jcreasey

The rings are about 1/8" wide and 1/16" thick. They were supplied with the castings and there was no issues stretching them over the...

Nice approach on that custom collet in the 4 jaw. Top work.

A proper job! Recently, trying to drill a 1.25mm hole - using the 3 jaw chuck to hold the drill on my 8in lathe, I found the chuck...

Part 9 - Making the Piston First job was to clean up the casting. Despite what the plans specified I decided not to rely on the thread...

its the parallelism that matters and it looks like you've achieved that, well done !!!, the actual height can be anything with the cross...

It's as parallel as I can measure, and it's bang on 0.5"

Delighted to say that I've pretty much finished the Kiwi Mark II and it is a runner! The thin-walled aluminium float seems to work well...