Recent content by spedding84

Thanks for the encouragement everybody. I'll update as I do more on this engine. Thanks Daniel

Thanks for the encouragement. It was a very relaxing day. The stress leaves with every chip that hits the floor. My friends shop is in Alpharetta, Ga which is a suburb north of Atlanta. He has everything I would ever need and is willing to teach so it is really nice.

So last week after owning my mini-lathe for over a year I cleaned off the grease and turned a small finger ring out of stainless. Man did that put a bug in me. So this weekend a friend let me use his machine shop to start my first engine. It's a simple wobbler I got from these plans...

Yeah I'm in Covington. I'm Turning my first project this weekend. Just a simple ring. Gotta start somewhere. Thanks for all the replies everybody. Sure is a friendly forum. Seems like a tight knit group. I love it.

Thanks for all the replies. I appreciate the warm welcome. I will post pictures of my set up soon. I am still cleaning the shipping grease off of it. As far as interest, I just wanna start with a simple single cylinder air engine, preferable with a rotary valve and work my way up to a...

Hello, My name is Daniel. I am a heavy equipment mechanic. I discovered this site and joined a few weeks ago. I purchased a mini-lathe yesterday so now I feel worthy of introducing myself. I enjoy all of the info on the site and look forward to working with everyone. I would also like...