I don't know how it happened, but one of the rear feet has broken off from one of my Fletcher point guns. It's a total PITA trying to use it with one foot missing.
I thought they were virtually indestructable. Obviously not!
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- Fri 25 Apr, 2008 8:47 am
- Forum: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
- Topic: Broke it!
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- Thu 24 Apr, 2008 8:45 pm
- Forum: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
- Topic: Not a lot of people know that!
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Re: Not a lot of people know that!
Just a note of caution :shock: Lifting the head up manually may cause the pedal cable to come off the pulleys below, so I would not advise this method. Bear in mind Cassese have made a modifications to the top bar and presser to over this problem. Act carefully and stay safe MITREMAN 8) Ooops, Egg ...
- Thu 24 Apr, 2008 12:18 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Custom made to order mouldings
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- Thu 24 Apr, 2008 12:15 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Custom made to order mouldings
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- Wed 23 Apr, 2008 10:20 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Different
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- Wed 23 Apr, 2008 10:11 pm
- Forum: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
- Topic: Not a lot of people know that!
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Heres one: (I dont know why it happens but its taken me years to notice it) how come styrene seems to have morestatic when you peel of the platic when its cold than when its warm? Electron mobility improves at higher temperatures, which enables the charge to disipate faster. It's why electronic val...
- Wed 23 Apr, 2008 10:05 pm
- Forum: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
- Topic: Not a lot of people know that!
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Hi Alan, As you say the two sides of float glass are not the same. There are electro-optical instruments produced to help glass trade professionals tell which is the tin side. It seems that many glass bonding products don't work quite as well on the tin side. For those who may wonder what this is al...
- Wed 23 Apr, 2008 9:27 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Custom made to order mouldings
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I only have a very small shop and workshop area, so 8 ft by 4 ft sheets are not something I can cope with, but the idea is nice just the same. Incidentally I liked the pasta moulding you used, it's areal shame that such mouldings are no longer available. Simons still have their Victorian range and t...
- Wed 23 Apr, 2008 5:39 pm
- Forum: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
- Topic: Not a lot of people know that!
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Not a lot of people know that!
Quite a few manual underpinners can be persuaded to join thicker mouldings by manually pulling the overhead clamp up by hand. My Cassesse CS79 will lift up another inch or so! All that happens is the pedal comes up a bit higher too. No doubt Cassesse would argue that it's not designed to be used lik...
- Wed 23 Apr, 2008 4:19 pm
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- Topic: Custom made to order mouldings
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I don't have the facilities to cut up boards like that, but if it could be bought accurately machined into strips I no doubt would consider it, having seen a picture posted of one of your frames made with it. As you say, it did look very classy! It also would fit my critera for something which could...
- Wed 23 Apr, 2008 12:31 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Custom made to order mouldings
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Another trick which works well, is to use an ordinary flat piece of wood from your local timber supplier for the centre panel and cut the inner moulding so that the rebate is on the outside and glue it ito the inside of the centre panel. The sight edge is now on top of the centre panel and the norma...
- Wed 23 Apr, 2008 9:32 am
- Forum: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
- Topic: Lion Moulding L1335
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That's a fairly normal situation with many similar profiles. I get around it by lining up the outer of the moulding and a liitle bit of filling / touching up of the sight edge. Cotton buds are often useful. It usually works out just fine. Try practicing with your off-cuts. It's much easier than you ...
- Wed 23 Apr, 2008 9:23 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Custom made to order mouldings
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If you could use 20ft of 583 841 000, I got it in stock. Got it in a 10 quid bargain bundle. Hi Prospero, That's for the kind offer, but I'm getting quite a bit of these moulding as a kind of long term plan, so I shall soon be well covered. I'm intending to have multiple uses for each of these moul...
- Tue 22 Apr, 2008 7:20 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Custom made to order mouldings
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Hi Prospero, I don't know if like me you like to keep old moulding catalogues, but if you do and have any old Simons catalogues, then look up one of the following mouldings.:- 583 770 266 or 583 841 000 These beautiful and very expensive mouldings are sadly no longer available. These are the shape I...
- Tue 22 Apr, 2008 12:13 pm
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- Topic: Custom made to order mouldings
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Have you had a price for having the cutters made or are you goinng for square edged mouldings? That hasn't arisen yet, one is an existing moulding with extra added to the base, the other has square edges. However, I am planning on doing some mouldings which will need cutters made. My intention is t...
- Tue 22 Apr, 2008 11:56 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Newbie Alert!
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- Mon 21 Apr, 2008 9:54 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Custom made to order mouldings
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- Mon 21 Apr, 2008 8:26 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Custom made to order mouldings
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Re: Custom made to order mouldings
Sorry no edit available! Shoud read:- During this earlier thread and following advice given by Paul & Ian, (thanks guys), I been following some of this up and as a result I have already ordered the moulding with extra depth added to the base, (thanks Ian for the tip) and I am currently waiting f...
- Mon 21 Apr, 2008 8:20 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Custom made to order mouldings
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Custom made to order mouldings
I'm starting to get into ordering some made to order mouldings. Things got started as a result of the earlier thread about the limited choices in oak mouldings. During this earlier and following advice given by Paul & Ian, (thanks guys), I been following some of this up and as a result I have al...
- Mon 21 Apr, 2008 4:54 pm
- Forum: The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
- Topic: You can't be serious!
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Thanks Alan, That's exactly the info I need. Also I've prepared a drawing of the required moulding in tulipwood and emailed for quotation, so things should soon be happening. It's even got a rebate in the back so I can recess the D-rings to hang flush on the wall. It's taken a lot of working out, th...