Questions you'd like answering, regardless of how trivial they may seem

[Gwylan]

Most modern ones have detachable magnetic controls, so that they can be accessed safely.

They have always previously been n the left because that is where the headstock is, for right handed use. Having the headstock and controls at the left hand side of the lathe does NOT make the lathe left-handed.

When using the lathe, it is very difficult indeed to do so in a left handed manner. All the left hand does is hold the tool steady against the rest. The right hand does all the work. I've seen people using the lathe without using the left hand at all.

Exactly, distinct bias, challenge for left handers.

I was rubbish at woodwork. My teacher allowed, encouraged me to spend lots of time on research in the library.
Helped knocking off the homework.
He suggested once that I made the workshop look untidy, being the only left hander in the group.

 

[Conrad_K]

Huh. I've been doing it wrong for 40 years, then.

I can't see using a standard lathe right-handed without standing in the path of swarf and cutting fluid. Chip guards mostly don't, and only on short workpieces anyway, which is why most lathes don't even come with them to start with.

 

[Alex321]

Huh. I've been doing it wrong for 40 years, then.

I can't see using a standard lathe right-handed without standing in the path of swarf and cutting fluid. Chip guards mostly don't, and only on short workpieces anyway, which is why most lathes don't even come with them to start with.

Hmm.

It seems we were talking about different types of lathe here.

I was talking woodturning - where there isn't any "cutting fluid", and it is perfectly normal to be covered in the chippings within a fe seconds of starting.

I have never used a metal work lathe, and don't know how they operate in terms of the operator position. I can see you would be less happy about bits of metal flying in your direction though.

 

[Conrad_K]

I saw a woodturning lathe once, but I've never operated one.

By "lathe" I mean a turret or engine lathe, cutting metal.

 

[Alex321]

I saw a woodturning lathe once, but I've never operated one.

By "lathe" I mean a turret or engine lathe, cutting metal.

Ok.

I own a woodturning lathe, and use it regularly.

We need to be more specific than just "lathe", since they seem to be so different.

 

[grldtnr]

Why are so many supermarkets designed with an odd number of aisles, with the result that you go up one aisle, down the next, up the next, down the next, up the next... and finish up at the end farthest from the tills?

Marketing, innit ! You go up one aisle, come to the end then it's totally unrelated to one you just been.
What gets me is, how they periodically change the location of everything, forcing you to traipse around to find what you want.
And why is s the fruit & veg always at the entrance, everything else you buy gets dumped on top!

 

[grldtnr]

Just watched a programme on making the union Jack. This reminded me of an almost complete union Jack but with a part of it missing. Can't exactly remember which part now but I think it could be part of the diagonals or part of them.

Does anyone know of such a flag and what it is for? Could it be a union Jack for when some part leaves? SayIreland t the red of Ireland when iNorn Ireland eventually votes to leave the union?

I get quite incensed by people referring to the Union flag as a 'Jack' , it isn't , it's only a 'jack' when flown from the Jackstaff of HMS. Naval ships,and then only Royal naval vessels, conversely it's an Ensign when flown from the stern of the ship.
The Union flag to give it's correct name , and reference to your question , is the union of the Scottish saltire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿and the English🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 St.George Cross, the St.Patrick cross ❌ came quite late, I think after Cromwell subjugated the mostly Catholic Ireland, and settled Ulster with mostly Scots,

 

[matticus]

I get quite incensed by people referring to the Union flag as a 'Jack' , it isn't ,

It's good to have a hobby 👍

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

I get quite incensed by people referring to the Union flag as a 'Jack' , it isn't , it's only a 'jack' when flown from the Jackstaff of HMS. Naval ships,and then only Royal naval vessels, conversely it's an Ensign when flown from the stern of the ship.
The Union flag to give it's correct name , and reference to your question , is the union of the Scottish saltire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿and the English🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 St.George Cross, the St.Patrick cross ❌ came quite late, I think after Cromwell subjugated the mostly Catholic Ireland, and settled Ulster with mostly Scots,

That is technically correct in the Royal Navy

In normal civilian use calling it a Union Jack is correct

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom

I'll go and erect the armour plating on the house now!!!

 

[Alex321]

That is technically correct in the Royal Navy

In normal civilian use calling it a Union Jack is correct

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom

I'll go and erect the armour plating on the house now!!!

I never entirely trust Wikipeia on such matters, but following the link from there to the Flag Institute, you can find this article, which pretty definitively says both Union Flag and Union Jack are acceptable.
https://www.flaginstitute.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Union-Jack-or-Union-Flag.pdf

 

[Oldhippy]

A US service man once got very irate after asking me if I honoured 'my' flag replying that I couldn't care less in honesty.

 

[Alex321]

A US service man once got very irate after asking me if I honoured 'my' flag replying that I couldn't care less in honesty.

I have never understood the US attitude to their flag.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

A US service man once got very irate after asking me if I honoured 'my' flag replying that I couldn't care less in honesty.

I wouldn;t dishonour it

or any other country's flag for that matter
but I don;t go all worshippy over it

I also wouldn;t fly one outside my house that was all ragged and worn out - but then I wouldn;t fly one outside my house anyway
If I see one somewhere I might look at it but mostly just to wonder why it is there

The US really does have a problem with their flag

 

[grldtnr]

I never entirely trust Wikipeia on such matters, but following the link from there to the Flag Institute, you can find this article, which pretty definitively says both Union Flag and Union Jack are acceptable.
https://www.flaginstitute.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Union-Jack-or-Union-Flag.pdf

Not in my book ,It's not, but I am a bit of a stickler for flag etiquette being a lesuire sailor,and if I happen to be in foreign waters observe etiquette of that, and hoist a red ensign in the appropriate place,and the countesy flag of the host country. Which renders me the conventions of the protection of His Majesty governent.
I stand corrected on the incorporation of the St. Patrick cross tho' ,

 

[grldtnr]

A US service man once got very irate after asking me if I honoured 'my' flag replying that I couldn't care less in honesty.

I will salute the Union flag, but not the St.George cross, but only once a day.
It should be hauled down at last post , and hauled up at 'Revellie' , it saves on wear to the flag.
I am not a monarchist , but believe I am patriotic to my country.