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Not sure if I should start splitting the posts - would like to keep the build history in one place, but as I am visually vociferous the post becomes rather large...Will do what is suggested... The Lathe bed turned out well, and the base framework is also started - The exercise now being to get the spindle motor positioned with regard to the drive belt, spindle, and motor tilt mechanism. The latter required as the motor will be fitted with a dual sheave pulley, one of 120mm OD and the step below , 80mm OD, giving max spindle RPM of 4000RPM and 2700RPM resp. I am hoping ( torque calcs indicate ...

Well at first i thought people are going to go well its 3.5" doh, but since when in life has any size that has been quoted is correct to that size? i have 2 size 9 shoes that are different :-D so i am taking 3.5" to be inside the rails and nothing to do with wheel track and also my question i suppose is 3.5" is it 88.9mm or is there an accepted figure allowance of that? @Jon, thats mint, you have no idea how long i spent trying to find that type of info, brilliant thank you. @noel, i wonder what dictates too tight with 4'8", is that the radius curves ? surely you could narrow the wheel track,

Neat. Gotta love the Russians. They are masters of innovation born out of years of necessity to do everything with the almost nothing they had available. I taught English to Russian refugees back in the late '80s and they regaled us with endless stories of how they fixed their Russian motorbikes and cars and tractors with no parts available. Stuff like pulling the springs out of leaking garter seals and shortening them to make the seal work again, or cutting dead car batteries open, scraping the sulphide off the plates and putting them back together by using the collective farm's plastic irri...

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Don't despair New Zealanders, they will arrive. I am also on the West Coast of Canada and received 299 last week Thursday, followed up by #300 the following day. The last ME I received was also 4655 which arrived on Jan 15th, What is amazing, however, is that I also received a letter from the UK on Friday, only four days after posting, it is many years since I have experienced this kind of postal service. Clive