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I have known the current owner of Coles for many years and reached out to him this morning to update your information. He said: The people before us that were in the movie business are the ones that were foreclosed on. My dad bought it from Betty outright and ran till we lost the foundry...

A real masterclass in how to make rods and bearings. Thank you.

Here is a method I use to mill large radius's. This particular setup is for putting a very large radius inside the axle box on the 1.6" scale Mikado locomotive I built some years ago but will work for smaller parts also. The radius was required so the ends of the axles can independently move...

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That makes a fairly good seat for a ball if you are making a check valve. If I don't feel like grinding a single lip cutter for the job, I will use an end mill for this. Doug

Bill Harris was an excellent designer of steam powered logging equipment in addition to the steam roller. I have a signed copy of his book "Logging with Steam" in which he lays out and describes plans for a 2 truck Shay, steam crane, and Falk logging engine. Part of the Shay is a little steam...

I think it's very clever. The screw on the side may or may not be tapered, but in any case, I would guess it's purpose is to lock the pillars inside the tube by forcing two of them apart which in turn would force all of them to press on the inside edges of the tube. That would lock them in...

Terryd - Yes. I now have all the information I need. Thank you for your offer though. Doug B.

Thank you for the offer of the nuts and bolts but I got lucky and found the missing ones yesterday in the bottom of the box I'm keeping the castings in. I had separated them by sizes and put them in little bags. Somehow I missed this one bag in the bottom of the box. When I started this...

Chris W. was able to provide the parts list I was looking for. I have checked it against the nuts and bolts in the kit and discovered I was missing (4) 5BA bolts. I can work with that. Along with some other files, Gerald Pierce also provided a copy of Model Engineer showing an outstanding...

Gerald, Your engine is beautiful. I hope I can do mine as well. I especially enjoyed the slow motion part of the video. Yes, I believe a copy of your parts list might be what I am looking for. The parts drawing I have is numbered 90048 and the latest date on it is 18-12-80. The assembly...

These are all good shortcuts, and I have tried them all at one time or another, but I have found the only way to get true accuracy on the vice is to tram it with an indicator. It might seem like a pain, but in the long run it's only a few minutes out of your machining time. A machinists square...

Really fine looking work here.

I have recently started building a Stuart Beam Engine kit that dates from 1985 and am hoping that someone will have a copy of the old parts list for a Stuart beam engine that they would be willing to share. I understand copywrite laws well, and am not interested in violating them, but Stuart is...

I have the whole machine in my shop and it's become my best friend. I purchased it a tool auction probably 12 years ago or so. It only took me10 years more to learn how to use it properly from the translated from the Chinese manual that came with it. I subscribe to a forum called The Tool and...