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Something for people who like 'Old School'.....
« on: November 20, 2017, 10:00:30 PM »
Visiting my mate 'Oldtime', (As he calls himself here, he's yet another Mark. I should just call all my mates Mark, it would make things a lot easier!) he's just reorganising his workshop. Here are a couple of his toys.

To paraphrase Crocodile Dundee, "That's nor a turret head drill press! THIS is a turret head drill press!"



And if you want to do a bit of light mill-work? What better way than a nice old fashioned NC mill that cost next to nothing because nobody wants to fix old stuff any more!



And why bother connecting to the mains for power when you've just rebuilt this little beauty!



A whopping 27 HP at 1200rpm it's a twin cylinder diesel made right here in Oz, just not very recently! :grin:



He fired it up for the first time after its rebuild while I was there. Spray some 'Start ya bastard' into the inlet tract and then use an air motor with a friction wheel running on that bloody great flywheel to get it spinning. Drop the decompressor and 'Boff-Boff-Boff' off she went. Wonderfully smooth and a joy to see.

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Re: Something for people who like 'Old School'.....
« Reply #1 on: November 20, 2017, 10:07:46 PM »
Pete, you're having way too much fun!  :boozing:

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Re: Something for people who like 'Old School'.....
« Reply #2 on: November 20, 2017, 10:09:34 PM »
 Crocodile who ?

 Damn , that is some cool old machinery Pete , Chuckie will get seriously excited when he sees this  :laugh:

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Re: Something for people who like 'Old School'.....
« Reply #3 on: November 20, 2017, 10:18:45 PM »
Combining large brains with opposable thumbs enables humans to do some pretty amazing stuff, both good and bad. Being able to make stuff well and accurately falls under the 'Good' definition I think! :grin:

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Re: Something for people who like 'Old School'.....
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Re: Something for people who like 'Old School'.....
« Reply #4 on: November 20, 2017, 10:23:27 PM »
Combining large brains with opposable thumbs enables humans to do some pretty amazing stuff, both good and bad. Being able to make stuff well and accurately falls under the 'Good' definition I think! :grin:

 If Dolphins ever grow opposable thumbs we are in real trouble .

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Re: Something for people who like 'Old School'.....
« Reply #5 on: November 20, 2017, 11:43:56 PM »
I recall the Monty Python sketch where all the Australians were called 'Bruce' - and when the new guy showed up, they decided to call him Bruce too, just to make it clear.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyVX3uJpqxc

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Re: Something for people who like 'Old School'.....
« Reply #6 on: November 21, 2017, 12:07:48 AM »
You guys have heard about the dog with a hare lip. It went mark, mark, mark.
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Re: Something for people who like 'Old School'.....
« Reply #7 on: November 21, 2017, 01:27:56 AM »
You guys have heard about the dog with a hare lip. It went mark, mark, mark.
You old bastard Wynd...
I wanted to do that one but didn't have the guts...
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Re: Something for people who like 'Old School'.....
« Reply #8 on: November 21, 2017, 01:32:49 AM »
Combining large brains with opposable thumbs enables humans to do some pretty amazing stuff, both good and bad. Being able to make stuff well and accurately falls under the 'Good' definition I think! :grin:
That old green thing was built in Ballarat.
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Re: Something for people who like 'Old School'.....
« Reply #9 on: November 21, 2017, 06:58:11 AM »
Jolly good fun there, pip pip.
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Re: Something for people who like 'Old School'.....
« Reply #10 on: November 21, 2017, 07:27:19 AM »



He fired it up for the first time after its rebuild while I was there. Spray some 'Start ya bastard' into the inlet tract and then use an air motor with a friction wheel running on that bloody great flywheel to get it spinning. Drop the decompressor and 'Boff-Boff-Boff' off she went. Wonderfully smooth and a joy to see.

Pete

I guess back in the day it would have been started with a big old 'OUCH ya bastard' starting handle

Still I learnt something - I didn't know the Aussies built stationary engines

You'll have to get him to stick it on a little trailer to drag it to steam rallies and watch it  pump water around and out of a tap as they do over here

I have no idea why but am sure that those chaps need to stay in more to prevent contaminating the gene pool  :wink:

Examples here:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LWy7oZK8FE
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Re: Something for people who like 'Old School'.....
« Reply #11 on: November 21, 2017, 07:49:59 AM »
"Ballarat"

As in Dr. Blake?
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Re: Something for people who like 'Old School'.....
« Reply #12 on: November 21, 2017, 07:59:13 AM »
"Ballarat"

As in Dr. Blake?

Yep although I have no idea if the series is actually filmed there.

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Re: Something for people who like 'Old School'.....
« Reply #13 on: November 21, 2017, 09:14:02 AM »
"Ballarat"

As in Dr. Blake?

No; as in "Black Jack of Ballarat" from "The Boscombe Valley Mystery" ....

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Re: Something for people who like 'Old School'.....
« Reply #14 on: November 21, 2017, 09:15:56 AM »
You guys have heard about the dog with a hare lip. It went mark, mark, mark.

I think this qualifies as not politically correct. At least that is why I stopped telling that joke in mixed company.
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Re: Something for people who like 'Old School'.....
« Reply #15 on: November 21, 2017, 10:28:48 PM »
Yep although I have no idea if the series is actually filmed there.
Yes it is.
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closed off lots of times..The old Post Office on the corner is where I worked for 35 Years.
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« Reply #16 on: November 21, 2017, 10:48:20 PM »
Yes it is.
Street view Lydiard Nth between Sturt and Mair St.
closed off lots of times..The old Post Office on the corner is where I worked for 35 Years.

 I've wondered about that , TDBM is one of my favorite programs . Shame it has been cancelled , at least Auntie is making a movie to close it out .

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Re: Something for people who like 'Old School'.....
« Reply #17 on: November 21, 2017, 10:57:10 PM »
I've wondered about that , TDBM is one of my favorite programs . Shame it has been cancelled , at least Auntie is making a movie to close it out .

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They're doing another series apparently..

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Re: Something for people who like 'Old School'.....
« Reply #18 on: November 22, 2017, 12:56:21 PM »

You'll have to get him to stick it on a little trailer to drag it to steam rallies and watch it  pump water around and out of a tap as they do over here


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Re: Something for people who like 'Old School'.....
« Reply #19 on: November 22, 2017, 01:15:57 PM »
Stopped in at a local company "Foltz Manufacturing" http://foltzcompany.com/about/ in Hagerstown yesterday to have the flat belt for my lathe repaired. This required the assistance of the shop foreman who was busy in the machine shop. Stepping through the door into the shop was like going back 70 years. Huge lathes, drill presses, shapers and mills - all run off of an overhead line shaft. They even had a (coal fired) forge that looked recently used. That was only one section of the shop floor - I didn't venture into the "back shop" which had even more huge machinery. Freakin' awesome. 
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Re: Something for people who like 'Old School'.....
« Reply #20 on: November 22, 2017, 07:06:23 PM »
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to have the flat belt for my lathe repaired.

Hello. 20th century calling.  :smiley: Do you still have a steam jenny running a jack shaft??  :evil: :grin:
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« Reply #21 on: November 22, 2017, 07:17:14 PM »
Crickey Pete!
Don't tell us you've fallen in love with some "old technology" ?
Next you'll be going back to 2VPC !!!

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« Reply #22 on: November 22, 2017, 07:19:44 PM »
Hello. 20th century calling.  :smiley: Do you still have a steam jenny running a jack shaft??  :evil: :grin:

This was for my '46 Montgomery-Wards/Logan lathe. Nope, has an electric motor.  :laugh:
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Re: Something for people who like 'Old School'.....
« Reply #23 on: November 22, 2017, 07:21:59 PM »
Dang. I'm starting to miss the 20th century!

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« Reply #24 on: November 22, 2017, 07:57:50 PM »
They're doing another series apparently..

 Good news  :thumb:

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« Reply #25 on: November 22, 2017, 08:42:21 PM »
This is the streetscape where a lot of the location stuff is shot.


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« Reply #26 on: November 22, 2017, 08:58:04 PM »
If Dolphins ever grow opposable thumbs we are in real trouble .

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Well of course Dolphins never had the need to try and control their environment.

I love old engines. Especially the big old semi diesels that unstopably spin tons of flywheel and make such a lovely sound.  The stationary engine section is a 'must do' at the Edendale Crank up Day that I usually attend. 
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« Reply #27 on: November 22, 2017, 09:06:43 PM »
Well of course Dolphins never had the need to try and control their environment.

I love old engines. Especially the big old semi diesels that unstopably spin tons of flywheel and make such a lovely sound.  The stationary engine section is a 'must do' at the Edendale Crank up Day that I usually attend.

 Well , at least after their ancestors got smart and crawled back into the ocean from dry land .

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Re: Something for people who like 'Old School'.....
« Reply #28 on: November 23, 2017, 02:51:27 AM »
This place is less than 10 miles from me
https://www.youtube.com/internalfire
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