evening all ..... thought it was time for a catch up .... been busy
well I got to go to Bristol on the 26th ..... and the 'boss' came for the ride .... thought the birthday shopping had finished last week ....
'twas toooooooooooo close to the Cribbs Causeway Mall ... so ended up there afterwards ... was another bloody expensive day .......
but not as wallet slaying as the following day was
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my new Ajax AJT1 ... ISO 40 Int. spindle, stepped pulley head
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brand new Align variable power drive unit, on the X axis
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DRO on the X and Y ... older unit but nice display ... clocked it with the DTI and spot on ... even the hand wheels agreed with it
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nice clean tidy machine .... quietest head i've ever heard
only down side was the metric M16 draw bar isn't with it, only the imperial 5/8" x 11 .... and I've got both metric and imperial tooling .... weirdest draw bar i've ever seen .. two piece thing ...... I'll have to make a metric one, 'cos Ajax want 800 quid for one . and I ain't giving 'em the pleasure of shafting me for that
fits the space I prepped for it a treat ..... after we'd juggled the lil' bugger in
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it will do for a home for it for now .....
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Happy Birthday to me ... for this year
have n't had a 'decent' Happy Birthday to me prezzie for a while ... think me Goldwing was the last one ... an' no one else is gonna buy you those sort of toys ................
unless you have 'em at gunpoint LOL
gotta get a chassis plug fitted to the elex cabinet and wired in to take a flying lead from the genny.
If it hadn't been threatening rain, I'd have sorted the chassis plug, 'fore it went in there .....
would've been so much easier with it up on me bench, rather than groveling about on my knees
had a good crawl over it and have run it, where it came from, before kicking 'em to death on the price ...
got the distinct impression I had more idea about it than they did
am well pleased with it .... seems to have had an easy, pampered life, is well tight everywhere ... and it's imperial ... the genny wil be running it (for now-it's convenient ) although an inverter'd cope happily with the demand ... they'm thirsty lil' sods for the leccy!!!
this gives me all sorts of capacity, hole/shape-wise and one project that is deffo now an easier proposition, is a new hitch for the VA-r ----
S type with a few druid mod.s .....
it should have a lot more guts/rigidity than a Bridgeport too
..... I'd still have loved that Lion that I missed, with full power everywhere and in mint, barely used condition .. but this babe'll do nicely
been having an issue with one of me G couplers lately as in it was leaking ... been trying to get the damned thing apart, with little joy, to replace the guts of it.
these came up on ebay the other night and thought "give one a try" cheaper than the 'guts kit' too, at £6.69 .....
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very pleasantly surprised to find it works as well as, if not better than the originals I have
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the extra handle makes life a lot easier for attaching/detaching and it has three grippers in the head as opposed to the G's four ....
put a stick and a half into the 'Drema with zero issues at all .... time will tell, but ATM ...very happy with its performance
as for the old G coupler .... had to get the jaws into the vice to undo them .... some one taking the piss on the assembly line ...
stripped it eventually, after extracting the jaws first and then getting hold of the centre mandrel to get it undone ....
all cleaned up, fettled and the grippers reshaped, hopefully it'll be as good as new ....
couldn't be arsed to swap the new Ying Tong back off the gun to try it...as that was performing just fine
I saw the Paris addy thing on the listing and wondered???, but looking at his other items they have a 'french flavour' ... but as far as I recall it was international shipping and had a customs ticket on it ..... didn't look to have had it's origins in gay Paris
have to say, credit where due ..... it performed real well ...goes on/comes off easier and the extra handle makes handling it a doddle
IMHDO the three grippers instead of four holds it more securely - bigger grip area over 120 deg.s instead of the 90 degs on the G couplers I have
was well worth the try at 7 quid