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[EdK]

(01-18-2013, 09:24 AM)Sunset Machine Wrote: Reminds me of a neighbor lady who overfilled her car's engine with oil and was trying to draw it down by repeatedly wiping the dipstick clean... <chuckle>

Ed

[Highpower]

(01-18-2013, 09:24 AM)Sunset Machine Wrote: Reminds me of a neighbor lady who overfilled her car's engine with oil and was trying to draw it down by repeatedly wiping the dipstick clean... <chuckle>

Yup. That's a good one.

I wonder if she is the same lady that went into the auto parts store asking for a "Seven-ten" cap (710) for her cars engine?

(Hint: Look at it upside down...)

[Mayhem]

My Dad had a customer once who poured oil down the carburetor on her VW Beetle, as it said "Oil" on the air cleaner (as in an oil impregnated filter)!

Mind you, not as bad as one of the high school bus drivers who put petrol (gasoline) into the tank when he filled her up

[stevec]

(01-18-2013, 11:01 AM)Mayhem Wrote: My Dad had a customer once who poured oil down the carburetor on her VW Beetle, as it said "Oil" on the air cleaner (as in an oil impregnated filter)!

Mind you, not as bad as one of the high school bus drivers who put petrol (gasoline) into the tank when he filled her up

I'm guessing it was a diesel bus, right? Makes ya feel warm and fuzzy about sending your kids or grandkids off to school in a bus driven by such astute specimens.

[Highpower]

(01-18-2013, 11:01 AM)Mayhem Wrote: Mind you, not as bad as one of the high school bus drivers who put petrol (gasoline) into the tank when he filled her up

I can't count the number of gasoline vehicles I've had to drain the tanks and flush the fuel systems on. People are always in such a hurry they will pull up to the one and only UNUSED pump at a busy gas (petrol) station to fill up, and feel "lucky" to have found the one that everybody else missed.

5 minutes later they have the car towed in saying "It just quit running, and I know it isn't out of gas because I just filled it up."

Yes - you did..... with diesel fuel.
And it's usually a woman, but not always.

[EdK]

(01-18-2013, 10:53 AM)Highpower Wrote: I wonder if she is the same lady that went into the auto parts store asking for a "Seven-ten" cap (710) for her cars engine?

(Hint: Look at it upside down...)

Another

Ed

[stevec]

(01-18-2013, 12:32 PM)Highpower Wrote: 5 minutes later they have the car towed in saying "It just quit running, and I know it isn't out of gas because I just filled it up."

Yes - you did..... with diesel fuel.
And it's usually a woman, but not always.

I wonder how she selected the "grade" of diesel fuel for her car.

[ieezitin]

Lads
Going back on topic (veering off does not bother me I always find it interesting when it happens) I have some findings in my leveling adventure.

I posted this on another forum and I got allot of banter on the use on Digital levels, mainly in the area of how they work. It was pointed out to me that the digital level works by giving you the sum total of error (mine gives you either % or Degrees) in either direction, or another way to look at it is it just gives you a report its not level by whatever. ok!
It does true. But what I was experiencing was a conflict with a variance in the sum numbers not being equal When I turned the level 180* to double check its readout.

Missing my original instructions that came with it I got to study the LCD display and the menu buttons on it, in my mind this is what I came up with on how this should work. Example if it displayed 0.1* high left, turned around it should read either 0.1* high left OR 0.1* low right (if I am wrong please explain) but I don’t, I got for example o.1* then turned around it reads 0.0, and I could check one area move somewhere else and then come back to the same spot and it would read 0.2 turned around 0.0 and it would flutter.

This is my assessment, don’t use a digital level for fine work ever for this one reason, it flutters with its readings and introduces doubt where your trying to concentrate to achieve something (I called it lying), it consumes so much time in trying to fix something that has many causes for its errors, I analogize this to a fly buzzing around your brain stopping abruptly to catch its breath then taking off again. They are not worth your time or money.

I do have a Inclinometer which I dragged out, ten minutes and a pint later I had it tuned in on a non-level lathe, an hour later 4 more pints the machine was level X-Y, accept for six inch stretch in the middle, this is not the levels fault I plainly blame Atlas for that, the bed is too long with not enough meat to support its self, hence the original fly gaining some company.

Anthony

[Highpower]

(01-19-2013, 12:08 PM)ieezitin Wrote: ...But what I was experiencing was a conflict with a variance in the sum numbers not being equal When I turned the level 180* to double check its readout.

Missing my original instructions that came with it I got to study the LCD display and the menu buttons on it, in my mind this is what I came up with on how this should work. Example if it displayed 0.1* high left, turned around it should read either 0.1* high left OR 0.1* low right (if I am wrong please explain) but I don’t, I got for example o.1* then turned around it reads 0.0, and I could check one area move somewhere else and then come back to the same spot and it would read 0.2 turned around 0.0 and it would flutter.

I'm going to have to try this with my digital level. I know it has a 0.1° resolution (6 minutes) but I'm now curious now and will have to see what happens under those conditions.

[Sunset Machine]

(01-19-2013, 12:08 PM)ieezitin Wrote: Lads
Going back on topic (veering off does not bother me I always find it interesting when it happens) I have some findings in my leveling adventure.

My fault, sorry. You sounded frustrated by using a cheap level. Lathes can be set up without them at the expense of time. It takes a couple of hours, starting with a two-collar spindle test in the chuck and then several collars on a long bar between centers. Be warned though - it's not obvious at all, some imagination required. For example, tailstock droop/slop and spindle bearing condition can confound you, but with patience you'll end up averaged for wear, a good thing.