would you balance on a plank infront of great "Leg crushing gears" ?????? (what was he thinking of.. certainly not his own safety)

or put such heavy steel loads on wooden cart...

I broke a part on a GMC drop saw once. the parts was a cast ali alloy.

and since I used alumaloy from soldering aluminium alot, I thought I would fix it easily.

turns out the alloy used by GMC...

from my historical collection. (Somewhere in NSW in the late 1890's)

Health and saftey clearly was not a priority pre WW1.

no wonder you see so many images of people missing arms and limbs. let...

I did the MIG Welding course at the Bundamba TAFE.
can highly recommend it.:2tsup:
they also had lots of lathes there, but could not find any courses that used them at all.!?!>:?
they are doing...

Quote "... Machines do it a meter away..."

I would like to se anyone who can operate a lathe or mill at a meter away... or am I the only short #### who does metalwork..

many have their have...

what would you rather listen too... High pitch metal cutting... or some soft music.

ever tried cutting aluminum with a drop saw... (fingernails down a blackboard done even come close...)

the...

Hi, OHSA sounds as if it is a safety hazard in its own right... going deaf from the machinery may lead to not hearing any alarms also..

have you measured the decebils of some metal cutting, let...

Hi, metal work in my small shed is noisy, and dont want to go deaf too soon. (Who am I kidding , I am almost deaf now)

But I was wondering if anyone here has heard of ear muffs (headphone/ear...

hi, your link to the www.workingwithwood.com site doesnt work...

(Technology will be great, when they get it right... but not in my life time...)
regards, Sandy

Phosphoric acid on rust will make any iron into iron sulphide.!!?!?

and convert rust into FeSo4 wont it...

it wont remove the rust, juts convert it.

also Acid on wood, even mild with...

Hi, great info. appreciate all the feedback and ideas...

regards
Andy

Hi, what is that dam anti rust paper that tools are often wrapped in called...

cant google what I cant spell...

I am setting up a shelf of draws and though it may be a good idea to line the...

Hi, just wondering how you may stop the lathe jaws leaving their mark in a piece. (Ali.)

I may be over tightening it, but after being wacked in the face once when something came out of the jaws of...

Those kits look great. do you mind doing a follow up when you have it assembled as to how easy it was.

also is the kit JUST for the DRO, or does it also include some cables that would connect the...

"Technology will be great when they get it right... but not in my life time..."

Regards
Andy.

P.S. Living in Perth cant be all that bad with only a three hour time difference... we have a 100...

Hi, yes I know electricity is dangerous....

I have put my hand across live voltage on several occasion in the dark room, touching equipment with wet hands...

(one the flash was so bright that...

Hi,

I have seen where people wire two switches to the one light, and one can tun it on, and the other off, etc. (maybe not best explained. again I dont know what you call them)

I have set up a...

Hi, I checked out the Sars.com site, and they had a perfect setup... pity they just dont answer their emails...

thanks for replies.

Regards
Andy

Hi,

have just ordered the belt drive upgrade kit for my Sieg X2 mill. not arrived yet.

Thanks to all for the input.

regards,
Andy