Recent content by machinist dave

Here's an interesting bit of information. It's always a challenge on decididing what proper and authentic colour scheme best suits a piece. Its interesting to here from the people who actually had to contend with this issue when machines where just coming of age.... Painting of...

I tip my hat to you sir. Your a testament to dedication and skill, just goes to show what happens when you have vision and ability.You've found the secret to being remembered for years to come.Im glad you shared!

i've been successful with filling the tube with a soft medium. plug both ends and fill with sand. i'v also filled tubes with solder and once its shaped melt it back out.worked every time. good luck

lol! when u gotta do it, you might as well enoy it. ;D

i was for awhile now i'm in alberta makin prototype oil field stuff.

304 and 316 ss wants sharp tools, slow speed and coolant.it cuts nice just keep it cool. it also has a good memory so if you heat it up there's a good chance it will deform when it cools down.i cut it everyday for about 10 yrs. ,once you get used to it you start to enjoy it, just remember no...

you'l find enough scraps around the saw to last a few yrs.

seeing as your in Penticton, go into Waycon manf. and see if you can get some offcuts, who knows what you'l find. :)

be careful it dosen't close up on the blade, if its hot rolled turn the skin off and use lots of coolant,back off the blade lots too to take care of any stresses on the blade.the bigger the pc. the bigger the chance of the steel closing up on the blade and breaking it.

your lucky to live so close, i'm in the process of drawing up plans for a Lombard , with all the good pics and info in the parts books its a wonder more models havent been built. the patened office also has lots of info. There's a Pheonix not for from here thats running. I choose the Lombard...

Perfect! thats just the place i was looking for, thank you very much Chuck! :) Thm:

would anyone know of a good place to find small sizes of formed metal, eg.channel,angle, square tube?

now that's a nice sturdy looking mill sir.I've thought for a long time about building a scale sawyer massey mill,similar to the scale you'v chosen.The detail of your model is quite impressive to say the least! if there was some sawdust around it , it would be easy to think perhaps the sawyer had...

WHEW! and i thought the day time job was all pressure! well, as things progress i'll make sure i keep things up to date.going to be a fun project thats for sure.

;D what a jackpot! between the patent drawings and website pics it shouldn't be to difficult to create some fairly workable drawings.theres some shots of a vertical boiler hauler thats very interesting! its great to see the shots of the various pcs. being restored that sure has answered several...