NickJ

I find the first frost of the winter to be quite a reliable battery tester /worked well for me this year //i'm told the repco style one that applies a load is the way to go

The flow meter will be calibrated for Argon, but as CO2 is roughly the same density, it will make no difference

Would it be right that the forgings are all pretty similar (if not identical origin) and the cost is to the amount of machining and finishing? Having been involved in making conrods, they are pretty high up on the simple but complex scale, cheap ones may work if they have a good process to shovel them out? The difficulty we had was linking every step, locating the stock, boring the gudgeon, pressing in the gudgeon pin bush, then re indexing to bore both ends parallel, without taper and then repeating that many times over. Even with some spendy gear we still measured up batches to sort into matching sets. In saying that, if I could get the raw forgings, i'd be giving it a hoon cos each step is pretty simple.

Run diesel in mine, not really potent enough but anything decent melts the pump

Hooooooly thread dredge! What advertising service is behind these ad bots, guessing its a webhost platform? Kinda amusing looking back that since then I have ended up in the CNC world and can now answer that question over a few different processes. @oldrx what are you after? I'm shifting my bigboy router back up at home as soon as this weather clears, within reason happy to fire parts through for OSers Also have contacts with a few small one man CNC outfits who can do anything else for a reasonable rate and be helpful at the same time

Just link to the relevant aliexpress page would be an easy improvement

Yep, Bunnings has bonus points with me for open 7 days, helpful as it correlates well to the most likely day to run out, Sunday.

Well, lets rip into it eh? Engine out Only took a few hours which was quite enjoyable, where's the catch I wonder, ahh, there it is Seems someone didn't want the cross member bolts coming undone, bit of an awkward wrestle eventually giving way to the 3' breaker bar Steering arm thought it would try a similar game, I had a lazy trick for that on a block of wood And then reality drops by, nothing bad, just that old demon scope creep. Plan was to pull out the cross member to sort a flogged out hole, realisation now is that if I want the engine bay painted in the future, it kinda should be done now. This sets the scene for replacing more bits, fixing more oil leaks and generally going a bit overboard. Which leaves me today with a very lightweight Lada Some would say not far off a bare shell

TiAl Targets? Neat! Haven't messed with that at all, while I won't put reactive materials in the lathe (Mg), many do it being sure to keep the swarf tray empty where possible and keep it far away from the workshop. Ti machines nice and isn't as much of a risk unless you're really careless

As in tool coatings?

Can cert plates be officially remade? Or would it be replaced with a donut if removal (officially, for restoration) caused damage?

Typical, the wingnut will make taking down the thread rack easier so we can put a dust cover on it when not in use.

Yep, standard sizes only unfortunately. Is for the gf's industrial sewing machine, back up is to fizz some scrap to a regular nut.

Anyone know where to find a M16 x 1.5 (metric fine) wingnut? Save me from custom making one pretty please

Filming high frame rates for more than a few minutes chews memory and is massively annoying to review, 1 hr of footage at 240fps will take 10hrs to review. Can you not split the analysis into smaller chunks?