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Well also living in Canada, I am a fan of the Basement Workshop. A we'll thought out entrance for easy machine access using lift...

mrbugbums If you are considering building New, ensure Bell provide Fibre to your location, you will never regret having a fibre...

Stephan, Take a bit of time for you and your wife to take some virtual shop tours. There are those on this forum and other forums...

I'm going to try to justify some of the craziness that I'm about to apply to these very expensive parts with some background theory...

The Rolls Royce V-12 Merlin, was one of the best known, if not most influential, WWII aero engines. It was deployed in the British...

There are some tricks to making a multi-plane crankshaft that we use to build crankshafts for the Black Widow V-8s which are...

Getting close, still a lot of small stuff to make and final assembly.

Have you seen Joe Pieczynski’s method? I haven't studied it enough to see if it would be applicable here, but the cool thing is that you...

I'm not sure if a four carb setup having 8 individual adjustments on a quarter scale engine having a marginal cooling system inside a...

The radiator was installed along with the engine's rather delicate water outlet pipe. The pipe was bolted down to three tiny flanges on...

Hi Mr Bugbums, I would absolutely agree with other members here; do not get a combination machine, you will regret it. I too used some...

I mighth ad to spend some time on Youtube , theres quit a few folks that are worth watching & alot of them do kind of eduicational...

I would say about a Milling Machine get one with a knee and as large as you have room and money, you will be glad you did..

The cam gear covers were gasket'd with Oracal vinyl before being installed, but the cam box covers were only temporarily set in place...

Mike, I was so close to the problem that I didn't realize that it wasn't clear in my sketch which holes were drilled where. I set the...