Things you always wanted to know the answer to [Vol. 5]
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psi310398 said:
The problem is compounded by the fact that I’m the freeholder of a building with three subsidiary leases so I get three to four times the amount of guff that others might.
There's your issue. Print-based direct mail is a fraction of what it once was and most people will notice receiving much less than even five years ago. I can therefore understand your frustration but you have to accept that your situation is the exception to the norm. hidetheelephants said:
he tapered bit looks like it has a screw thread; perhaps a lamp fitting with the tapered bit to screw into a wooden base? Or if it's just rough then perhaps glued in place. Quarter inch is a bit skinny for a lamp holder though.
On the whole it's more likely part of a trammel like has already been suggested. Perhaps it's been made as a workshop exercise, is there a FE college nearby with a workshop?
Thank you. On the whole it's more likely part of a trammel like has already been suggested. Perhaps it's been made as a workshop exercise, is there a FE college nearby with a workshop?
The taper is not threaded though - it's a series of machined steps.
There's no CoFE close by, but the Grammar school used to have a small machine shop. I bought their old pillar drill when they got rid of it, plus a couple of small bench grinders.
I thought about a depth gauge using a round bar through the centre, but I think it's unlikely because the diameter of the head of the screw projects beyond the plane of the flat surface so it would not seat on the workpiece.
Also the bore is not accurately perpendicular to the flat surface. I found a straight piece of hardwood dowel which is a close fit and rotated the assembly slowly in the pillar drill and there is noticeable run-out.
I've probably obsessed over it long enough now - I'm going to chuck it in the scrap box no matter what it does to my OCD.
Thanks though.
Abbott said:
Error_404_Username_not_found said:
With a 6mm graduated rod through the centre could it be some sort of depth gaugehttps://www.gassafetyshop.co.uk/products/AntonDept...
Cotty said:
Abbott said:
Error_404_Username_not_found said:
With a 6mm graduated rod through the centre could it be some sort of depth gaugehttps://www.gassafetyshop.co.uk/products/AntonDept...
Cotty said:
Abbott said:
Error_404_Username_not_found said:
With a 6mm graduated rod through the centre could it be some sort of depth gaugehttps://www.gassafetyshop.co.uk/products/AntonDept...
I happen to know a gas engineer too. Services my boiler every year.
Error_404_Username_not_found said:
Here's a thing I've genuinely wanted to know for a long time, though not "always".
What is this thing?
I found it lying in the driveway one night about three years ago when I was walking the dog, and it has been sitting on my bookcase ever since. I didn't want to bin it until I found out.
It's machined (not particularly finely) from stainless steel, probably fairly low grade like 304 or maybe 310. 40mm overall length, 23mm overall diameter and has a parallel bore of 6.3mm.
The knurled-head screw has a major diameter of 0.28mm, but I haven't measured the pitch. Nearest thing I can find for the screw would be 7/64" but my Zeus is in my workshop and I CBA looking it up.
I mean, WTAF??
Bet someone knows!
Looks a bit like a vernier caliper to me.What is this thing?
I found it lying in the driveway one night about three years ago when I was walking the dog, and it has been sitting on my bookcase ever since. I didn't want to bin it until I found out.
It's machined (not particularly finely) from stainless steel, probably fairly low grade like 304 or maybe 310. 40mm overall length, 23mm overall diameter and has a parallel bore of 6.3mm.
The knurled-head screw has a major diameter of 0.28mm, but I haven't measured the pitch. Nearest thing I can find for the screw would be 7/64" but my Zeus is in my workshop and I CBA looking it up.
I mean, WTAF??
Bet someone knows!
Cotty said:
Doofus said:
If I'm logged into PH and I look at What's New, the threads all have half as many pages as they do when I'm not logged in.
Why?
You have obviously changed your page length in your Forum Preferences. When not logged in your are looking at the default page length.Why?
Cotty said:
Abbott said:
Error_404_Username_not_found said:
With a 6mm graduated rod through the centre could it be some sort of depth gaugehttps://www.gassafetyshop.co.uk/products/AntonDept...
hidetheelephants said:
Good sleuthing!
Its not really me. I discovered a while ago that you can drag a picture into Google and get it to search that. It easier when you have two screens and just drag the picture from one screen to the other. Use the little guides to focus on the bit on the picture you want to search and bobs your uncle.Fermit said:
I have an Adblock browser extension. Why, when certain sites (CAR online, Autocar, Mansfield Chad for EG) prompt you to allow ads, do they not recognise you have, after going in to Adblock and ticking 'always pause on this site' Windows 11 if any relevance.
This is just a guess on my part, but I suspect that they have code that detects that you have Adblock but do not have the ability to detect that you have disabled Adblock, As an alternative, try using the Brave browser. It's based on Chrome and has ad blocking baked in and is much harder for websites to detect. You don't have to run it as your main browser or anything, just use it for problematic sites.
Clockwork Cupcake said:
This is just a guess on my part, but I suspect that they have code that detects that you have Adblock but do not have the ability to detect that you have disabled Adblock,
As an alternative, try using the Brave browser. It's based on Chrome and has ad blocking baked in and is much harder for websites to detect. You don't have to run it as your main browser or anything, just use it for problematic sites.
Go to know, I'll download it and see if it works. As an alternative, try using the Brave browser. It's based on Chrome and has ad blocking baked in and is much harder for websites to detect. You don't have to run it as your main browser or anything, just use it for problematic sites.
Are signatures still a thing for "young people"?
When I was 11 or 12 (or thereabouts) I spent ages 'designing' and practicing my signature, which was essentially my name and a squiggly flourish. My friends all did the same (with the onpwn names).
By the time I was 20, I'd developed a heiroglyph/monogram that, 35 years later, I'm still rather pleased with.
Last night, I signed a restaurant bill in the hotel at which I was staying, and it occurred to me that I'm not sire I can remember the last time I signed anything other than to pay household bills in France.
Given the demise of cheques, credit card draft slips, handwritten letters and so on, do the yoot' actually have signatures, or do they just write their names in their usual handwriting. Come to that, does anyone? Am I unusual in having a sginature that actually more of a symbol than anything legible?
When I was 11 or 12 (or thereabouts) I spent ages 'designing' and practicing my signature, which was essentially my name and a squiggly flourish. My friends all did the same (with the onpwn names).
By the time I was 20, I'd developed a heiroglyph/monogram that, 35 years later, I'm still rather pleased with.
Last night, I signed a restaurant bill in the hotel at which I was staying, and it occurred to me that I'm not sire I can remember the last time I signed anything other than to pay household bills in France.
Given the demise of cheques, credit card draft slips, handwritten letters and so on, do the yoot' actually have signatures, or do they just write their names in their usual handwriting. Come to that, does anyone? Am I unusual in having a sginature that actually more of a symbol than anything legible?
Doofus said:
Are signatures still a thing for "young people"?
When I was 11 or 12 (or thereabouts) I spent ages 'designing' and practicing my signature, which was essentially my name and a squiggly flourish. My friends all did the same (with the onpwn names).
By the time I was 20, I'd developed a heiroglyph/monogram that, 35 years later, I'm still rather pleased with.
Last night, I signed a restaurant bill in the hotel at which I was staying, and it occurred to me that I'm not sire I can remember the last time I signed anything other than to pay household bills in France.
Given the demise of cheques, credit card draft slips, handwritten letters and so on, do the yoot' actually have signatures, or do they just write their names in their usual handwriting. Come to that, does anyone? Am I unusual in having a sginature that actually more of a symbol than anything legible?
I think you might find that they don't actually use handwriting for anything any more. AFAIK, everything is typed now.When I was 11 or 12 (or thereabouts) I spent ages 'designing' and practicing my signature, which was essentially my name and a squiggly flourish. My friends all did the same (with the onpwn names).
By the time I was 20, I'd developed a heiroglyph/monogram that, 35 years later, I'm still rather pleased with.
Last night, I signed a restaurant bill in the hotel at which I was staying, and it occurred to me that I'm not sire I can remember the last time I signed anything other than to pay household bills in France.
Given the demise of cheques, credit card draft slips, handwritten letters and so on, do the yoot' actually have signatures, or do they just write their names in their usual handwriting. Come to that, does anyone? Am I unusual in having a sginature that actually more of a symbol than anything legible?
Doofus said:
Are signatures still a thing for "young people"?
When I was 11 or 12 (or thereabouts) I spent ages 'designing' and practicing my signature, which was essentially my name and a squiggly flourish.
That's a really interesting question. I don't know the answer but begs a second one, where do signatures come from?When I was 11 or 12 (or thereabouts) I spent ages 'designing' and practicing my signature, which was essentially my name and a squiggly flourish.
Like you, I conceptualised, designed and developed mine during double Physics over several terms. But did everyone do that? I can't ever recall anyone telling me that I'd need a signature in life so get designing!
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