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After the boring operation and the interior cavities were finished with the dremel, needle and riffler files and emery cloth, work...

FWIW, and not suggesting anyone else do it, but when I was younger and at least thought I knew more, I used to braze automotive fuel...

The Ruston-Hornsby single cylinder diesel in the grain elevator my father managed had the same paper glow plug, from memory, it was a...

Methylated spirits 'denatures' ethyl alcohol by adding 10% methyl hydrate/methanol to it. Methanol/methyl hydrate, available at most...

To anneal A2 it is heated in a controlled atmosphere furnace at a rate not exceeding 400°F per hour (222°C per hour) to 1550°F (843°C)...

Hi, I finished Stewart Harts (Potty Engineering) design of the Simpson & Shipton steam engine. It was built from all bar stock, except...

FWIW, taps come in different sizes, there is an 'GH' tolerance designation on ground thread taps that designates the oversize in 0.0005...

Thank you for sharing the build. That's quite an achievement.

I tried glow plugs on a single cylinder engine, but it was too short to reach the combustion chamber Hi All ! A short video when the...

Admittedly they were different but I've rebuilt Bridgeport, my Excello 602 and a 15 horsepower, 8000 rpm spindle, all had angular...

Fashionable or not, you get what you pay for!

If it's Macor, I'm pretty sure it is, it can be machined with HSS, it does wear the tool but not so bad as to be unworkable. Here is...

Along the way two fixture blocks need to be made. One for the chuck end and one for the tailstock end. Both blocks need to be the same...

The next series of pictures show the tailstock end of the crank blank. This fixture block is as I mentioned earlier the same width and...

After the first throw is finished the crank blank is removed from the chuck fixture and put back in the mill. The second throw is...