Recent content by mark p

a "roof" board isn't necessary and when you use this keep your parts away from the corners, you need enough room to get gasflow to heat the part

good luck getting into jones for scrap they are pretty tight letting people in for the good stuff, all they will sell is car parts if you have a different place post it up I'm just over in buford

as a jeweler first a machinist much further down the list I can tell you. jewelers silver solder isn't a silver brazing alloy it is usually a sterling alloy (or germanium if thats what your working) easy med and hard refer to the flow temps hard has a higher melting point than easy for adding...

more than a paint job, the calibrated carriage advance is what I find most helpful

well I have a sherline mill and lathe, a taig lathe and a sieg 7*12 (and a few more :-\ ) the taig was first and is well built and very affordable the 7*12 is good for roughing larger parts out but without more work on the machine it's no good for repeatable work the sherline is in a class of...

realize that if you buy from him you will get your items, you will NOT get a response to emails. he is slow to ship sometimes but I've always gotten everything in good order

it depends on what you expect to do the clamps are weaker than the bag they come in, the table turns smooth with little axial backlash and is accuratly marked, however the lock is worthless and will let the table lift a bit if a cutter is pulling up on the work save and get the sherline (or by...

can anyone point me to a source for HO OO scale live steam plans? something along the lines of the hielscher-dampfmodelle "89"