wow
nice work! 
So, to drift OT a little as my mind is wandering - why is the world bothered about car (and the like) CO2 emissions yet wilfully use the stuff for welding, beer pumping and fizzy drinks. There must be billions of tones of that released into the atmosphere every year!
Because it's easier to tax fossil fuels and their users, because there's no alternative at the moment.
THAT is why the government was all-fired anxious to introduce GPS-based road-usage charging - That wouldn't be affected by the switch to electric propulsion...
As for my MIG (metal inert gas) welder and CO2 I only squirt a mist of CO2 over the weld to stop oxidising while I weld.
It takes me about 5 years to go through 2 CO2 tanks about 1M tall, a car pumps out loads of CO2. Having said that my usage may be low but not the electric welding industry as a whole 
Yes I blame the pubs not the cars and all these fizzy drinks 
I got a quote today for the 2 stub axles I am having turned for me £175 +VAT 
Oh well I don’t drink and at least I will have something fun to tow at the end of all this.
Maybe I should buy the square bar stubs from the manufacturer. Code SS50U565 or SS45U565
http://www.secureonlineshopping.biz/and ... Stub+Axles
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here a picture of that part oddball
its a reduce drive gearbox, 1 turn of the wheel = 1mm turn on the screw
it could be used for traverse or elevation, just weld a handle to the wheel
let me know if you want it mate you can have it for nowt, just come and get it as im fooked if im posting it, its about 1 kilo in weight
just so you know, the orange strap is 2 inches wide for scale,
the parts now downstairs in my front porch 
"Take that you rotton helping of strawberry flan!"
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That would do nice in the traverse if I had a gear on the threaded part and the unit was upside down to how it is in the picture. A starter motor gear into a section of ring gear off a flywheel would work but I have sort of decided to keep is simple in that area now but thanks for the offer mate
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no worries
"Take that you rotton helping of strawberry flan!"
Joseph Porta to "strawberrys and cream", in the sven hassel book ,ogpu prison
Because it's easier to tax fossil fuels and their users, because there's no alternative at the moment. THAT is why the government was all-fired anxious to introduce GPS-based road-usage charging - That wouldn't be affected by the switch to electric propulsion...
Hardly a new thing. TRL (Transport Research Laboratory) were looking at road tolling systems (on a government research project) when I worked there for a while back in 1994!
When we were a Kingdom it was run by a King
When we were an Empire it was run by an Empress
Now we're a country we're run by a..........
Just about everything man does creates CO2, so who ever decided to put a TAX on the stuff came up with the ultimate money maker.
Maybe we will have a CO2 TAX on new births soon, I am sure someone has been calculating the CO2 produced to sustain each person on earth and all the animal life created CO2 they consume in food during a life time.
I would think someone playing football produces more CO2 in a year then I release welding, so please put a whopping TAX on football to keep me happy
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The idea of taxing CO2 emissions is supposed to reduce "pollution that harms the environment and contributes to climate change" by putting on price pressure so reducing demand. And they chose the one thing that it is next to impossible to reduce in a short term and is therefore extortion. I mean, we could instantly ban adding CO2 to fizzy drinks and it wouldn't matter a jot (in any meaningful way) and CO2 emissions would be billions of tons less instantly. And don't get me started on carbon credits and carbon trading - a multi-billion finance scam created from nothing at all and simply moved steel making from Europe to Asia and created one of the world's wealthiest men (and no reduction in overall energy use)!
The idea of taxing CO2 emissions is supposed to reduce "pollution that harms the environment and contributes to climate change" by putting on price pressure so reducing demand. And they chose the one thing that it is next to impossible to reduce in a short term and is therefore extortion. I mean, we could instantly ban adding CO2 to fizzy drinks and it wouldn't matter a jot (in any meaningful way) and CO2 emissions would be billions of tons less instantly. And don't get me started on carbon credits and carbon trading - a multi-billion finance scam created from nothing at all and simply moved steel making from Europe to Asia and created one of the world's wealthiest men (and no reduction in overall energy use)!
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Anyhoo, about these reduce drive gearboxes - I'm intrigued by the ratios required...
Well then
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Still no wheels on it yet sorry 
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Still no hubs yet so I thought I would throw it together loose with the wheels leaning.
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Looks the business Nige!!!
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Heh, I have been photographing welding for 35 years and your post was a surprise to me that you use CO2! I've never even looked at the bottles. Of course, I know of of argon welding so stupid of me not to know about CO2.
So, to drift OT a little as my mind is wandering - why is the world bothered about car (and the like) CO2 emissions yet wilfully use the stuff for welding, beer pumping and fizzy drinks. There must be billions of tones of that released into the atmosphere every year!
Carbon monoxide is the one from cars you numpt 
The big CO2 comes from power generation using fossil fuels .
I know they were just teaching you alchaemy instead of chemistry when you were tutored but really.... keep up .
@ Nige ......re bangs , have you considered aquiring a crow scarer device. You'd need ot camouflage a gas bottle, but it load cheap and electrically controlled and easily acquired .
He's already using a bird scarer I think...
Show me a man who will jump out of an airplane, and I'll show you a man who will fight!
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CRY HAVOC AND LET LOOSE THE DOGS OF WAR
Not so dear oldy, keep up. Carbon monoxide went out with the advent of catalytic converters (that other monstrous expense, using rare metals in the process). You are taxed on the amount of CO2 your car produces and the aim of higher fuel duties was to reduce consumption so reducing CO2 - because CO2 IS BAD (supposedly adding to the greenhouse effect of the atmosphere).
He's already using a bird scarer I think...
that'll teach me not to read all of the thread
Not so dear oldy, keep up. Carbon monoxide went out with the advent of catalytic converters (that other monstrous expense, using rare metals in the process). You are taxed on the amount of CO2 your car produces and the aim of higher fuel duties was to reduce consumption so reducing CO2 - because CO2 IS BAD (supposedly adding to the greenhouse effect of the atmosphere).
Dammit.... beasted by the real "old one" . My girlfriend reckons you're wrong , but points out that methene is more potent than carbon dioxide in terms of greenhouse gasses .Soddit I'm off to the pub to get some CO2 plus beer.
