Recent content by rogbo

I'll try Google books, I just found archive.org looking for a mechanical drawing book.

Great build from a classic magazine. I hope it's not hijacking the thread, but I recently found archive dot org, where quite a few classic magazines lost to time are scanned and published. Below is a link to whole year of 1936 popular mechanics available to read on line, download individually...

This weekend’s machine shop time was mostly an exercise in frustration. My Jet Mill motor started smoking, my two pistons went south, and my tool post fell apart. I did get my Harley motor that DeadEx crushed in shipment torn down though and my Buell Blast Piglet back on the road. For whatever...

Thanks all for the feedback. The board and its members are a fantastic source of information. In the seventies and eighties I was a mechanic and you had to be related to someone or be an apprentice to get this kind of knowledge found here. Next on to the pistons!

So I was not as happy with my fins on Sunday morning as I was on Saturday night so I got back at it and made another one. The first thing I didn’t like was the fins were a to narrow and the grooves to big. I double checked my grooving tool - a ground down parting tool and it was closer to .050...

I finally got the first chips cut on my first project in with my new to me tools. I chose as my first project the Poppin air-cooled vacuum engine by Dr. J. R. Sentf from Live Steam November 1980. The internet has hundreds of plans but I chose this for its well documented build steps and many...

Thanks all! I will get some of that gray bar ordered up and start making chips. I got a bunch of 1" OD cold roll i scrapped learning how to thread so I am going to start practicing cutting my cylinder on that. The reason I chose Dr. Senft's Poppin was the detailed machining instructions perfect...

Thanks for all the hellos! I should have asked this in my post, but can someone tell me where to find meehanite bars or a good alternative. It is the first ingredient in my popper build and so far I am at a loss as where to find it. Stainless steel was the recommended alternative and that is...

Hi my name is Roger and I am from Berkeley California. I just got a Jet Bridgeport clone, an Atlas 12 inch, and a car load of tooling from my buddy that retired. I took a machining class because I wanted to make parts for my Harley rebuild and don’t like to buy stuff. While researching lathe and...