Recent content by idahoan

I built three Moriya fans years ago, one for me and two as gifts. As you can see I made a few changes to suit my tastes at the time. They have always been great runners.

This is what I used on my 40 year old floor earlier this year. https://www.nclonline.com/products/view/STAMINA_ I have been pretty happy with it and it can be stripped and reapplied. Dave

I have had good luck using Press N Peel Blue and ferric chloride. Dave

Nice job, looks great! Dave

I think those photos are of the finished vise, aperently I'm not able to edit that post? I will add the photos in a reply later today when I get home from work. Dave

I haven't read the magazine article but have built the vise and I'm also responsible for creating the 3D CAD and 2D drawings. The only special tool that I recall having to make was the bushing to broach the key way. I did post a build thread located here...

Machining one of the Model Builder Vises is really pretty straight forward, I thought that I covered all the steps pretty well in my build thread. Dave

you could try here, https://sdp-si.com/tools/center-distance-designer.php I think you will have to tweak you center distance for a stock belt to work.

I did the 3d CAD and drawings for the vise I also did a build thread located here. https://www.homemodelenginemachinist.com/threads/one-more-morrison-marvin-model-builders-vise.16291/ It was a fun project and the lost wax steel castings were top notch! Marvin did the original CAD that he cut...

I don't have any hard data to to say either way but my personal feeling is the solid base shouldn't make any difference in weather it runs or not. I will be interested in seeing your build. Dave

I haven't built it but I do have it mostly modeled in Alibre Design. I purchased the castings a drawings off eBay some years ago and played around with modeling it. I have made some changes on the mounting of the cylinder and main bearing supports. I didn't really care for the stand offs on the...

We have a simular setup on a commercial 3D printer at work. Their recommendation for lube is Super Lube oil. Dave

On a hot tube engine you need the compression to push the mixture into the heated portion of the tube, I would think that if you had an ideal mixture coming in through the intake valve, the spark plug would not have any trouble lighting it off. I considered this option on my Little Brother...

I did forget about the Atom component in this equation. Dave

Hi Jason I did indicate that my method is useful if you have already created your drawing and needed to edit the visibility because you didn't do it at the creation of the drawing. Lots of different ways to accomplish the same end result. The manage edge command is also useful. Richard Yes...