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1st Jan 2022, 9:10 pm | #1 |
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Surprising workmanship.
Sometimes you just have to stand back and look at the surprising workmanship you have done!
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2nd Jan 2022, 12:45 am | #2 |
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Re: surprising workmanship
You're missing a trick with pictures. If you attach a photo or diagram to your post, the forum keeps it with your post and it is archived.
If you attach a link to a photo held on some other site, if you later move it or change provider, all links go broken and your post becomes pretty much worthless. The forum software is a bit limiting on image file size, but there are ways to make the most of it. There's a guide on uploading photos. The forum software will scale files to comply, so you don't have to do much more than get them into a reasonably compliant form and let it do the grunt work. https://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/...ad.php?t=77650 David
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2nd Jan 2022, 10:32 am | #3 |
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Re: surprising workmanship
That's made my day! Here it is...
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2nd Jan 2022, 12:03 pm | #4 |
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Re: surprising workmanship
The scribed line seems to be parallel to the cabinet edge, but makes the slight skew of the heatsink more visible. It's easy to get distortions from some camera lenses, but the line eliminates that possibility.
It's amazing how the human eye spots deviations from expected patterns. David
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2nd Jan 2022, 8:45 pm | #5 |
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Re: Surprising workmanship.
It does make you wonder about the soldering behind those connectors.
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2nd Jan 2022, 9:46 pm | #6 |
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Re: Surprising workmanship.
My apologies to the OP (if it he critiquing his own handiwork) but maybe that is how the connectors are meant to be positioned
Over many years of messing about with govt surplus and scrapyard type aircraft bits, one thing I became aware of was that many components are deliberately made with apparently random or otherwise asymmetrical mounting features so that they could only be assembled one way. Maybe there is a matching bit of equipment with the mating connectors mounted on a plate so they engage as one. Ian |
3rd Jan 2022, 12:39 pm | #7 |
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Re: Surprising workmanship.
Yikes! It never occurred to me that gtronix might be posting a picture of his own work, in which case I apologise for laughing.
As a penance I'll post some pictures of my many gaffs.
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3rd Jan 2022, 1:15 pm | #8 |
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Re: Surprising workmanship.
I will just remind you that 'he who never made a mistake never made anything'.
I'll happily admit to countless mis-drilled panels, things not in a straight line, etc. Alas no photos as most of them were done long before digital photography was commonplace. |
3rd Jan 2022, 1:17 pm | #9 | |
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Re: Surprising workmanship.
This always sticks in my mind:-
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3rd Jan 2022, 1:35 pm | #10 |
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Re: Surprising workmanship.
That's dead right. And being amused by ones cockups (and sharing them for others' amusement!) is a much better way forward than hiding them in the bottom box at the back of the shed, or hitting them with your biggest hammer and pretending they never happened
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3rd Jan 2022, 1:36 pm | #11 | |
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Haven't you just done that? Or may we expect to see some architectural gems?
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3rd Jan 2022, 1:40 pm | #12 | |
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More to the point, the audiophools would love this as a "Non dimensional interconnect positioning system to remove (not reduce) lateral and vertical flow interactions. |
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3rd Jan 2022, 7:47 pm | #13 |
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Re: Surprising workmanship.
I am very much a non-craftsman but one of the handiest things I've ever had to hand when trying to drill a straight line of holes (for sockets or buttons) or a matrix of evenly spaced holes (for a speaker) is a biggish bit of clean veroboard and some double sided sticky tape.
I stick the veroboard down onto the area of interest with one of its edges lined up with the edge of the work / lid / front panel etc, draw rings around the holes which I have decided are going to be the hole centres and drill small (1mm?) starter holes or dimples through them. I then remove the veroboard 'template' and enlarge the starter holes using progressively bigger drill bits until each hole is up to the diameter I want. Using this method, I usually get nice evenly spaced and aligned holes. |
3rd Jan 2022, 11:21 pm | #14 |
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Re: Surprising workmanship.
I bought myself one of these for Xmas, because I sometimes have hole layouts that I don't like. It's beautifully made, and when I checked with my vernier dial its extremely accurate.
As you can see it's basically a 300 mm square but the added 0.75 mm holes at each mm mark make marking out a dream. I have nothing at all to do with the company, but I highly recommend it. They also produce many other superbly made marking tools. Cost me $38 Au, so not overly expensive either. Joe |
4th Jan 2022, 12:25 pm | #15 | |
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Here's one of many. I carefully laid out the components for my Velleman signal tracer/injector to be pleasing to the eye, drilling and filing as required. When I came to assemble it l discovered that the PCB fouled the edge of the box! More filing and two pieces of black fibreboard later l now have a great bit of kit that will always remind me what a berk l can be...
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4th Jan 2022, 1:03 pm | #16 |
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Re: Surprising workmanship.
I wouldn't know anything was wrong with that - looks good to me - but that's always the way isn't it; it's that 'well I'd know!' thing.
On another forum I frequent another bloke has the sig line 'I'd like to be a perfectionist, but I lack the ability'. I joked with him that I also lack the ability, but luckily my perfectionist inner sense of harsh self-criticism is fully up-and-running My favourite here is a built-in bookcase I made from a pair of nice old glazed bookcase doors which came from a broken-up free standing thing at work. The two doors I have fit the two sides of an alcove, and left a gap in the middle for a third door I made to match. I spent ages on it, but when I came to measure up for the middle one, it is an inch narrower at the top, than at the bottom. (Our house was designed by Gaudi, and has subsided a bit since). It's hard to see, unless you (I) know it's there. The bloke at the glass shop gave me a look when I gave him the sizes
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5th Jan 2022, 1:26 am | #17 |
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Re: Surprising workmanship.
Paul Jennings's piece "Hitting the Nail on the Thumb" springs to mind. He speaks to me as I hope he speaks to the Every(wo)man.
He is shamefully out of print. I've photographed the column from my 1963 copy of the Jenguin Pennings. The man was a genius so perhaps that's a public service. |
5th Jan 2022, 8:37 am | #18 |
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Uncle Bulgaria!!!
I have never seen that before, but it explains to perfection my understanding of mathematics!!. Before they would even let me in to Uni I had to do "remedial mathematics ". A subject so dreary and dull that I failed twice. ( why it took me seven years to do basic electrical engineering degree, that is five years normally, or four years if you are a smartarse ) I don't even know who Paul Jennings is . The fact remains is : Measure twice, cut once. Joe the dummy. |
5th Jan 2022, 9:00 am | #19 |
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5th Jan 2022, 9:02 am | #20 |
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Re: Surprising workmanship.
I used to work with a wag who was fond of saying "If a job is not worth doing, it is not worth doing well"
Craig
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