I have a part for a briquette machine that I need to reverse engineer. It appears to have a M112 (yes one hundred and twelve) x 1.5 parallel thread on it.
I cannot find any reference to such a thread, does anyone know if it is a standard or better still have any reference to the data for it?
Just a word of warning really.
I have recently become a victim of someone trying to open various accounts in my name and as such have been referred to the UK’s fraud prevention service. This came as a big surprise to me as I am very careful with personal details, banking details, credit cards...
Having done the festive rounds meeting up with friends and family I don’t normally see on a regular basis I was very surprised how many were already feeling the recession.
Throughout a variety of jobs in different sectors many were on either on extended holidays, working a short week (some on...
Working in the sector I do we are under constant pressure to reduce costs and improve lead times, I do not have a problem with that.
Where my dilemma comes in is how far I push my suppliers, many of whom I have known for a long while and are genuine hard working people. Is it just good business...
We are a very small contract design company in the UK whose main source of work is large press tools, almost executively for the automotive industry.
We have fairly recently secured contracts with a very large multinational company, however due to a change in the company it looks like we will...
I notice on other threads that people claim no “sensitive” work is done outside the USA; this seems to blow that out the water just a little.
Does this have any implications for say defence work, or indeed should it?
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Over the past few years at least in the automotive trade things have tightened up considerably.
As CAD, CNC and robotics have improved so have the tolerances that parts are made too, this in no doubt improves the build quality of cars. When Joe used to assemble parts he knew that if you tweaked...
One of the guys in my office took early retirement a couple of years ago but still does bits of part time work when we are busy. To this day for basic calculations he still uses a slide rule.
One of the junior members of staff came in and asked him what he was doing “playing around” with a rule...
As more companies move over to aluminium body panels, I am sure others will have encountered the tooling problems that this creates.
The other day we came across a company that does superforming. Despite it still being to expensive for the mass producers some of the things they can do is...
I work in the UK for a fairly small company that designs and manufactures tooling and special purpose machinery almost exclusively for the automotive industry. I have done this for all my working life and have always enjoyed the challenge and the variety as in a small company you have to wear...
I don’t do much in AutoCAD these days due to going over the 3d but I got sent this and thought it would be worth sharing with anyone who has problems, as I used to.
Basically it seems to read in any revision of AutoCAD, so could be especially useful for anyone running older versions and best of...
Hi, I am not sure if this is the right forum for my question but I hope so. I have a new project that involves changing some old tooling and second operations into a progression tool. It is fairly low volume (in automotive terms) and cost is the main consideration.
One of the problems is the...
Hi, I am having a problem when I go into multiline text, the box opens fine but as you type nothing appears in the box, it does however appear in the drawing when you click OK. More of an a annoyance than a real problem, but can anyone help?
Thanks in advance.
