Broken Singer 31K32

[LumpenDoodle2]

2 hours ago, dikman said:

LumpenDoodle, you've got the term "mere wimmin" wrong (besides your shocking spelling ). The correct usage is "mere male", I've never heard it applied to the female persuasion. After all, we all know women can multi-task whereas men often struggle if attempting more than one thing at a time.

Well spotted, but the spelling is a gentle homage to the satirical magazine Private Eye, and I'm going for my Uriah Heep 'Umble' badge this week   Sadly, I'm unable to get the tongue in cheek, or irony emoticon to work.   But there again, only the gods can achieve perfection.

[RockyAussie]

3 hours ago, dikman said:

I do know that old cast iron is a bugger to work with. It's hard to drill, I've broken the odd tap or two when attempting to work with it and as Eric said they usually then become part of the metal!!

Just a tip to try. I have had the same thing happen more times than I care to admit but I have had success in removing the broken taps when they ended up level by using a Dremel cutting disc and cutting an Allen key to suit. Normally the 3 prongs end up at 1/8 to 1/4 inch deep. Works most times.

[dikman]

Thanks mate, I'll keep that in mind for next time (although the last one I broke recently, when repairing my treadle, was well and truly stuck!).

[Diyer]

In the days when I was helping run a motorcycle shop, I have memories of getting broken fins off cast iron barrels (BSA A10) brazed back on. I think it was heated first in a muffle.There was a local specialist, Smethwick welding, that did the work. Now long gone.

[mikesc]

"bronze roads" ..bronze rods..or New England accent ;) ?
Problem with that advice is that bronze is a metal alloy..or to be more accurate which bronze you have determines what is in the alloy and what the percentages of each metal are in relation to the whole ( and how much carbon, there will be some. there is in your bronze etc )..There is no bronze in the periodic table of elements, and no set formula for what is meant by "bronze"..bronze is about as accurate a term as "cheese"..Problem when you don't know what is in it and in what proportions is that you then don(t know at what temp it will begin to melt, what temp it will begin solidifying, what the flow will be like, what ( and how ) it will combine with, how strong will be the resulting alloys ( secondary and tertiary alloys ) at the joining faces of the weld, what will be the penetration characteristics etc etc.

aside..Working with bronze in any form is "interesting", and bronze casting is an art..repairing bronze castings is far harder than repairing cast iron..although cast iron is also a bit of a vague term, cast iron is also full of non iron impurities and other elemental improvements..metallurgy is a whole set of degrees and studies and disciplines in itself.

You can do trial and error to find out how any given welding rods will work on any given welding job of course, but in the OPs case that would mean deliberately breaking off other parts just to see how they welded back together.

Nice part of the work Neil..( and superb photo ) but not surprised to hear that the machine arrived broken if it was delivered by mountain bike over that sort of terrain

[torrbuidhe]

8 hours ago, mikesc said:

Nice part of the work Neil..( and superb photo ) but not surprised to hear that the machine arrived broken if it was delivered by mountain bike over that sort of terrain

That's an enormous peat bog, if you dropped the machine there it wouldn't break,  it would sink.

I heard back from the seller, they say they packed it well and the courier made it kaput. Aye, right.

Neil

[mikesc]

aside..So..what looks like the trig' point is constructed on previously delivered singers, but not on their packaging ;)

I thought it looked like there were boggish parts, but in Ireland ( where I'm origanally from ) we don't do pristine peat bogs on quite that scale..ours tend to be worked ( peat extracted partially or entirely ) and full of my relatives ( small place, everyone is related somehow to everyone, 19th cousins twice removed etc ) posing with bepaniered[sic?] donkeys for tacky tourist postcards..You could make money with that photo, got any more of that quality composition, watermark them ( via a faded / ghosted method* through the middle , not the edges so your watermark cannot be cropped ) and make yourself** a site to commercialise them through.

* and **Don't know how ? ..drop me a pm and I'll explain.
/aside..

Edited April 1, 2017 by mikesc

[fredk]

I assume you did not buy it in person? EU Distance Selling Regulations [DSR] clearly state that the sender is ultimately fully responsible for getting the goods to the buyer in good condition and fit for purpose. You are only responsible if you specified the seller to use a certain courier. Its up to the seller to claim off the courier

Not knowing how you paid for it, unless it was by cash or BACS, you could put the case to the payment agency. [eg credit card or paypal]

This is UK & EU law; does not apply to other countries ouside these areas

[mikesc]

DSR doesn't AKAIK apply to transactions between two private individuals..but yes..if Neil bought it from anyone registered as a business in the EU, a "chargeback" on the card ( or paypal if they were involved ) could very well work..I'm registered in both the UK and France as a business(es) and I have to abide by both UK and EU distance selling regs.

[torrbuidhe]

The biggest blanket bog in the world, 1500 square miles.

Thanks for the complements about the photo, I think my digital compact camera limits the image quality for commercial use though. My sister's partner has sold the odd photo (he has a pro quality DSLR) and he's a web developer so I'm well supported on that front. A welder would be much handier just now of course.

I bought the machine on ebay so I'm going through their resolution process.