OneGuyFromBarlick

Hi Stanley, Yesterday I revisited Ellenroad, accompanied by a friend who had never been before. I was reminded how much we owe you (especially) and Newton for making sure this magnificent machine was preserved. I recall you writiing somewhere that there was a generator in the basement (500 kW comes ...

Hi Stanley, Thanks for the swift reply. I'm a bit surprised how low the LP inlet pressure was, but evidently enough to do the job. I will have a look for the photos, but before I do I seem to recall that there was a picture of you dozing in an armchair and the snapper being surprised at that. I know...

Hi Stanley, A couple of random questions for you. Maybe I'm not in the right sub-forum, but this is the one I watch daily for your updates... :smile: The first relates to mill engines. When you are running them in compound, the inlet to the HP cylinder is basically boiler pressure and the outlet fro...

Hi Stanley, One of the YouTube machinists I follow is a Finn, Lauri Vuohensilta. He does crazy stuff with a hydraulic press but also some serious machining in his father's commercial workshop. His latest video was about a visit to a museum in his home town, Tampere, where there is a preserved mill e...

Hi Stanley, I've been following your crankshaft construction with interest. In your latest post you said high performance commercial crankshafts were forged in one piece. That got me to thinking about a series of articles I read some time ago about Doxford's ship engines of Sunderland. It seems they...

Hi Stanley, Just wondering... As you are reaping loads of material off that lump of line shaft, does it warp? I've seen many references to steel bar moving as it is turned due to released stresses. Is this material subject to these stresses (set up, I believe, by the drawing process), or is it more ...

Hi Stanley,

Bad news about the credit card. I hope you are able to sort it all out.

Do you know how it happened? Is it something we need to be on the lookout for? This sort of thing is a right bugger.

Best wishes for the rest of the New Year.

Mick (in Hoyland)

Hi Stanley, On the latest video from David Richards (Old Steam Powered Machine Shop 21), he machines a length of wrought iron line shaft and he shows how poor the structure is compared to present mild steel shafting. Remined me of when you spoke about some wrought iron bar (old handrail?) you had th...

Hi Stanley,

I saw a file on the lathe with no handle. You wouldn't, would you......?

Just messing.

BR

Mick

Hi Stanley,

You could remove the tap by dissolving it. The recommended method in brass/bronze seems to be alum. Here is a discussion I found about a similar problem to yours:-
http://www.model-engineer.co.uk/forums/ ... p?th=66592

BR

Mick

Hi Stanley, Which video of John's are you referring to? Can you tell me the title and date so I can have a (re)look? I don't dare just start scrolling his videos or I'll be gone for days. I love the straightforward way he presents stuff. It encourages me to try things I'd normally be wary of doing. ...

Hi Stanley,

Looks like the fixing holes are not regularly spaced. I'd have expected them to be every 90 degrees for a four hole patttern, but the spacing just looks "strange". Is this an optical delusion or is there a good reason i'm not getting?

BR

Mick (Ossett, not Toon)

Hi Stanley, When you say Wortley, do you mean the one near Sheffield? I looked on the old ordnance survey map site and I see that there was "Wortley Iron Works" in an elbow of the River Don. The map sequence shows it active up to 1931 but disued by 1959. I see the modern maps list it as a ...

Hi Stanley,

Just watching the latest YouTube video by "Outside Screwball" and immediately thought of Johnny Pickles's lathes. You might enjoy watching this one:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B32tsRR2-J8

BR

Mick

Hi Stanley, I think I remember watching that spline cutting by Keith Fenner. I've seen him use the slotter attachment a few times. He calls it "The jumping Jack". Of course, the stroke is much shorter than on a conventional shaper, but the action is the same. Only thing that bothers me abo...

Hi Stanley, Dave Richards (Old Time Steam Powered Machine Shop) has posted a new video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WztXI8zG5mw In this he uses two shapers; a "small" one in his steam workshop, which looks similar to the ones I have seen in other workshops at about 10" stroke and ...

Hi Stanley, I was just catching up on the latest videos from John Doubleboost and Adam Booth on YouTube when I came across this guy, David Richards:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WXHNBMLZZM I don't know if you knew about him before, but his shop looks like it is out of the time of Johhny Pickles...

Hi Stanley,

Looking at the picture of that engine, it looks like the main bearing brasses are skewed round from the vertical. I've never noticed that before. Was it common and what is the reason for it?

BR

Mick

Hi Stanley, I can report success with the disc making. I cut a 12" length of 3"x1/16" mild steel sheet into 4 square(ish) pieces and chucked them up one at a time in the 4-jaw with the jaws reversed and pushing the plate firmly onto the outer step. I then attacked them with the bit fr...

Hi Stanley, The material is not the magnetic thing. I want to make discs of mild steel 52mm diameter from 1.5mm sheet. This will act as a backing plate to mount two sector shaped magnets recovered from dead hard drives. As John Doubleboost did, I intend to mount the magnets onto the discs with Arald...

Hi Stanley, Getting ready to go back into the shed again after a few days down with 'flu and I need some advice. I received some dial gauges from Arc Euro Trade and want to give them good, flat, steel backs (they come with lugged backs, attached by small screws) so I can attach magnets as used by Jo...

Hi Stanley, This kind of thing might suit:- http://www.megauk.com/carbide_drill_bits.php Just one of the top entries on Google when I searched for PCB drill bits, I have no connection to them. These are available in small sizes and are solid tungsten carbide as they are used to drill fibreglass prin...

Hi Ian, I realised my mistake immediately after posting my last reply, but wasn't sure of the correction. Doh! I managed the first time round from my private gallery but didn't remember the right sequence the second time. Let's try again. BR Mick http://oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/gallery/image.php?albu...

Hi Ian,

Thanks for the help. I dropped a copy of the photos into the Miscellaneous Subjects gallery. I'll link them in here so (hopefully) they get public visibility.

BR

Mick

Photos of the engine at Syke Ing Mill, Earlsheaton, Dewsbury

Hi Ian or Stanley,

Can you suggest a suitable public gallery to upload to? I don't want to mess about where I shouldn't...

BR

Mick