Making a Straight Edge (south bend part 2) 

Hi Thanks, my patience was pushed a bit especially after a couple of 10 hour stints, my back felt like it had broken. it’s worth it in the end. regards

Hi, thanks for your comments. But, sewing machines are fascinating little gadgets. :) regards

Hi, thanks. you’re very welcome. cheers

Hi. thank you, It’s surreal really, because you can spend lots of time trying to get what you’re after then suddenly all three plates agree. regards

‘JCB’ here and in quite a few places around the world is a tractor 🚜 with a shovel on the front and a digger on the back, for its size it is powerful and universal a sort of small CAT earth mover. In this case, to be a ‘veritable JCB’ implies to shove material off at a good rate

Hi, I have made a set of plates but I didn’t go the whole nine yards to get it to a decent quality. I do use it for marking out though. regards

Hi, Matt. Thanks for your very kind comments, cheers.

Wellcome Pagan from another Pagan, nice to hear from a distant brother. 🤭

Hi, thanks I'll try to remember that. cheers.

Hi, thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed the video.

Just wondering….. you're not in someway related to him are you?… 😁

Thank you, glad you enjoyed. regards

Hi, I wish you all the luck in the world with your new channel. Mapping the bed ways are going to be done and shown in a short video soon. For your information…. I don’t have any special camera equipment, I have… 1 Aldi motorcycle camera, 1 very cheap amazon video camera supported on a wooden d.i.y. tripod, 1 very low budget clip on mic dangling off some sellotape from a bamboo cane. . The whole lot cost about £73, so what I am saying is, let nothing deter you, then try improve on the previous video with what you’ve got, most important of all, listen to your subscribers and you’ll soon be finding the whole adventure a pleasure. regards.

@@Thesheddweller ha ha, brilliant! My set up is an old smart phone mostly mounted on the remains of an angle poise lamp😁 I have loads of enthusiasm, no money and back that that fails after 20 minutes of standing up, but we plod on. Just made a butt prop which is great, I can treble my standing time now which means I make even more mistakes😊 Looking forward to your next upload, cheer Neil

@@NellsMechanicalManCave :)

Hi thanks, glad you enjoyed the video, the next might just fry my minuscule brain cell. we’ll see. regards.

Hi, the blue spots are where both edges touch each other. cheers.

Hi, not quite sure what you mean here, but all I needed to do is one edge of all three work pieces to get a straight edge. regards

@@Thesheddweller It's a punny compliment. Happened upon your channel yesterday and I wondered if people realize the gift sharing knowledge is... and I watched the entire video while my subconscious was resting then somebody woke up with a comment on mind. Crazy? Yeah probably, but quite harmless. If people are strange are strangers stranger? Damn, got a song stuck in my head now... a good one this time. Cheers from BC Canada

Great fun, init.😁

Hi, Cheers.

Hi, thanks, Im' glad you enjoyed the video.cheers

Hi, that is correct. cheers

Sorry to appear so patronising but, I do try to aim for middle ground in my explanations. I have pointed out before that, I only show how I did what I did and hopefully I won’t be telling anyone how to do anything, because there are literally dozens of ways to do any engineering task, as with your powder and petroleum jelly to replace engineers blue. I do however, understand your supply issues. regards

Hi, thanks, thats a great idea. It might be worth a try if they have manual machines. However, they would probably work the same probationary process that the company I worked for used. As a charge hand, I knew that 'new employees' cost the company a lot of money until they had completed the probationary period. This includes huge amounts of time with health and safety, induction courses, fire drills, overalls, thats before the machine familiarity and assigning another operator to oversee ’the new guy’. this is because of the size and cost of machines and the cost of materials is so high. Oooo… I just found myself reading the riot act again .. I think I’ll just do it myself. regards

Hi, Errr.. don’t mention lip stick. regards.

Hi Trevor, thanks for your comment.. it probably cost me £90 in electricity through lighting alone :-) ,.. who is Mr Green?

Hi, yep know.. :-)

Hi,thanks for the comments. Cheers

Hi Raul. No, i didn’t look into the cost of getting the edges straightened because, the cost of getting stuff done here in the UK is prohibitively expensive. For instance getting a tooth refitted to the back gear wheel is in excess of £500, then I’ve got to re-profile it afterwards. I’ve used these straight edges quite a lot lately and they still confirm true against each other. After Ive finished the lathe I’ll probably use the material from these straight edges on some project. regards.

Hi thank you, plenty more to come. regards

Hi thanks, I miss New Zealand it a wonderful country, I have traveled all over on bikes and in Maggots (campers). More Videos to come.

Hi, maybe,… maybe but, I needed some rigid straight edges. cheers

Hi thanks, regards

Olá, obrigado por seus comentários, fico feliz que você tenha entendido. Saudações

Hi thanks, I try with what i’ve got and if it don’t work, I try again. cheers

Hi, sorry i didn't reply, I missed your comment. Thank you. Cheers

Hi, sorry i didn't reply, I missed your comment. Thanks. Cheers

Hi, thanks, much appreciated. Cheers

Hi Ken, thanks, regards

Hi thanks, my back aches a bit…. well a lot really but its worth it. regards

Hi, thank you for your comment.. I don’t think I'm a genius there are more practical people out there than me. cheers

Hi, did you ever get one?

@@Thesheddweller Yes I did this, was about $40 from distant memory. Mainly use for checking and setting woodwork machines. The blade doesn't have teeth, the firm I bought it from manufactures blades, and also sells straightedges, but one of these at 1 metre was in the several hundred dollars.

@@stanstevens3783 A great idea and a good tool, especially if you still use it. sometimes the old ones still rate as the best. cheers

Hi, Cheers.

Hi thanks, there were times…….. well you know.. regards.

Draw filing must have seen off a few files, mind you they could have been used as scrapers. :-) regards

@@Thesheddweller Yes. I was an aircraft technician in the Royal Air Force. In the first part of the practical side of my engineering training, they showed me what I had to make. A rectangular block, squared up, with various tapped holes in it. All hand work with files at that stage. So they showed us this nice flat, rectangular block with all sides mutually orthogonal, then gave us a piece of black bar that was practically round. Cue lots and lots of filing.

@@carlwilson1772 Round bar…!. that was cruel.

@@Thesheddweller Perhaps it was but it worked.

@@carlwilson1772 I had the same task at college, with round, stock but had to square it up using four different machines to get it somewhere near, then draw file to 2” square, mine ended up in the bin. If I remember rightly the tutor threw all of them in the bin, he was strict but we all learned from it...

Hi, I hope I haven’t caused you any undo stress after watching this. regards

@@Thesheddweller - I was just trying to be funny. Maybe I need more practice.. I think I’ll hang around as I suspect I’ll learn a lot from you.

So was I, hey the written word can always be mi- interpreted. cheers