I have produced all the drawings for a 2ft narrow gauge loco that is now running on the Lynton to Barnstaple railway in Devon. This loco is a recreation of an 1898 Baldwin for which there are no drawings but a lot of photos. The design was significantly modernised to improve the power and...
A couple of years ago a good friend of mine, Brian Turner, designed and built a competative 10cc controline stunt engine. As brian will have nothing to do with modern technology, computers etc, I leant him my digital camera and asked him to record the processes for making this engine. I knew it...
My Name is Mike Nelson and I have just joined. I make musical instruments, Model aeroplanes and a lot of model engineering things - mostly tools so far. I served a Scientific Instrument making apprenticeship at the Cambridge Scientific Instrument company and have spent most of the last 40+ years...