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If you drill 4 no 1\4" holes in the body 1\4" deep you can use the collet spanner insead of machining a hex works a treat .

Fire bricks all round enclose as much as you can just leave one side to work in , I use a 30mm torch with a flare of about 100mm long , to stop it blowing out from the blow back that has no oxygen left in it .

1.5 x 8 is Boxford , South Bend 9" , Smart and Brown and Viceroy , you can buy ready machined back plates for these lathes , but they will be the same as yours needing a touch on the register , it's cheaper to buy a machined back plate than a plane casting .

What's needed is a 90 degree drive dog , a zip tie will have some movement but may do for light work , haven't seen dogs in catalogues for awhile .

I have just last week upgraded my SB 9" with larger dials , and what a difference the extra 3\4" makes so much clearer and easer to read , a 100 tooth gear will work just need some ingenuity to mount and lock to cut .

That hole is probably part of a safety device to stop the power feeds and the half nuts being engaged at the same time , and the idler gear was probably on a fork , that's all guess work on my part .

Yahoo has changed all forums not for the better , the south Bend one is still hard work to find anything .

ARC do a guide for setting up Chinese lathes http://www.arceurotrade.co.uk/Catalogue/Machines-Accessories/Lathes/Model-C3-Mini-Lathe/Model-Super-C3-Mini-Lathe

You are right about the wheels I made mine from mild steel brazed together , and took a lot of work to do , the fire box is very small and it was tricky to control the fire , when I got it to steam it was powerful and could pull quite a load .

You need to make a new disk with 20 holes , will give you 200 and any no divided into it . Jeff

My first motor cycle clutch was cork inserts between steel plates , A 1949 B S A .

I would go for the 100 at 2 1\2 " as the tool holders will be bigger to match the base , it may limit the diameter you can turn , and may not let the tool past the chuck .

A siren is two tubes one rotating inside the other with slots cut in both . Google siren noisemaker .

The small external hard drives have laptop hard drives in them , get a small one and fit yours in you could then try booting from USB from the post ie as a boot up .

There are free plans for feathered paddle boats out there , search for Strongbow its in German and it is on a free steam engine site ,