Recent content by AnvilJack

Great photo, great project. What a brilliant engineering experience. Well done.

My TurboCAD User Guide, over 1300 A4 size pages, arrived today. Almost a phone book. I've spent a while looking through some of the sections. My first reaction is that this book will make further progress with TurboCAD so much easier. I understand that supplying software with such a large...

I must agree with BaronJ: with a little continual practise, some freehand pencil sketches where the ideas are basically firmed up, and about ten hours of video watching (and monkey see, monkey do, again and again), I have become somewhat confident to prepare very basic shop drawings in TurboCAD...

To my surprise, I have found some 80-odd tutorial videos for using TurboCAD on the TurboCAD DVD. I have used the first 20 of these over the past week, which were mainly about setting up the environment, units, printing, using viewports, etc. But the help I wanted to overcome the first hurdles...

OK, so I have TurboCAD 19 Deluxe on Windows 7, and found the manual pdf for this and a few tutorials on the net. Should I upgrade to version 21? (i.e. Is it worth it?) I like learning from books: are there any published tutorials for TurboCAD that I can buy, or am I best off seeking to learn...

Ia anyone using TurboCAD?

Keep us up to date with this project, please. Very interesting starting point for a furnace.

What I like best about all of this thread is the real work of forum members and their willingness to share their efforts. Most often, around the traps, I see a lot of "gunna" talk, and not much product. People learn by watching projects unfold. It is not the only way, and watching doesn't...

Yeah, nice cabinet. Even with night time photos. Well done.

OK, I'm late. But that was an exciting demo of steam at speed. Well done, Paul.

I hate wood: too dirty, flimsy, shifts and changes after the job is done, dusty stuff ... Much prefer the nice clean smoke and melt and grind experience,the brown chips, and the "it'll never split" of steel. How did the drawers finish up, Gus?

I have bought and sold two lathes, and now bought a third. I found that a Chinese manufactured lathe (same maker as my mill) has a product called a CQ6125 that seems to appear in a dozen different places, called something similar (Brand name of a retailer plus the CQ6125), but often with...

When you have the rotary table installed on the mill, with a bit of stock in the chuck, say, or clamped to the table, and a cutter in the mill, would you mind taking a few photos and putting them up. Let people see how your mill accommodates a 6" rotary table. Thanks.

First, I'm glad you're taking the time to chew it all over. Second, I would encourage you to buy just one, a lathe, or a mill. The learning curve is engaging, but still real, for you must work for precision. The tooling costs are equally real, and probably more diverse tools than you have...