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The Water Cooler / Re: Warning: Samsung phone udate to UI8 bricked my phone!
« Last post by BillTodd on Today at 07:01:13 AM »
Quote from: rleete on November 22, 2025, 08:04:37 PM
Wife's phone had the same problem last week.  Removed the sim card, waited a few minutes then reinserted and restarted.  All is well.

Unfortunately, this is not the case for the A53 5g  , Samsung have really knobbed up a whole range of phones with this one. 

One guy managed to flash UI7 back onto one only for an automatic update to bugger it up again. 

It has boosted the sale of phones, just not Samsung's
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Mod-Ups! / MOVED: Mini Lathe Compound Mod
« Last post by vtsteam on November 23, 2025, 06:10:03 PM »
This topic has been moved to Tools.

https://www.madmodder.net/index.php?topic=13947.0
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Tools / Re: Mini Lathe Compound Mod
« Last post by John Rudd on November 23, 2025, 04:54:20 PM »
Nice job if it works for you?. :beer:
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Announcements & Issues / Re: What happened to 'insert attachment' button?
« Last post by rleete on November 23, 2025, 04:34:45 PM »
Trying to post, no way to attach files.  Afterall, threads are worthless without pictures!
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Tools / Mini Lathe Compound Mod
« Last post by rleete on November 23, 2025, 04:33:23 PM »
Let me preface this by noting this was NOTmy original idea, but one found on the web.

One of the most frustrating things about the mini lathe (other than limited capacity) is changing the angle on the compound slide. Wind it all the way off, loosen screws, set angle, tighten screws, wind the slide back in place. Changing it back or setting another angle requires doing the whole process all over again. What a pain in the... wrist. Big Grin

This is one method of eliminating all the handle cranking. You simply mill two pockets in the sides of the compound base, allowing the use of studs and nuts which can be accessed without cranking the slide off. A quick turn of a wrench is all that is needed. I even glued a small magnet to the appropriate size wrench so it can be held on the backsplash within easy reach.

I first plugged the counterbores with brass plugs. In retrospect, this is probably not necessary. Then I plunge milled the side clearances and proceeded to clean out all the middle portion. It's not the cleanest machining I've ever done, but it is only clearance after all.

Note: You'll have to make or buy studs based on the pocket geometry.  Studs can thread in too far, locking the compound turntable thingy to the cross slide. I did the thing where you use a punch to distort the last thread (like on a T-nut) so they didn't bottom out.


Help!  I can't seem to attach images!
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Project Logs / Re: Building Bernard Tekippe`s Regulator Clock
« Last post by raynerd on November 23, 2025, 02:42:26 PM »
Evening all, hope everyone is well. I`ve finally got the clock in a case and got it inside!

https://youtu.be/Hmb1QpPgn2A
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The Water Cooler / Re: Warning: Samsung phone udate to UI8 bricked my phone!
« Last post by rleete on November 22, 2025, 08:04:37 PM »
Wife's phone had the same problem last week.  Removed the sim card, waited a few minutes then reinserted and restarted.  All is well.
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Member Videos / Re: My week this week, my workshop videos!
« Last post by hermetic on November 22, 2025, 11:18:07 AM »
Hi Folks,
 A short week due to getting daughters picked up from York, EICR's at the cottage and getting my new (to me) car delivered. It arrived, the cottage passed the EICR and My daughter dissapeared to her boyfriends! In the meantime there was tidying up, and antique repairs, with more to come, maybe next week! I lit the boiler in the workshop for the first time this year, and all worked perfectly! Then it snowed!
Phil, In snowy frozen east Yorkshire!
https://youtu.be/4GwPRPBKGVY
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The Water Cooler / Re: Warning: Samsung phone udate to UI8 bricked my phone!
« Last post by BillTodd on November 21, 2025, 02:46:48 AM »
It is astonishing how they change core functions without thoroughly testing them .  Phones need sims so detection is a fundamental activity and something that must be a well established stable piece of code which should not change. So  have they compiled a version with debug left in place ?
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Radio Control Models / Re: 1/16 scale Terramac RT7R
« Last post by ddmckee54 on November 20, 2025, 07:39:06 PM »
Hopefully it will have all the functions of the full sized version.

I wound printing the lift parts twice.  August was the last time I used the printer and I forgot that I didn't need to scale the parts before slicing anymore - so all the parts were too big the first time.   After a Homer Simpson moment. I took out the 103% scaling, re-sliced, and reprinted the parts.  I then discovered that I had an interference problem between the inner link and the outer link.  The inner link was hitting the edge of the outer link and not allowing the lift to fold completely shut.  After a minor re-design and re-print for the outer link I have what will eventually be the scissor hoist for the dump bed.  Below is the lift in its' folded configuration.

That's a AAA battery in front for a size reference. 


This is what the lift will look like when opened up.

That's a roll of 1" painter's tape that the lift is propped up against.  If my calculations are correct, this should give me almost 60 degrees of bed tilt.  That's an M4 x 55mm screw coming out of the gearbox, and my measurements show I only need about 12-15mm of travel from the lead-nut.  With the gear reduction I've got, that should mean about 30 seconds to lift or lower the bed.  I've still got to build the lead-nut assembly, but it's just going to be an M4 nut, some steel brake line, and a piece of brass for the pivot.
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