Worktop Jig

I thought that Elu was more of a God of Thunder...?

But yes, it's very smooth in operation, especially the plunge action.

Do you mean the gizmo that drops into the spindle position? I've specified one for mine, but I have a feeling that a small router table is still going to be useful for small work.

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This is cheap marketroid-speak we're translating.

Tufnol is linen cloth with phenolic. Paper and phenolic is Paxolin, which has similar electrical properties but minimal mechanical strength.

Canoes are blown or rotationally moulded polypropylene these days - GRP is _very_ old tech for canoes.

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That's a good idea. I have a collegue who does woodwork, so that would be easy to arrange. I suppose that you would have to convince them that these are tools of the trade.

Even so, I suspect that a zealous customs officer might decide to ask for a receipt.

On one occasion, one asked to look at my notebook PC. I didn't have the invoice with me so they examined the machine. On discovering that it said IBM and Greenock on the label, they let it go. The UK keyboard was a clue as well.

I do. A yellow site transformer at about £40 does the trick well. I have numerous 110v tools that I've acquired over the years, including various cordless ones as well as corded. The largest is a small DeWalt table saw which I imported, a) because it was significantly less expensive than here, b) because the US model will take a stacked dado set. It runs quite well with this arrangement.

I also fixed up a 110v power distribution arrangement in the workshop using Commando (EN 60309) yellow plugs and sockets. Basically, the transformer sits in one corner and has a lead connecting to a male wall mounted plug. This is then cabled in the trunking (using thick singles) to numerous Commando sockets.

On tools with power cords, I've replaced the flat pinned U.S. plugs with Commando types. For the chargers, I bought the best outlet strip that I could find in the U.S. to at least get decent connectors, then I put a Commando plug on that.

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I stand corrected sir! You are completely right...been years since I saw either...

Showing my age again...

You did get my drift here, didn't you ?

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At £339 a pop I wol;dn't call it a gizmo. ;-(

Its a complete replacement spindle with replaceable collets on the head.

I won't throw out the router table for a while but I have a strong feeling that the accuracy of the spindle moulder fence, digital readout on the heigt adjuster and fence plus tilting spindle and the 'Multi fine adjuster' will make the Felder the machine of choice.

Time will tell

Paul Mc Cann

There was more? Please explain.

It's in their Christmas special offers at £229 ....... I had a call from their sales guy before Christmas mentioning it.

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On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 15:09:49 +0000, Andy Hall wrote: snip

Its coming to me as a prezzie, along with a few other things. Santa was nice to me this year.

Paul

You've obviously been good. :-)

When you get the router spindle, please let me know how you find it.

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Not my idea, a nice customs man at Exter Airport... Coming back from the channel islands with a =A3700 radio scanner many moons ago:

"Anything to declare?" "Yes, this scanner" "How much was it?" "=A3700" "Thats a lot for a second hand scanner" "It's not second hand, I bought it new at..." "Thats a lot for a second hand scanner" "Yes it is isn't it? But they are very good" "On your way".

Or a converstaion very similar to that. Mind you being the last flight in on a wet and stormy night might have had something to do with it as well. B-)

Yes, being correct and accurate can cause p[roblems for the poor old boys.

Once, I was doing some work in France, and had a computer with me. So I got a carnet, where you declare the bloody thing at every border. And get a stamp for it.

I went after france to my sisters in Germany, then up to see a friend in Denmark, before taking teh ferry back from Denmark.

About 9 months l;ater I got a strange letter in Danish from teh customs at teh german border. I assumed that they were windereing where I and my computer was.

I photocopied the exit page of the carnet that I go at teh ferry port, and sent it to them.

I heard nothing more.

Another time I upset Dover customs hugely whn I tried to declare a couple of Kilos of german sauasages.

Mind you, a bloke I know took out a broken telequipment 'scope, and returned with a brand new HP spectrum analyser bought in germany, in the boot. The carnet said 'oscilloscope' on it :-)

Thank god for teh EU.

Many years ago when I worked at Mullards in the electronic maintenance department on shift work the done thing was to bring in a "stereo amplifier" or something like it which you wanted to fix during the evening hours, collect a docket at the gatehouse on the way in, then take your stereo amplifier back out once it had been repaired.

What actually happened was that you took in any old scrappy piece of kit that looked something like a stereo amplifier, then throw that away once you got inside with the docket. When you eventually walked out with the stereo amplifier and showed the docket at the gatehouse the security people were happy.

But the amplifier you were taking out was built in works time from components kindly provided from the Mullards spares cupboard..... ;)

I didn't partake in this activity of course.

Those were real fun days - about a dozen guys on each shift all doing "homers", fixing TVs for shop floor staff, the lot. One of the fondest memories I have of that time was that once 5pm came and the day staff went home out would come the card table and we'd spend the next few hours playing 3 card brag.

Occasionally we used to do a bit of work for Mullards as well, when the shop floor staff phoned in a job because something on the production line had broken down.

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Hmmm. Having been stuck in commercial customs at Dover for some hours because we had a computer on a carnet in the boot of the car, I'm inclined to disagree. We only got away when I said I was going to unload it on the dockside and drive off and leave it.

So how many OC71s in parallel did it take to make a power amp?

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Yes, I used to have to do this when taking test equipment and the odd replacement computer part to various countries.

One thing that I usually looked forward to was having to go through the red channel at customs. If I was lucky (quite often), they had just hauled someone in there from the green channel, and they were having their luggage disected and examined with a fine toothed comb, and that was always a good 15 minutes worth of entertainment value whilst I waited to get my rubber stamp...

It's when the rubber gloves come out that you know that it's going to get really entertaining. :-)

Some years ago I needed to take some equipment to Olivetti in Ivrea, so flew into Torino complete with carnet.

The customs official, who had enough scrambled egg on his shoulders to feed a regiment, had the largest rubber stamp pad I had ever seen, together with a rack of at least 30 rubber stamps.

There was a space on the form of about half A4 for him to use, and then underneath the same again for the next customs administration which was to be Austria. The Italian official managed to use about

When I got to the border crossing at Brennero, the Austrian official was not at all amused and went off and had a row with his Italian counterpart who then proceeded to stick a blank piece of paper over the bottom half of the form for the AUstrian to use. That wasn't acceptable to the Austrian, who then argued that he could read all the Italian stamps and that therefore the continuity in the form wasn't there. I was able to telephone an Austrian colleague who came up from the Austrian side several hours later and sorted it all out by paying some duty to Austrian customs.....

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Hell, back then I might have been able to tell you, but nowadays.....

Besides, I worked on the diode quality line - zener diodes and all that. BZX61's ring a bell in my memory archives, though they might be ordinary diodes.

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Not when they are dealing with your case it isn't!

Haven't been thru this myself so I can't comment based upon personal experience. But I imagine that someone wanting to stick his finger up your orifice might not be the most enthralling situation to contend with.....

....although I suppose for some it might be looked on as a positive development. 'Nuff said.

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