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Well I have made a start. Last week I had a 115mm x 130 mm length aluminum round which took me about 2 and a bit hours to do 3 cuts on my little 6x4 horizontal band saw .This week I decided to bore out the interior of the crankcase .Having done very little boring before I thought I would start...

Hello all. Nearly completed this grinder. Please watch . This gentleman takes you through his grinder and how it works. If you read the comments you see I asked a question to get a scale of things. Mine differs that I used cheap cnc rails and aluminum extrusion and all in all its quite...

Have a wonderful year everyone Cheers John

Hi All. Just wondering if anybody has seen these made of metal. They are sold for wood work but work very well for light duty sanding /polishing on to metal lathe . Being plastic they are not much chop on metal and require a bit of sanding to flatten out the blade. Very quick to change emery...

Hi All I have slitting saw job coming up in aluminum . The slitting saw is 63mm which is about 2.5" and 3mm about 1/8" wide and 38 teeth, straight hss blade which gives me the shivers just looking at it. I have looked up Little Machine Shops feeds and speed calculator and treated the saw as a...

Hi all. Just started building a twin cylinder sort of loosely designed on Longboy's engines, although already I can tell mine is going to be ugly. It's going to be as simple as I can make it and hopefully it will run.I have bought a slitting saw and boring head for the mill neither of which I...

Just a quicky, can brass be used for valve guides or is bronze a must.. Thankyou John

It's a Karl. About 8 months in the making for me so far due to many problems with the lathe , :wall: really bought a lemon there but it is now running well . Just the muffler and wiring to do.Still trying to figure out how to machine the muffler it's a domed type. Cheers John

I just rescued six worn out flanged bronze bushes from being scrapped at work . They measure id 90mm od 110mm without the flange and width 15.5mm . Just wondering if they might be useful to make fly wheels or add weight to one as it would be a shame for them to just go to scrap.

My sc4 I received just before Christmas has started playing up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM_kHyYAqd0 The problem sounds very mechanical but it all turns over very smoothly by hand. It is bring up ERR. error on the screen. This is an intermittent fault as other times it runs OK. I googled...

My little (ugly) wobbler, sort of half made to plans and materials I had on hand. It can run very slowly with a slight ticking noise except on the video where it sounds like it's going to blow up.It's sitting on a large tool chest.I am pretty pleased with my first effort and look forward to the...

This is my first ever project I have built. Thank you to cfellows and rodw ,works like a charm. Cheers John

It arrived. I got my lathe mill setup now (finally) .Not bolted down yet as I may want to move it a little. Now to make some stuff. First of some spacers for adjustable tangs on the live center and drill chuck tapers . Found that out the hard way :o. Cheers John

I just found this site and dont know if it is posted here. Absolutely beautiful engines. http://findsminimodelhotbulbengines.dk/index.html

Just wondering if these coils can be used as ignition coils. On Ebay. DC 4.8V to 50kV High-voltage Generator Boost Step-up Ignition Coil Power Module Cheers John

Hi.. Im John, from Bendigo,Australia. After lurking for ages I thought it maybe time to introduce my self. I have little knowledge of machining, just cnc Chinese flat bed router and a little experience with a hobbymat md65 lathe and mill combo witch I had 35 yrs ago. It proved too expensive...