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Excellent - thank you very much ...and even better my calculations were correct :) Regards Chris

Thank you for your comprehensive and helpful information - I am experimenting with gear cutting and have bought a Mod 0.5 20 degree #6 34-54 tooth cutter? (I tend to work in metric, I am in the UK) I also found some information on this site...

Hello Chuck - think I have found the post; http://www.homemodelenginemachinist.com/f25/curved-classic-s-spoke-flywheel-construction-2811/ But as you will see all the images are missing which makes it pretty hard to follow? Hopefully if cedge (Steve?) reads this he might be able to help? I...

Hello - I am going to have a go at using my new rotary table to make my first spoked flywheel over the weekend (and probably a few after!) using Marv Klotz's excellent tapered spoke calculation program (thanks!) and wondered if you ever did the write up on the curved spoke creation? Regards...

Hello Sandy Not sure if you are still watching this forum but I am looking for a small boiler to run my first two steam engines - and your designs looked ideal, but none of the images in photobucket display? I have got the plans for the 3 inch vertical and will have a go but it is nice to...

According to one of the previous posts... "Dirk Tollenaar maintains several Yahoo Groups regarding Elmer's Engines. He is the copyright holder for the "Elmer's Engines" book and he is kind enough to share it's contents for free to anyone who joins his Yahoo groups." I am waiting for...

Apologies, I missed that - should have read the whole page! I already have the plans from the site you mentioned but was hoping to find some better images, to show how to put things together? Sometimes having a image helps orientate things or perhaps add some cosmetic changes but I can...

I checked your site out Tom, for plans for Elmer's engines - but it looks like all the links are broken? At least the few I tried... Regards Chris

Never had the rear cover plate off but that sounds like a reasonable thing to check, thanks. I have had the odd time when the spindle speed display goes blank but turning the mains power off and back on again sorted it out - could be a loose plug though... Spent the weekend starting to fit a...

Little while after the event, but if it helps anyone I got this sorted out - took the rear cover and milling head off, and the milling table. Left the electronics attached to the milling head and used a sack trolley to get it up the stairs - on my own (carefully!) but it took some effort. I...

Hello, thanks for posting your install info - I have also got a similar DRO and an SX3 which I am going to start installing this weekend? Your photos will help a lot, I started installing the display and support arm last night, in exactly the same place as yours, but was not very confident...

We have one of these trolleys in the office and they have already agreed to let me borrow it for the weekend so I think I am fixed up now (famous last words...) Mind you, I am in the UK and a few years ago our boy scouts used to have something called 'Bob a Job' week - they call door to door...

Thanks Rod - I would have preferred not to have dismantled it the minute it was delivered but Arc Euro Trade warned me about the weight - of course if I could talk one of my cronies into taking the day off work, and as you say borrow a trolley this might not be a problem although getting the...

If you have a look at the UK supplier (www.arceurotrade.co.uk) they have the stand dimensions shown? (look under 'Machines and Accessories') (I know because I asked them the same question) I too will be leaving my SX3 out overnight - because I have to dismantle it to get it to my (upstairs)...