Recent content by paulj84003

I believe the plans were in Popular Mechanic magazine many years ago. Jim

Birk, sure looks nice, eaiser to see your models now, your sheds were getting a little filled. BTW, Monte is coming this way on Tuesday the 22nd of this month, I believe George is comming with him. Last week I made a valveless engine 3/4" bore. only moving parts are piston, conrod, crank and...

In my shop I have the normal parallels that are obtained from the tool supply houses. In addition, I use some unconventional parallels, these are bearing races from transmissions, engines, large and small bearings. they are ground to close tollerances and parallel. They work on the mill and as...

BW, I made all the fittings on my roller, The jigs that I used to make the L's, T's, and 45's are shown in a Live Steam Mag article May/June 2004 Jim

Here are a couple photos of the unidentical twin, Jim

Have you givin any thought to making the gear out of aluminum, using a very narrow face on the teeth. and or making an alum gear attaching it with a shear pin.

I have seen that designation on special taps like 1/4-48 but I believe it can also mean standard. Paul

Regarding power tapping, I have both a Tapmatic and a Procunier tapping head, they haven't been used since I used to do some production work of several hundred holes at a time. When I am working on a project, wheather it be a model engine or some other device I use my drill press, Bridgeport...