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Good guesses for David but according to the ABC it’s short for David Boon. Rhyming slang apparently.
So traditional aboriginal hunting practices are cruel. Ok, let’s ban them.
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It isn’t stopping them.
See the items I posted above from this year with two top Japanese CNC firms, Okuma and Fanuc announcing opening manufacturing in China.
Well, gathering from the scarcity of comments re: Tim Minchin’s “Upright” I take it no-one is watching it…a good result
nazis built crematoriums in their concentration camps. there are large scale crematoriums built at XJ.
the nazis conducted medical experiments on living subjects. the chinese harvest organs on an industrial scale from living dissidents
As an aside, I operated one of these during my apprenticeship in the 1980s:
http://www.lislesurplus.com/misc/Okuma-MC40H-used-cnc-horizontal-machine-center-1987/
That was a wonderful machine.
It ran off floppy disk or punched paper tape.
Surely they had technologically advanced abattoirs using finger-bone principles to humanely slaughter marsupials.
I wish they would make up their minds if they were hunted-gatherers, or enlightened vegynses eating wombat shaped tofu.
Tim Minchin’ Upright – The Guardian loves it.And you know what that means.
Right Shy T…I mentioned at 6:58 earlier that the Sydney Moaning Horror and the Granuiad love it (of course because Minchin called G Pell a C**t so all the lefties suck it lovingly. However, I’m asking if anyone here has taken the time to watch
PS loved your piss take of Fitzsimian’s rendition of Black Arse Emu
Here is a newer Okuma:
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60,000 years later, still dropping rocks on a wombat’s head.
Very very good.
Love your work!
Thanks Sal, I’m glad someone got it.
when all you’ve got is rocks, everything start to look like a wombat head
The police shooting of a man displaying “irrational, intimidatory, violent and suicidal behaviour” was tragic — but officers acted in an “exemplary” manner, a coroner inquest has found.
ABC link
Wouldn’t “Queensland and Northern Territory Airline Services” be more correct?
We also operated Warner Swasey automatic lathes.
Before computers these things did the same thing.
You set up the machine by inserting different metal “dogs” in the drum of the machine and it would cycle through a sequence of operations. The chuck was opened or closed with a foot pedal.
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All this for a vanity project. Now completed it is almost deserted of traffic as the Chinese government will not allow ordinary people to drive on it.
Another old Warner Swasey:
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I made a lot of stuff on the old Ward capstans too. We made cruciforms for universal joints on these among many other things.
Before automatic lathes there were capstans for big production runs:
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That’s a very annoying video, Arky. You can’t hear what the bloke is saying because of the noise of the machine, and you can’t see what the machine is doing.
China’s Genetic Research on Ethnic Minorities Sets Off Science Backlash
Scientists are raising questions about the ethics of studies backed by Chinese surveillance agencies. Prestigious journals are taking action.
The Ward capstans had collet chucks.
You would select the correct size collet from a big cupboard full of ’em.
You could also change it out for a three jaw chuck or a four jaw.
Inside the casing behind the chuck was the drive belt.
They would start to slip and you would put some sticky black goo shit on it to help traction.
I remember seeing a BIG lathe once. A bloke rode with the cutting edge as it cut.
Well just for you Beaugan, here is a much later model Ward Capstan showing how the turret indexes
Also shows a collet chuck:
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Wasn’t sure yesterday about that splenetic crow, Pamela Karlan, called in to assuage the biases of the truncated dwarf Nadler. Further reading confirms that a Lezzo she be. Not much choice for her really, as she appears less than perfectly formed. Was rumoured to be on the Hillbot’s short list for the Supreme Court. Wonder if any blokes would have come forward and done a Blasey-Ford during the confirmation.
gathering from the scarcity of comments re: Tim Minchin’s “Upright” I take it no-one is watching it
The only thing I’d watch Tim Minchin in is a cage.
My mistake.
I thought the sewer scum had departed for the evening.
Time to watch another movie while the rest of you marvel in the latest adventures of Maria’s panties.
No.
No it wouldn’t.
It would be correct to say “Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Service”.
Aerial, not airlines or airline.
And service (singular).
We made these.
We’re sorta getting away from the joke there.
And these.
The Han Chinese are a monoculture.
So incredibly wrong.
OK.
I lost the toss and we watched the first episode.
It is shit.
Minchin plays a slightly eccentric but highly creative musician. At once part of the elite, but with the common touch.
You know this when he plays a duet on the piano with a bikie on the back of a ute.
As for the eccentricity … well, he’s got well coiffured crazy hair and a wide-eyed stare.
Yep.
It is shit.
And these.
Thank you, Arky. It’s a beautiful piece of machinery. I had to work with proper machines before I went up to university. I had to file a piece of steel to an inch cube. I was bloody useless at it. It taught me something about mechanical skills versus intellectual skills, and this led to a lifetime aversion for bullshit. Brute matter doesn’t allow you to get away with bullshit or fooling yourself. This is an important thing to find out.
Yeah, sorry.
Tried to out-pedant a pedant.
But Trans Australia Airlines was a good get.
There used to be a factory in Huntingdale Vic that extruded aluminium.
I made the die backers by hand using a bandsaw.
Gone now.
Probably packed up and sent to you know where:
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I think I know the one.
And, if I am right about the former General Manager it has probably gone to Malta.
Say no more.
What is a die backer?
Extrusion dies or cold draw forming dies?
They could still be in Australia, just not Huntingdale LL.
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Click on the video link and scroll through to 1:25 and the bloke has the die backer on the crane.
It goes behind the die to support the pressure exerted by ramming aluminium through the die.
About 40 cm thick big steel disc.
Ah.
Gotcha.
I remember them being called pads I think.
The cylinder of hot metal was the billet as I recall.
I saw brass and copper being extruded once.
Fugging hot!!!
I doubt it.
That process chews energy.
You’d go broke by lunchtime in Australia.
There are wire drawing dies made with diamonds. I doubt if Lizzie would approve.
Dr BG I totally approve. Being able to draw fine wire has many industrial applications.
I am not a diamond luddite.
Just want to have my fair share for adornment. 🙂