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28th April 2014, 10:13 PM #46New Member
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Hello everyone,
I am a long time lurker on this site and I would like to register my interest in doing the scraping class. Early October would be fine be me. So count me as a definite.
It would be nice to meet some other like minded people
Regards
Mark
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28th April 2014, 10:52 PM #47SENIOR MEMBER
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John that's not a bad offer. On the up side, you have a scraper, I sold it to you. You wont be offending me, if you take up Richards offer. I've spent very limited time in his shop, its enjoyable. I woundn't be offending any one here, but Rich is our star student. He would have done more scraping this past 12 months than I have. I'd like to think that we helped to plant the seed, (little rural joke there), taught a few rights from wrong, and just gave enough in-sight to set forth.
Your more then welcome. Its only a 26 hour drive.
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28th April 2014, 11:50 PM #48Senior Member
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Early October is fine for me.
Cheers,
Bill
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29th April 2014, 12:02 AM #49Intermediate Member
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I will work in with that date thanks.
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29th April 2014, 12:13 AM #50Member
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If there's any vacancies left I would like to join in.
John
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29th April 2014, 06:38 AM #51SENIOR MEMBER
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I'm not offended Phil, in fact I have been going over the pics I took of the first class and I took more of Richards work than anything.
Damn that was a great weekend!
I have scraped a small cast iron surface plate, countless slide valves and quite a few bearings. I even made the leather wiper Marko told me I needed when doing bearings. It works a treat.
Phil
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29th April 2014, 07:24 AM #52Senior Member
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29th April 2014, 01:57 PM #53
I'd be interested in attending.
What is the object you scrape in class??…..Live a Quiet Life & Work with your Hands
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29th April 2014, 05:37 PM #54Pink 10EE owner
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It is a cast iron cube.. Cannot remember the dimensions as they are not all the same as we have a lot of trouble procuring them... But as a rough guide, I think they were 50, 75, 100...
They are deliberately machined out of square and parallel, so you get some basics of alignment scraping..
Also there is the initiation ceremony... The night before the class, GregQ took me to this club and said it was a secret scraping initiation ritual (he dropped me at the door then left to pick me up later).. There were lots of whips and handcuffs and leather and chains there.. Although there was no one else from the scraping class there and I am suspicious it may have been one of those clubs I have read about that cater for different tastes... I am but a simple country lad, and I am sure GregQ would not lead anyone astray so I will have to take his word on that...Light red, the colour of choice for the discerning man.
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29th April 2014, 05:49 PM #55SENIOR MEMBER
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30th April 2014, 03:34 PM #56
I saw the cubes in the video but also some Angle Plates and a Camel Back straight edge.
…..Live a Quiet Life & Work with your Hands
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30th April 2014, 03:57 PM #57GOLD MEMBER
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I think you'll find the angle plates were being used as a reference to square the cubes(2 4 6 blocks really, or there abouts)
Richard worked on a square(pictured above). Greg(?) on a Camel back.
Stuart
P.s. Richard I think I've finally come up with a way to fix that table without spending more money than the grinder is worth(time doesnt count lol)...... not that I'm really in need of it anymore.
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1st May 2014, 09:46 PM #58SENIOR MEMBER
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Its a brick of cast iron. More of a post to report, I've found stock. In Qld this time, the first two classes 2011 & 2012 we dragged it in from W.A. Rectangular cast iron bar isn't that easy to find in this country. Rounds are easiest.
Roughly they are 50 x 100 x 150. I take them out of 108 x 57 cast rectangular bar. I cut that to 150mm long. The other sizes float, I make them as big as I can. I just try to get under the skin, where its nice to scrap. I do try to make them all about the same, so that the metrtology gear set up, only needs a tweak. Be aware I machine them with errors, so there is some thing to correct.
It doesn't sound like much, but no one has ever finished all six sides in a weekend. It takes until Lunch Sat to get flat, then we do parallel, there after square /square /square. I' m convinced its the perfect size to get the most out of one weekend.
Regards Phil.
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11th May 2014, 04:43 PM #59Pink 10EE owner
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Just to keep you all in the mood...
I was cleaning up today, getting ready for a bit of a scraping class here, so decided to see if my eye was still in...
Looks like it might be..
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And then this little chap must also have been interested in scraping, so he/she came into the shed to watch from up high...
20140511_150021.jpgLight red, the colour of choice for the discerning man.
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11th May 2014, 05:08 PM #60Senior Member
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