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Gentlemen
    Now that the frenzied excitement created by Dave Baker's signature
crossword clue competition has finally subsided, I'm pleased to announce
the winner as.................................(fanfare)

anyone got a list?   I was looking thru my fathers old childhood book
of planes from around 1940 or so.
they had pics of the Corsair and the B-17 with NMF fuselages and chrome
yellow wings.

Where do you buy and why?
Sam

I'm trying to find 3mm Festo tubing fittings of the push-in style, for
flexible tubing. In particular, a cap.
I've already tried Great Northern Hobbies, but they keep messing up my
order.

I just got the 5 cm Pak 38 on Friday, and
it is now complete with the exception of
around 5 parts. I'll have it done in a few days.
This is a nice little kit, that cries out for

Hi all, a Hotmail disaster seems to have wiped out much of the fine
advice I received about the VFD for the Myford. I need to get one
working for the Bridgeport now and can't remember (or find) any info on
what speed pot I need. I can't seem to access the VFD spec on the RS

I need to cut quite a few gears of 1.25 module  now I understand that myford
7 gears are 20 dp which = 1.27 module would I be able to  hob these down to
1.25 using a 1.25 hob and the gear on a free running spindle
hob on a vertical mill with head off set by hob pitch angle

Could any wise member of this group help me with drilling perfectly conical
holes (with a point at the bottom) as I'm having a spot of difficulty.  I've
recently bought some carbide spotting drills but they tend to leave a flat
in the botton instead of the pointy thing.  The ...

This is my first posting to the group and I would be very grateful for
your advice.
I wish to enter the hobby of Model Engineering and intend building a
small steam locomotive.

Spured on by a post in the Chaski forums I thought I would ask a question.
Does anyone use the oil only socks or pads in their coolent tanks to soak
up oil from the cutting oil/coolent tanks.
I was wondering if the oil only stuff absorbs the cutting oil as well as

I'd like to mould some "plastic" parts - essentially a cubiod about 55mm x
30mm x 45mm which will contain some batteries.
It need to be black, adhere to some existing plastic (ABS at a guess) and
hard when set.

Thanks for looking!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=019&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT
&viewitem=&item=290058275865&rd=1&rd=1

Traffic seems a bit slow here, so ...
Just noticed in the last two days that one or two spammers have
managed to infiltrate the message boards at Modelwarships. That sux,
and I am sure the webmasters are doing their very best in that

..now that's a nice lathe
eBay: 26005760782
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Myford Mat

Any ideas as to what the MEMOFIX switch is for on a Heidenhain DRO fitted to
a Bridgy ?
I half thought it might stop the power feed at a pre determined
point......... Wrong !!