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[carelesschucca]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-19783214

Ah, for once there is a bit of news that makes you smile!

I just love the two guys hugging at the front of the picture... :)

[Sally]

Aberdeen at its finest haha

[yorkie_chris]

Setting off up there in half an hour, seems classy!

[Sally]

Aberdeen? What have we done to be graced with your presence?

[yorkie_chris]

Somebody wanted this designing, making and fitting;
http://imageshack.us/a/img823/3451/subdrillsteady.jpg


I was trying to get up on a Friday for obvious reasons but unfortunately no joy!

[Sir Trev]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-19783214

Ah, for once there is a bit of news that makes you smile!



I needed a smile! Nice find.

[widepants]

Whats he bin up to

[Bluepete]

Somebody wanted this designing, making and fitting;
http://imageshack.us/a/img823/3451/subdrillsteady.jpg


I was trying to get up on a Friday for obvious reasons but unfortunately no joy!

What the hell is that Chris?

Pete ;)

[andrewsmith]

Aberdeen at its finest haha

was it you Sally?

[yorkie_chris]

What the hell is that Chris?

Pete ;)

It's a magnetic containment alignment device for the transdimensional portals we stock.


Otherwise known as a manual steady for a CNC lathe... stops vibration and chatter when turning long bits of metal. Half a ton of British precision made steel, pretty innit :)

[appollo1]

when i first read about that my immediate thought was .....Sally!!!

[keith_d]

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Otherwise known as a manual steady for a CNC lathe... stops vibration and chatter when turning long bits of metal. Half a ton of British precision made steel, pretty innit :)


Those CNC lathes must have bloody big manuals to need a steady that size. Couldn't they print them on smaller pages??

Fixed or travelling steady?

[Shawthing]

Update:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-19790191

[yorkie_chris]

Those CNC lathes must have bloody big manuals to need a steady that size. Couldn't they print them on smaller pages??

Fixed or travelling steady?

They're for people with really bad eyesight, or to let people as short as Owenski kiss leggy birds, like a mammoth size yellow pages.

Fixed, ish. Has a separate powered carriage for the steady. Nothing like a travelling steady you'd attach to the carriage of a manual lathe. They're used like a fixed steady though you don't move them as the cut advances.

The first job they loaded onto it weighed more than the maximum allowed mass of the van I drove up there! :smt073

[andrewsmith]

Did you get stopped?

[yorkie_chris]

No d*ckhead the van was fine... only half a ton on it... the part they were machining weighed over 2.5t though! Fookinell!

[Thunderace]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-19790191

Is this a photo of Mr Smith trying to find a personality?

[andrewsmith]

No d*ckhead the van was fine... only half a ton on it... the part they were machining weighed over 2.5t though! Fookinell!

8-[

Blonde moment

[keith_d]

No d*ckhead the van was fine... only half a ton on it... the part they were machining weighed over 2.5t though! Fookinell!

That's pretty chunky. I'd assumed from the size of the steady that they would be machining tubular parts. But if they're working from solid that size it's gonna be heavy.

[yorkie_chris]

It was a tube, it just had a wall thickness to put a battleships rifles to shame.

[andrewsmith]

Oil rig parts