Garage fitout.

I've seen your workshop. And yes, it's relatively easy to find all the
stuff you've dropped on the floor.

 

Good lighting, plenty of storage for keeping it tidy and a sealed
floor to reduce dust.

In my case, one out of three ain't bad.

I have, however, almost completed my new shed, so I'll be able to
finally clear a lot of the crap out of the garage, get a work bench
built and the lathe reassembled. Oh, and the pillar drill and bench
grinder mounted properly.

 

I used to have my pillar drill in the spare bedroom - too damp in the
shed and the garage was in a separate block with no power.

I found that jagged-edged bits of aluminium swarf stick to a carpet in
the same way that Velcro sticks together.

 

Cane says...

Isn't he a big-haired rock guitarist?

 

You can go up to 3hp on single phase..........If you want to run any pro air
tools, they will work on compressors less than 3hp, but they wont work very
well and the compressor will be running pretty much constantly.

k

 

Poodle. No, you fool, poodle *haired*.

 

Pip says...

I can be excused, I know nothing about this 'rock' music you youngsters
all seem to like nowadays.

Time for my cocoa I think.

 

Probably most likely to happen with synchronous motors because they
are (ahem!) synchronised with the mains frequency. It's possible that
today's fluoros use a longer-lived phosphor than in the past, tending to
average out the peaks in the lamp discharge from the 50 Hz AC excitation.
It used to be common back around the 70s for hi-fi turntables (remember
them?) to have three bands of alternating light and dark blocks around their
rims, illuminated by a neon lamp, so that you could use the stroboscopic
effect to adjust their speed to 78, 45, or 33-1/3 rpm.

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My turntable has that, but with four bands: 45 and 33-1/3 rpm at 50 and
60 Hz.

 

I used to have one of them, but I gave up smoking.

Shame, because sometimes the best thing to do was stand back from what
you were working on and think about it over a cigarette.

What's the healthy equivalent? I don't think eating a carrot would have
the same effect.

 

Many modern fluoro lights are running at substantially higher freqs than
50Hz, thanks to the wonders of 'lectronics.

 

Champ says...

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Is that a euphemism?

 

fx < yawn>

boring b**tard

 

Would you care to enlighten those of us who don't believe Yahoo Groups
rule the usenet world WTF you are talking about?

Oh, and it's spelt bastard BTW!

 

Blimey. The only Harris I've encountered was a good half tonne of
school workshop lathe, with auto-feed on *everything*.

One day...

 

You'll get your memory back and realise it was probably a Harrison
lathe, not a Harris. You'll also bin those rose tinted glasses and
realise that they were shit.

If you want a nice lathe with a name starting with an H then go for a
Hardinge. You can get them with loads of really nice attachments and
they go for sensible prices.

 

Ah.

Well, it seemed impressive to my schoolboy eyes. Harris. Oh yes, as in
bike frames. D'oh.

 

Meditation's what you need, as Roy Castle used to say.

 

I suppose it would work as a displacement activity, but there's not
enough room, and I'd rather ride a real bike anyway. Plus I can't
imagine it being very comfortable in the winter, when I'm all layered up
for working in a cold garage.

 

Obviously, he's talking about an arse (or perhaps out of it):

arris Noun. Buttocks, 'arse'. Convoluted Cockney rhyming slang for
'arse'; Arris, an abbreviation of Aristotle, rhyming with bottle, and
thereafter leading to bottle and glass rhyming with 'arse'. Also aris.