Yes, on a lathe. Though probably not a wheel lathe. Your turn.
It is used to set the pitch for screw (thread) cutting. Other types of gearbox are available.
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It is used to set the pitch for screw (thread) cutting. Other types of gearbox are available.
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Steddenm
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Which TV show originally starred on BBC One, was axed, revived on BBC One before being transferred to ITV. Then axed again, a one-off special was on ITV, before being recently revived again on BBC One?
Which TV show originally starred on BBC One, was axed, revived on BBC One before being transferred to ITV. Then axed again, a one-off special was on ITV, before being recently revived again on BBC One?
D6130
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Match of the Day?
Steddenm
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Cheers,
Open floor
htafc
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What is the name of the RHS garden located in Harrogate?
DaleCooper
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A rectangular hollow section garden would be more appropriate in Sheffield.
htafc
Member
Very funny!
To make it clear, I am referring to the 'Royal Horticultural Society' abbreviation.
htafc
Member
Correct! All yours my friend
Thank you.
Why is Westminster in Cheshire, Norfolk in Sussex, Richmond in Sussex and Bedford in Bedfordshire?
Gloster
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Is this the seats of the so titled Dukes?
They are indeed. Please take your seat.
Gloster
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Which literary character ran a bookshop in Devon for many years?
GRALISTAIR
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Wild guess One of Enid Blytons famous 5 ?
Gloster
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Sorry, no.
DaleCooper
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Miss Marple?
Gloster
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Sorry, no.
Correct. He ran a shop in Dartmouth from 1951.
Your turn to set.
Thanks.
A thing from the past -- a cause of amusement to more-modern types, but deadly serious at the time, to those who engaged in it -- is the 17th-century Puritans' practice of giving their children, wordy and religiously-referenced first names. A kind of "meme" re this, often cited: is Praise-God Barebone. Some of the characters bearing such names, are authors' flights of fancy; but Mr. Barebone really existed. For what (minute details not required) does he basically feature in the history books?
A thing from the past -- a cause of amusement to more-modern types, but deadly serious at the time, to those who engaged in it -- is the 17th-century Puritans' practice of giving their children, wordy and religiously-referenced first names. A kind of "meme" re this, often cited: is Praise-God Barebone. Some of the characters bearing such names, are authors' flights of fancy; but Mr. Barebone really existed. For what (minute details not required) does he basically feature in the history books?
DaleCooper
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Was he a witchfinder?
No -- whatever his views on this stuff may have been, he is not recorded as being active in it.
Gloster
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Was he an MP in the mid-seventeenth century (1640s or 1650s)?
DaleCooper
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Was he on the Mayflower?
GRALISTAIR
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Extreme Puritan - supported Olver Cromwell rather than the monarchy?
Praise-God Barebone, c. 1598 -- 1679: leather-seller, preacher, religious radical, and member of governing / advisory bodies.
I said I wouldn't insist on minute detail -- so this will do. Appointed in 1653 as a member of Cromwell's Parliament-substitute, the Nominated Assembly; member of the Common Council of the City of London, 1657 -- 1660.
No -- he'd seem to have opted to stay in England and do what he could to see that matters went rightly -- according to his view of things -- here.
He indeed opposed, in speech and writing, the 1660 restoration of the Monarchy -- wished the Commonwealth to continue in force; and got into trouble, though not calamitously, for this.
@Gloster: you posted first, and were basically right by my specification. Yours to set the next question.
I said I wouldn't insist on minute detail -- so this will do. Appointed in 1653 as a member of Cromwell's Parliament-substitute, the Nominated Assembly; member of the Common Council of the City of London, 1657 -- 1660.
No -- he'd seem to have opted to stay in England and do what he could to see that matters went rightly -- according to his view of things -- here.
He indeed opposed, in speech and writing, the 1660 restoration of the Monarchy -- wished the Commonwealth to continue in force; and got into trouble, though not calamitously, for this.
@Gloster: you posted first, and were basically right by my specification. Yours to set the next question.
Gloster
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Who was the ‘founder’ (possibly ‘co-founder’) and spokesman of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Long-haired Men?