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Look up the movie called "Hugo", there is an automaton featured in it. Good movie, I think it won some awards.

Haha, someone else with numbers written all over their vise!!!:D Nice start on the engine

Hi Annie, welcome once again from Canada! I think you might find these sites interesting- Paul Brodie became very well known building "Brodie" bicycles, but now is into a variety of things like vintage bicycles and motorcycles. These are not models but full scale, working replicas. He recently...

Mosey, you could also consider using a pliable material such as soft rubber in place of the "half hole". Makes the tooling much simpler and it is "one size fits all". We have done this at work many times when the depth of the bend is not too deep. I think the rubber we use is old conveyor...

I was thinking that "ALE" was what you rewarded yourself with for a job well done :big: For this post you deserve an ale Ralph!

You had me at Shay! I will be watching with keen interest...

I tend to agree with Ned; "glowing" jumped out at me too! A slow application of heat to the heavy part to the point where the solder flows and no more should do the trick.

Thanks Larry for the pictures and description :)

Would someone mind describing what a tube roller is and how it works? Thanks

Never mind how much you expect to buy, how much do you want to buy? Jeff

I like where this build is going! You might find some interest in the fact that the company I work for built driver springs for the Dollywood loci in 2006. The drawings I made are for a 1943 Baldwin N gauge. Not only that, but just this morning we shipped a job (4 leaf springs) to the White...

Too cool! Thanks for sharing the photos. Gunstock copy lathe? Who would've thought!

The photo with the pliers put this project back into perspective for me :bow: Nicely done!

I had a feeling that was the engine you were refering to ;) I have been building one for a while now and posting my progress here: http://www.homemodelenginemachinist.com/index.php?topic=4864.0 :hDe: does this link work ??? Some of my pictures show my silver soldering results at various...

I agree with what the others have said; and I actually prefer silver to soft solder! By the way, do you care to share any details of the V-4?

I don't have any first hand experience with the Sherline mill (I have a Taig lathe), but remember to leave some room in your budget for accessories!

Brilliant, Vernon. What a great thread :bow:

Welcome neighbor :) This really is a cool place to hang out ;D

Fair enough Bob. I think it would be safe to assume that your lump of steel has virtualy no internal stresses within it. The same could not be said of a typical piece of cold rolled or to a lesser extent hot rolled flat bar. Removing material as you have done from a cold worked bar could cause...

Nice progress Bob Thm: Just curious, when you milled out all that excess material from the crank, did you notice any distortion in the blank? I don't recall what the material is or if you normalized (annealed) it at any point ???