FS: Wife, two cats... Erm...

.... possibly one arse.

It's just that I suddenly find myself in need of some money.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4572920229

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and Ducati Race Engineer.

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Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000

 

Wicked Uncle Nigel wrote

You'll never get it in the panniers.

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Bindit 600 (was lost and now is found)
GS500E (small but perfectly formed)
mongvan (dehydrated)

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, steve auvache

You're missing the point.

I could make a fifth wheel hitch.

<thinks>

Technically a third wheel hitch, I suppose.

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and Ducati Race Engineer.

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Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000

 

steve auvache said...

Some sort of towing attachment for the bling mobile possibly.

 

<drool>

**** me, it's amazing what you find on the Yanqui surplus market.

 

Wicked Uncle Nigel wrote

No, I don't think I am.

I tell you what would be good, you could drill little holes in the tow
ball and put leds in.

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750 VT Shadow (something for the weekend)
Bindit 600 (was lost and now is found)
GS500E (small but perfectly formed)
mongvan (dehydrated)

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, steve auvache

You're just being silly now.

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and Ducati Race Engineer.

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SBS#39 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000

 

Wicked Uncle Nigel wrote

Actually you are right, the leds should be on the cover.

I blame motorcycle maintenance and repair manuals. Especially those
made by Mr Clymer.

I have never had one of those before and the VT come with one and I have
been having a read of it.

One thing I note is the phrase, "the removal procedure of [whatever] is
described elsewhere in this chapter."

No it fucking ain't!! Or if it is it ain't fucking indexed!

I swear I have read every word of chapter 8 ten times and I simply
refuse to read past the second part of chapter 3 ever again. Not going
to happen.

<twitch>

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Bindit 600 (was lost and now is found)
GS500E (small but perfectly formed)
mongvan (dehydrated)

 

Nah. Once you discoveredthat the machinery really needed to be bolted down to
a nice solid concrete floor to stop those nasty vibration patterns appearing
all over you new shiny components, you'd be left with a damned expensive tin
shed on wheels.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, tallbloke

Really? You want to tell that to the blokes wot used to turn out nice
new bits for submarines in WWII. On lathes. In submarines.

Not noted for concrete floors, your average submarine.

Come to think of it, none of my machines are bolted down either. And
they seem to do OK.

Still, if you know better, I'll take your word for it.

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and Ducati Race Engineer.

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Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Wicked Uncle Nigel amazed us all with this pearl
of wisdom:

And they call /me/ a pervert!

 

Support vehicle for the North Africa Campaign.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, platypus

*Exactly*. It even comes already camouflaged.

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and Ducati Race Engineer.

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SBS#39 Enfield 500 Curry House Racer "The Basmati Rice Burner",
Honda GL1000K2 (On its hols) Kawasaki ZN1300 Voyager "Oh, Oh, It's so big"
Suzuki TS250 "The Africa Single" Yamaha GTS1000

 

Machines in subs would be bolted to the hull. And that's surrounded with a
nice fluid damping unit called an ocean...

Also, ITYF that subs do have concrete floors[1], it helps keep the conning
tower uppermost. ;-)

[1]Or at least some kind of dense ballast material.

 

Do you want to explain to me (as briefly as possible please) exactly
how I make my living doing in-situ machining where none of the
machines are bolted onto concrete? Don't even consider claiming that
the components we machine are securely bolted down because half the
time the reason we're working on them is that they've been smashed up
in some way and aren't secured to anything.

Your knowledge of machining practices leaves a lot to be desired.

 

Your knowledge of the kind of machining I've done is none existent.

I may be wrong but I'd guess the components you're making are mostly from
bar stock and tube and are of a relatively low mass compared to the weight
of the machine you make them on.

I'm sure you'll tell me I'm completely wrong in order to maintain your
image as a balshy rude argumentative twat. ;-)

My experience is probably of heavier machines than you use, and more of
machining large cast components which aren't perfectly balanced until the
dynamic balancing guys with the air grinders work on 'em after I've
finished my bit. A lot of the parts I've machined weigh in excess of 3
tonnes, and I'm fully qualified in maunual, hydraulic, and NC/CNC CAD/CAM.
I am fully time served as well as having an HNC in mech and prod eng. I'm
also a registered engineer.[1]

Oh and by the way, I've made components for subs both military and non
military, though I did so in a factory where the machines were bolted to
the concrete floor in accordance with all the safety regs I've ever read.


[1]so GFY you sneering ****.

 

All I've said is that your knowledge leaves a lot to be desired.

Wrong. Very, very wrong.

But you are wrong....

3 tonnes? We use chainblocks that weigh more than that just to hold
the stuff we're machining in position.

I can't be bothered with a how high can you piss competition but I'm
confident that companies such as RR industrial power don't
specifically ask for me to work on their machines without a good
reason.

That's nice for you. It's a bit more complicated when you have to
machine parts of said submarines once they've been assembled and are
sitting in a dry dock. They don't actually finish the important bits
like stern tubes until after they've been put in place and if you'd
actually read my original post you'd know that that's what I do.

When you've got a few minutes would you mind finding me a link to
somewhere showing the safety regs that say machine tools have to be
bolted to a concrete floor.

Sneering? I don't think so, all I said was that your knowledge of
machining left a lot to be desired but now I'll change that to say
that it appears to be very limited. That's worse in case you're in any
doubt.

 

Which is why I'm calling you a sneering ****.

Well if you're machining the sterntube of a sub then I can see it'd need
holding with heavy tackle in dry dock. It probably won't vibrate much
either since it's mass is in high ratio to the component you're machining.
Which is what I said isn't it?

Would you like to show how what you said in your original post makes it
evident to a reader that you machine submarine stern tubes for a living?

I think that comes across to most people as sneering.

 

That's 'woodland' though, Sirs would be advised to paint it the '3 color
desert' scheme.

 

No it isn't what you said. You said that machines had to be firmly
secured to a concrete base and that isn't true. That was the point at
which you left yourself open to my comment that your knowledge left a
lot to be desired.

Do you want to explain to me (as briefly as possible please) exactly
how I make my living doing in-situ machining where none of the
machines are bolted onto concrete? Don't even consider claiming that
the components we machine are securely bolted down because half the
time the reason we're working on them is that they've been smashed up
in some way and aren't secured to anything.

end of quote.

I don't make my living solely machining stern tubes, that's just a
small part of what I do. A larger part is designing 'portable' machine
tools that can be transported anywhere in the World and used to
machine components that can't for any reason be removed and taken to a
machine shop.

A lot of our work is carried out on smaller stuff where the weight of
our equipment is very close to the weight of the component being
machined but that component can't be taken away for access reasons. We
often have to unbolt said component and lift it a couple of feet to
get more access and then we machine it with it still hanging on
chainblocks or just sitting on blocks of timber. The important thing
is how well you mount your equipment to the component, everything else
is irrelevant.

So correcting an obviously incorrect statement is sneering? Guess I
must be guilty as charged.

Where's the link to the safety regs btw?