Recent content by modeng2000

Tony, this is just to say that I follow your postings with great interest. You have such a fertile mind dreaming up these interesting engines. John

Thanks for the links, makes control so much easier.

Please follow-up with the hall effect sensor to potentiometer conversion.

Steamchick, I couldn't agree with you more, freedom!!

My barograph mechanism has a fair amount of 'stiction' in the pen movement and so I wonder if replacing the simple sleve bearings for point bearings as used for escapement wheels would be worth doing. I realise that the friction between pen and paper is one source of stiction but feel that the...

Interesting coincidence. I am about to advertise a digital height gauge on eBay this weekend. Looking for £30 plus any postage estimated at £8.60 John

Sorry folks, I forgot that this is a widely read site. Yes eBay UK :rolleyes:

Just type Stevenson's blocks in the eBay search box. John

This is just a heads up to say that I have placed my blocks on eBay as I no longer have a mill or lathe. John

Good luck Dave John

Hello Tony, good to see you posting again John

Hi norman, I too have had a face full of cutting oil but oil from a bearing is a new experience! I do agree with you about the motors. I'm used to induction motors and their constant speed but when needs must I'll use what ever seems best if it is to hand. A little thinking time now to take...

JCSteam, many thanks for your input, I do think that with a more powerful motor setup things would be much better. Turning small diameters is not a problem but anything more than say a couple of centimeters in diameter really loads the lathe and progress becomes very slow. My flycutting was...

Many thanks for the continuing interest in my project. John

Alas, now that I have some lathe tooling so as to use the lathe in earnest it turns out that it is very underpowered. There is up to around a 10 times speed reduction using the pullies but the 100w motor just isn't powerful enough even though other people suggest it for these small lathes. The...