Sir Fallsalot

This is blatant pity vote touting @Buckster ban him

I see lots of bikes pulling trailers to the motorcycle rallies now and have to admit i'm really jealous of the comfort they bring when camping usually see the older generation pulling them but it's something i just cant be bothered with it rolls all the disadvantages of a car and motorcycle into one vehicle bit like a trike or quad

@boboneleg i only just noticed the white horse on the hill in your photo your scoring extra points with me now

I wouldn't say the worst it hasn't got a topbox on so better than all the ones with a topbox

Yes it's still all good the parts I've made with it don't have to be that accurate but if you take your time with it it is very accurate, the only complaints i have is there is no powered cross feed and there's some backlash in the feed controls i could modify it to take that out but i can work around it so haven't bothered. Oh and i should have got the newer model as it had variable speed drive rather than belts mines a potch to change speeds so one speed suits all LOL

Surely that will be classed as photoshop then

Yes your right there I've been looking at various attachments and for the simple job i had today it would have taken hours to change from turning to milling and back again. if i get a mill it will be a stand alone one so no setting up after the initial set up is complete

Just a chinky one from Axminster works well, its an earlier version of this one, the one i got was discontinued years ago oddly enough just after i bought mine LOL https://www.amazon.co.uk/Axminster-Model-Engineer-Mini-Lathe/dp/B0791KM6ZS/ref=asc_df_B0791KM6ZS/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=375427856764&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=14538861943846071947&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1007453&hvtargid=pla-813232330013&psc=1&tag=&ref=&adgrpid=82457261451&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvadid=375427856764&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=14538861943846071947&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1007453&hvtargid=pla-813232330013

There is a milling attachment for the lathe available but its too tall for the space i have it in, might have to move things about a bit

That's the one machine i want to complete my workshop but don't have room for one

I must be too easy going because none of that bothers me and if it did i wouldn't vote for that person no matter what photo went up, its not like your going to get any cash or even better a free breakfast for winning the way i use the site i never see the front page anyway

My point is the members vote on it so it doesn't matter if its Bucksters bike on the moon or a shit bike in a fantastic scene the members decide what they want on the front page by voting every month, if i want to enhance a photo and its not to someones liking then they don't vote for it just seems simple to me

Todays bodge was for the Beta. The one thing i'm missing is a mirror but there is nowhere to mount one, the only space on the handlebars to put a generic clamp mounts the mirror too far in and i cant see past my elbow so i decided to make a mount and bolt it to the hand guards Started off with this bit of aluminium bar i picked up in work a few years ago and offered it up to where i want to mount it I need to cut out a groove so the bar of the handguard locates in it, i used my chop saw which has a metal cutting blade in it to do multiple cuts to create the groove Lots of filing after this to take away the ridges and the curve of the blade but it's something i will do at the end as its a lot of work to do and then find out i don't like the end result I need to put a taper on the end so it doesn't clash with the wind protector part of the hand guard I have to guess the right angle so have a few attempts to get it right zero engineering skills used here LOL The part cut off and cleaned up Mounted on the handguard almost finished didn't have a tap with the correct thread pitch for the mirror so got to wait until the one i ordered arrives quite pleased with the way it turned out

I thought BOTM is supposed to be a bit of fun that the members vote on so the pic that the members like best will be on the front page, sorry its all going too serious for me so i shall not be entering from now on

At this moment eating cheese on toast done under the grill in my oven LOL and then i'm not sure see how the day unfolds god i live an exciting life

So are you taking it for a ride

Shall we give him TOTY 2023 now or do you think zzzak will up his game

I was thinking the same he's been shoulder deep in snow since January and its melted for a whole week leaving no trace and come back again

Zooming in to see what you were on about i spotted this, a bit further on i realised i didn't have my glasses on and couldn't remember when i last had them i now know where to look

No just sunk in the mulch, its a stupid design thin as a stick at the end but it does come with a threaded hole in the bottom so i screwed a disc to the bottom to stop it sinking, it would never stand up by there without it

What do you mean

Stop your

That's why i said it's not because it looks like it is