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Bob, maybe you inspired him :2tsup:
I must investigate the Hercus sub forum some more as I hadn't seen that thread, or your post. I guess there's just not enough hours in the day to visit...

Hey Bob,
That's a nice job you've done on the QCTP. I like the modification on the movable wedge shaft (I'm assuming you got inspiration from the same website that I did - although I'm not sure...

Hi Dave,
You are right about knurling aluminium - I go slowly and use a light touch with a wire brush so the chips don't clog the knurls. I know the lathe can take it, it just seems sort of wrong...

Thanks, Dave. I have on my project list a scissor-type knurler to make. I had to really push the knurler in hard to get an even knurl on that aluminium, which I don't like doing - although I was...

Hi Bryan,
Thank you - although using aluminium was a bit of a cheat as it's so easy to work and getting the finish was easy with an HSS tool bit (1/4" in my Hafco AL340A).
Thanks, Dave. I've been...

Meant to say: good luck with the Alpina! Sad to see a number of marques of my yoof gone. Bultaco, Montesa, Maico. Obviously a lot before my time too.

Hi Russell,
A lot of what you see in that picture was courtesy of Don Newell in Brisbane. I was living in Tamworth at the time. I don't know if Don is still around. I cleaned up the frame and had it...

Hi Russell,
It's a long story. It was a 1975 Pursang 250. Bought it as a wreck off a farm for $500 in 1995. Spent about #4K on it and sold it in 2002 for $2300. Hey, I made $1800 on it :D
Sold it...

Here are the last 3 pictures - should make it clearer. And it seems to work fine now, so I can get back to welding. Cheers, Richard

I used two longer 6 mm SHCS to hold the inner bits for milling. I drilled and tapped a piece of flat steel and screwed them down (had tapped the aluminium parts as well and milled a recess for the...

The problem with the original parts is that they are plastic. I used them as a template, but I must say thinking about it, sketching it and doing it again a few times took a while because I'd realise...

G'day all,
I have a Speedglas 9002X auto darkening helmet and it's great except for the fact that it wouldn't stay propped up when I lifted it up to say check a weld. It got to the stage where I'd...

Back in the mid 1990s an oral surgeon I know well, told me the particular Ti (single tooth) implants that he used cost him $500 each. If you touched them with bare hands you would contaminate the...

Bob, it sounds like the worst is behind her. It's a bit counter intuitive, but most people have more post op discomfort after their lower wisdom teeth are removed than from the lower jaw osteotomies....

Titanium alloys will "osseointegrate" as rfurzer says above. This is just the ticket for dental implants placed to accept crowns, bridge abutments and dentures. They are extremely difficult to...

Just found this.

I have an AL340A from Hare & Forbes. I was told to use Tellus 32 in the gearboxes & carriage and Tonna 68 as a slideway's oil. Some time ago another member suggested Tonna 32 in cold climates and 46...

Hi Stewart,
Yes, it's the AL340A. The plastic coolant "hose" was difficult to adjust finely for position and it leaked I think. It was messy IIRC.
The plastic handles were replaced because one was...

I paid $4295 and then it went up big time. Now it's $5 cheaper than when I bought it.
We remade some ally handles to replace the horrid plastic ones (went in to H&F Brisbane yesterday and there are...

I own a 340A, since May, 2005. I bought it part way through a Tafe course on machining. I looked for geared head; mass/rigidity; a decent throw; spindle diameter; footbrake.
Problems: 1st had to...

Here are some links.
Miller - Resources - TIG Handbook
http://www.millerwelds.com/pdf/gtawbook.pdf
http://www.diamondground.com/HowtoPrepareElectrodes.pdf...

Hi all,
I have used various tungsten electrodes as Grahame has described – thoriated for steel/stainless and zirconiated on aluminium at Tafe on a variety of machines (the best being a Kemppi 3...

I'll second what Pipeclay said.

The Lincoln SP170T is a great little welder for the price. I bought mine for about $1000 new in 2002.

My only gripe is that the trigger is too sensitive.

$850...

Hi Pulse,

I've been putting together some bits and pieces to build a box trailer. It will be approx 1220 x 2100 mm, unbraked ATM 750 kg.

The threads posted here have been so helpful, and Yonnee...

Totally unacceptable and potentially unsafe.

My TAFE experiences over 5 years (02-06) proved how underfunded and demoralising the system could be.

Things were run down, some machines were out...

Hi Viking,

I'm sure you'd find a course at Tafe in Sydney. I did 2 years of machining here in Tamworth in 06-07, Tuesday nights 5.30 to 9.30. It taught me so much more than the stuff I read in...

Hear hear,

The day you stop learning, you're dead.

And metal is magic, innit? :D

[QUOTE=Fossil;705893]You are better off truing up the table with a shaper IMO.

Hi Fossil,

I bow to your greater wisdom :-

We didn't have one of those at TAFE, but my son used one at school....

Hi Bodgy,

TAFE is the go! If you get flexible teachers (not the Yoga class) they might let you bring in some stuff like your bandsaw table, which you might true up with a surface grinder for...

Great job Dazzler. Very professional.
As my old man used to say, "looks just like a bought one".:2tsup:

You can teach yourself, if you get some really good information — from books, the WWW, a mate — but if the information is dodgy, you'll be led up the garden path, barking up the wrong tree.
I did a...

It's a great book. Here in Tamworth, if you join the student association at TAFE, you get 10% off the price. Mine cost $60 something 3 years ago. Whether this is true for all NSW I don't know.
I...

I have it on good authority that this is true.

A friend of mine lived near the Dick family.

Named their daughter Ophelia. :o

Hi Ken,

Please keep posting, it's great stuff. I'm saving and filing it away.

Even if someone, sometime is inspired to use your ideas in making something different, then it's been really...

I'd admit to liking many of those mentioned.

Only got 8,400 + on my iPod:;

No-one mentioned Mott The Hoople or Ian Hunter.

The Killers are great too.

Cheers,

Hi Ken,

Nice work, and thanks for the drawing.

I'm looking forward to the next one :)

Regards,

Richard

Hi GJR,

I too have an AL340A.

I was like you, expecting my 16 mm toolholders to line up the cutting tip on centre, just like the bigger lathes I'd used at TAFE. I put this to one of my...

Hi Ding,

Good to hear you're enjoying it. I was the same when I got my little Lincoln.

I did what Grahame suggested and built a trolley to put the machine down low with a table (ply top) over...

Hi all,

I have the same mill and luckily I measured the height of the roller door before we went down to H & F in Sydney. The mill comes with the head rotated, 2 machines to a pallet. They cut the...

Blackwoods sell some in a litre bottle. I guess you could put it in a cheap plastic spray bottle. Sorry I can't remember the name of it or the price.

Richard

I started welding at Tafe in 2002, 4 hours on a Tuesday night. By week 3 I was about to chuck it in. It wasn't fun - but it was supposed to be!!:((

My wife kindly allowed me to spend the money on...

My Hafco lathe uses Tellus 32 in the gearboxes and Tonna S 68 on the ways.

see here.


I'm sure there are lots of alternatives, but I decided to stick with what's in the "manual". I was also...

Here is a free download. Not a to-do book exactly, but it has lot's of info.

link

Regards,
Richard

Right now lots of the Killers (Hot Fuss & Sam's Town). Plus lots of Ian Hunter especially Rant; now Shrunken Heads (just released). kd land hymns of the 49th parallel. martha wainwright. The arcade...

Grahame,

That's a great method for building an anvil. I've been meaning to get a round tuit for a while, but have been making do with 18" of railway track my father gave me.

I spoke to a bloke...

Just looked up my owner's manual for the SP 170-T.

It says 20% at 130 amps. Don't think it gives other figures 'though.

Might assume 70 - 80% at 25 amps?

It's certainly not a production...

It's a good book all right. New at TAFE it's about $70.

The Course Modules for each machining/metalworking/welding are usually more detailed and cost $12 to $20+ dollars depending on size.

When...

Hi all,

I bought a Hafco AL 340A in May 2005 after considering pretty much what others have considered on this forum. One thing I wanted was a foot brake, plus it came with coolant and a light...

Hi WB,

I should have expressed it better :)

The Dotars link is the exact same stuff I got from the RTA on paper. Could I find it on the RTA site? I searched and searched and got dozens of pages...

Hi Dazzler,

I got some stuff from the RTA here in Tamworth. Just found the major one on the web - http://www.dotars.gov.au/roads/publications/pdf/roads_vsb_01.pdf.
The RTA website should cover...