alcazar

I did mine with Wickes Paintbrush Cleaner, the blue stuff, and flushed with soapy water. This was AFTER stripping it all down, obviously. And none was used anywhere NEAR the motor.

Every part was then either greased on moving surfaces, or sprayed and rubbed over with WD40 on exposed surfaces.

There were 3 60s through Scunthorpe yesterday afternoon:

 

60040 on 6E32 Preston - Lindsey empty bitumen

60009 on 6D49 Ferrybridge - Lindsey empty heavy fuel oil

60011 on 6D80 Neville Hill - Lindsey empty traction fuel

 

Add to that 60010 some time later on the return Jarrow tanks.

Are you FROM round there, then?

One through Scunny around 12.30 today, on empty tanks, heading towards Immingham.

Couldn't see the number as I was driving over a road bridge, and got but a brief glimpse, but the livery LOOKED like 60040.

I've only ever used one carbide tip tool, bought tyo make a thread. It broke early in the process. Never again, total waste of money.

Wow...........the ill-fated "Solario", first one to be withdrawn. Gone even before I got my first "Combine". Spent quite some time at Leicester GC.

Thanks for that Bertie-dog, I'll look into buying one.

 

Stephen.

Unfortunately, that one looks A LOT like the one RDG tools withdrew from sale.

At least two others are still selling the same tool on e-bay, so I'm loathe to buy unless sure.......

Maybe. The collet chuck for the lathe looks like this: (was going to post a pic but the e-bay sale has ended. Anyway, it has no taper, but a flange with three bolt holes, it would seem to be turned out of a piece of solid bar.

Thanks for that, Bertie, I'll look into Chronos for a parting tool then.

The collet chuck that came with the mill was different to the one for the lathe, which fits to the spindle with three bolts, like the chucks do. The mill one fit on a taper. Probably a Morse?

Sorry, double post. Can't find which one of those you mean, they go from £14 to £8..........

Bertie: my lathe is an Emco Compact 5. The only tools I have for it, apart from metric drills, are a set of 1/4" tool-steel ground tools, l/h, r/h and end, made for me by a friend I used to work with, (ie: ground to shape).

They work, but need to be shimmed up to centre height.

I'll try and take measurements off the lathe, like what size tool will fit, and the clearances you mentioned on the drawing, tonight, once the loft has cooled down a bit.

I'll also try and further identify the milling machine, but I do know it has a co-ordinate table with it. I have a collet chuck and full set of 25mm collets, but no LATHE collet chuck although there is one on e-bay at £56 at the moment. I could also do with a fine feed attachment for the milling machine, it has just a lever at the moment, like a pillar drill, which it greatly resembles. It also has a decent 0-10mm keyed chuck for drilling etc.

Thanks.

Right, here's a question.

At the moment, I don't even have a parting-off tool. (I use a hacksaw blade held on the rotating piece with enough pressure to cut it, then face it off if necessary..........and yes, I know it's dangerous )

I've oredered one off e-bay wityh an inserted blade, only to have the seller cancel as he's stopping selling them after having too much trouble with faulty items.

I've found others and e-mailed the seller to see if it will fit my lathe, but don't understand his reply.

Here's the item: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=350343469663&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

and this is what he said to my question: Please measure from where the tool sits in your toolpost to the centre of the chuck so i can check your capacity.

I asked if he meant from bottom of tool rest to centre height, and he replied: Sorry no, on your toolpost when you put your turning tools in this i need to know from where the tool sits to the centre of the lathe.

I STILL don't understand what he means:blink: Since my tool post MOVES on a cross slide, won't this value be meaningless?

I've also seen these: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250651033502&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

Can someone advise? Thanks.

Just had a look here: http://www.lathes.co.uk and it's very disappointing. I wanted to look at what they had to say about the Compact 5, but it's all about the Compact 8, the 5 gets a 2-line mention

Also, the milling machine I have doesn't even get mentioned :(

The only thing I've ever used the milling machine for is accurate drilling, I don't even own an end mill and wouldn't know where to start, or what type to buy.

Interesting stuff, Bertie, do you know anything about the Emco Compact 5 and it's associated milling machine and seperate co-ordinate table?

A lad I know who is a turner by trade says 3-jaw chucks are fit for the bin

He reckons use a 4-jaw for accuracy.

I can recommend Barnack Uk at Stamford, they do tools and bits for the Emco range.

Available on e-bay.

Nice to know I'm not going crackers. That was the THIRD weird thing to happen in under a week.

That's weird...........I'm sure the first time I looked, it was a Britannia

A tad shiny?

Nice photos Brian, especially the 06 in the dusk and snow.

Might be better scratch-building roofs out of brass sheet?

A day late- but a day of dental trauma yesterday intervened.

 

Saturday 12th April 1975 - Merrymaker trip to York

Bristol Parkway 46 001/015. Gloucester 25 145/205, 37 192, 47 447. Saltley 25 106/130/204, 47 138. Burton on Trent 20 005/038/131/136/138/160/194/199. Derby 08 455/590, 20 176, 45 047. York Station 45 016, 46 010, 47 550. York Depot 03 075/172/371, 08 062/245, 31 144/228, 37 015/031/111/114/221, 40 028/051/057/067/070/078/080/083/173, 46 035, 47 134/432/520/544 with 47 373, 55 006/010/015/022 passing. York station 08 540/559/769, 31 176/211, 37 005/071/094/107/305, 40 112/122, 45 019/063/133/143, 46 045/055, 47 365/418/459/460/523/551, 55 001-004/015/019. Derby 08 899 Burton on Trent 20 186, 47 381. Saltley 25 100/276/277, 47 214. Bristol Parkway 47 491.

 

Rather simplistic day to York and back which included the first time to recently opened NRM. We also managed to get a guided tour around York depot which included an engine room walk through and trip back down the yard in 40 070. Now THAT was impressive and very memorable, a cab ride in a whistler. We also saw ten Deltics in traffic in one afternoon, so really the golden age of diesel traction back in 1975. I must have lost some numbers as there are some mysterious omissions (for example where were the electrics at Birmingham?). Occasionally these tours would bypass BNS, perhaps that was one such day, but just can't remember.

 

Neil

Just seen this: We went on a few Merrymakers from Scunthorpe in Humberside, as was, in the early 70's, a few of which went through Birmingham. They ALWAYS took the avoiding line at Saltley, usually waiting at signals there for a crew change. If you were lucky you saw the occasional electric pass overhead, and once a Western coming off New street in the dark, heading to Saltley. It was a warm night and we had stood for ages, but we had powerful torches so the Western was captured for posterity.

What sticks in my mind is staring out of the carriage windows in the vestibule, window down, hoping something would come before we moved off. We heard the Western coming well before we saw it. Been to Cardiff, IIRC.

The neon sign, "Landore Street Carpets" also sticks in my mind for some reason. Wonder if they still exist?

Funny, the trips always came from Cleethorpes, and featured an Immingham crew to start with, but were almost always a 45, none of which were allocated to Immingham.

Glad to see the warflats finished...........now we can go back to some locos?

The 27 looks interesting, but might take a while: it only has one bogie, one cab, one side etc...........

Saw my first one on the Doncaster-Immingham line last week. 70003.

Ugly as hell and not making much noise on the flat next to the canal at Godnow Bridge, but got a good pic anyway.

The bigger the project..............

Puts me in mind of drainage and gas pipe channeling at the French house. It ALWAYS rains when I start digging

Fantastic modelling: the man in the digger looks REAL!!!!!