12-04-2014, 04:27 PM
Hi,
I'm not surprised you got bounced around by Brook's Ted. When I worked at Brook's fractional horse power motors were made both at the Honley and Doncaster factories. The Honley factory closed years ago and I thought Doncaster too had closed? I've not been back to Brook's since I left in Dec 2000. Brook at Huddersfield is now merely a distribution center but I believe a small team are still employed doing motor modifications. It's truly sad to see the likes of the Brook empire disappear transferring manufacturing abroad. As in many large companies Ted the office staff are divorced from the shop floor both living in different worlds and speaking different languages?
I didn't experience any problems in joining Practical Machinist forum Ted and so far I don't think I'm under FBI surveillance but then the FBI don't need to watch me because they can simply ask the neighbours what I'm up to?
What a shame Ted that you attend Rufforth so late in the morning; I've bagged all the bargains before you arrive and I've usually already done two trips back to the car with goodies before I meet up with David who arrives at 9 o'clock.
David kindly sent me details of a new auto jumble not far from Rufforth this being in Wetherby. I've had a look at the website and although entry fee is only half that of Rufforth costing only £2 there appears to be only half the stuff on sale because only bike and car parts are for sale; no tools? Because of the limitations at the Wetherby jumble I'll not bother with it and stick with Rufforth; OK so it cost's £4 to get into Rufforth and perhaps £10 for petrol but for a total of £14 it's a brilliant mornings entertainment for me and well worth the money. I hope we can meet up sometime at Rufforth Ted; when I meet up with David I usually leave Rufforth around 11 o'clock if you can arrive before 11 o'clock then we've cracked it?
http://www.wetherbyautojumble.co.uk/
I sorted a couple of silly jobs out this morning; I had bought compatible ink cartridges for my Canon all in one and the BK cartridge jammed the lot; I couldn't do a thing with the printer due to a displayed message saying "cartridge not recognized" so a short while ago I dumped this printer in the spare bedroom out of the way. This morning I set the printer up again and installed the original cartridge which allowed me to scan documents. I had installed two compatible black cartridges the small and large ones; strange though the message only related to the small cartridge so I removed this and installed a different compatible and now the printer is working OK; like most things in life it just wanted to mess me around. Next job was the newish eight page cross cut paper shredder this being a Bush; I have used this a number of times without problems but now it was dead? I replaced the fuse and it still was dead then I noticed a small arrowhead on the container? Sure enough when I turned the shredder unit 180 degrees on its container it fired up again; there must be a safety switch installed and all the times I've used this shredder I must have been lucky and replaced it the correct way around; it sits both ways on top of the container and I hadn't noticed the arrow heads previously; I did the shredding.
This afternoon I managed a couple of hours in the garage. This Gryphon motor has different feet spacing's to the original motor so I've been doing a bit of modifying; the motor is now installed but about 3/8" out of alignment; I can sort this out tomorrow by adding slots to the two steel mounting strips I made; I'd have done this today but my elbow is talking to me saying don't be stupid you've used the hacksaw enough for today? This Gryphon though looks the part and it having a 5/8" diameter shaft allowed the original stepped pulley to be installed without problem. Working in confined space I stood up and raked my lower back on the Startrite combination woodworker which I enjoyed and the pain can keep my elbow pain company; it's these little things which keep reminding me that I'm still alive? I thought the old motor supplied with the lathe to be the original but having now inspected the heavy casting on the lathe base it's obvious that other motors have also been installed given three lots of mounting holes? I've used one set of these holes saving drilling and tapping even more holes in the base.
Kind regards, Col.
I'm not surprised you got bounced around by Brook's Ted. When I worked at Brook's fractional horse power motors were made both at the Honley and Doncaster factories. The Honley factory closed years ago and I thought Doncaster too had closed? I've not been back to Brook's since I left in Dec 2000. Brook at Huddersfield is now merely a distribution center but I believe a small team are still employed doing motor modifications. It's truly sad to see the likes of the Brook empire disappear transferring manufacturing abroad. As in many large companies Ted the office staff are divorced from the shop floor both living in different worlds and speaking different languages?
I didn't experience any problems in joining Practical Machinist forum Ted and so far I don't think I'm under FBI surveillance but then the FBI don't need to watch me because they can simply ask the neighbours what I'm up to?
What a shame Ted that you attend Rufforth so late in the morning; I've bagged all the bargains before you arrive and I've usually already done two trips back to the car with goodies before I meet up with David who arrives at 9 o'clock.
David kindly sent me details of a new auto jumble not far from Rufforth this being in Wetherby. I've had a look at the website and although entry fee is only half that of Rufforth costing only £2 there appears to be only half the stuff on sale because only bike and car parts are for sale; no tools? Because of the limitations at the Wetherby jumble I'll not bother with it and stick with Rufforth; OK so it cost's £4 to get into Rufforth and perhaps £10 for petrol but for a total of £14 it's a brilliant mornings entertainment for me and well worth the money. I hope we can meet up sometime at Rufforth Ted; when I meet up with David I usually leave Rufforth around 11 o'clock if you can arrive before 11 o'clock then we've cracked it?
http://www.wetherbyautojumble.co.uk/
I sorted a couple of silly jobs out this morning; I had bought compatible ink cartridges for my Canon all in one and the BK cartridge jammed the lot; I couldn't do a thing with the printer due to a displayed message saying "cartridge not recognized" so a short while ago I dumped this printer in the spare bedroom out of the way. This morning I set the printer up again and installed the original cartridge which allowed me to scan documents. I had installed two compatible black cartridges the small and large ones; strange though the message only related to the small cartridge so I removed this and installed a different compatible and now the printer is working OK; like most things in life it just wanted to mess me around. Next job was the newish eight page cross cut paper shredder this being a Bush; I have used this a number of times without problems but now it was dead? I replaced the fuse and it still was dead then I noticed a small arrowhead on the container? Sure enough when I turned the shredder unit 180 degrees on its container it fired up again; there must be a safety switch installed and all the times I've used this shredder I must have been lucky and replaced it the correct way around; it sits both ways on top of the container and I hadn't noticed the arrow heads previously; I did the shredding.
This afternoon I managed a couple of hours in the garage. This Gryphon motor has different feet spacing's to the original motor so I've been doing a bit of modifying; the motor is now installed but about 3/8" out of alignment; I can sort this out tomorrow by adding slots to the two steel mounting strips I made; I'd have done this today but my elbow is talking to me saying don't be stupid you've used the hacksaw enough for today? This Gryphon though looks the part and it having a 5/8" diameter shaft allowed the original stepped pulley to be installed without problem. Working in confined space I stood up and raked my lower back on the Startrite combination woodworker which I enjoyed and the pain can keep my elbow pain company; it's these little things which keep reminding me that I'm still alive? I thought the old motor supplied with the lathe to be the original but having now inspected the heavy casting on the lathe base it's obvious that other motors have also been installed given three lots of mounting holes? I've used one set of these holes saving drilling and tapping even more holes in the base.
Kind regards, Col.
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