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If the center gear is .500” front gear 1.5” to 2”?

How would one about machining this gear? What would it be called as far as seeing if one is available to buy online?

Has anybody built one of the tin can hot air engines life size? Think it would be cool to have a low dollar 6" Rider Ericsson size display.

I have seen multiple videos of people doing lost wax or pla castings. They always dip it in a yellow liquid (plaster) and then put sand over it and then repeat till the have a nice shell. What is the proper name of the yellow liquid? I want to buy some but have not found a single place on the...

Picked up this ammonia/lp pump lately and the more I look at it the more I see a cylinder for a hit and miss engine.

Sounds like a over sized complicated cotton candy machine in the making here. Honestly I do not think it would be that hard. Pressurized pot set at the right temperature with a tiny nozzle. Replace the Dremel on your homemade cnc machine with the pot.

Tank is new. thinking of putting aluminum washers on black steel pipe as heat sink.

What is the spiral line that goes from the compressor to the tank called? I was given a large compressor that came out of an old service station. The tank has pin holes in it and I want to connect it to a different tank I have.

Saw these in a antique car book I have. This one might be a little more safer.

I currently run a Mazak laser for a sheet metal company. We cut up to .625" material. I am very interested in this and will be watching.

Only half hour from my house.

Drove over and looked at it today. Wow it is tiny!! Will look into a VFD. Did not know they made a 440V 2hp motor.

There is a Hardinge bb2v mill for sale locally and I might try and get it. According to the net it is 500 lbs but it is top heavy. Only way I have to haul it is a pickup. Can it be safely laid down or will this harm it? Am thinking an old tire under the mill part as a cushion. Also it has a 2hp...

Have you tried Menards or any other local home repair store?

I stand corrected. https://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb/antique-machinery-and-history/advance-rumely-lathe-350061/