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Lately Dad and I have been talking about making a piston valve (Of the baker design of vaportight baker valves and piston rings circa 1905) for our half scale 65 horse case traction engine. I do not have the full size valve on our big engine to mesure. But, i do have the one out of our 20 horse...

After looking at all my projects I have decided to let a few go. I bought these castings new last year I believe. I never did anything with them but take them out of the box. Cast iron drivers and bronze cylinders. Email me for pics. Asking $215 OBO shipped. These are the castings from...

I have been looking around for a nice micro lathe to aid in building my 1/4" scale steam locomotives. One that caught my eye was a 7" grizzly, has anyone ever had one and how do you like it? I dont want to drop alot of cash but I dont want to cheap out. I would like to know what anyone has and...

Its not exactly "modeling" but it does involve machining and you guys are some of the smartest I could think of so here goes; December 27th I purchased a 1980 john deere 440 trailfire snowmobile, rough shape but nothing I couldnt fix. The last time it ran it burned both pistons and scored the...

Is anybody on this forum planning to attend the midwest old threshers show aug 30- sept 3? we will be there with our half and quarter scale case traction engines and may also be running the big sawmill. more info at http://www.oldthreshers.org/ Ryker Carruthers

Since we got our lathe into the new machine shop I have been playing with feed rates and spindle speeds in our 12" atlas lathe, what spindle speeds do some of you use for different materials? like stressproof steel, brass and bronze and cast iron? the lathe should be running slower when parting...

I am in need of a pattern to be made for a 1 1/2'' scale locomotive, I would rather not do this my self. It will be going onto an allen models mogul. The finished casting will need to be 8'' in diameter not counting the flange. here is a link to the prototype picture...

Hellow all, I am new to this site but have looked around and like to see all the projects going on and completed. My name is Ryker Carruthers, I'm from a small town in south west iowa. I'm a freshman in high school and I have a love for machining, we have a 12" craftsman atlas lathe, a 16" south...

these are a little bigger than the model I see on here but are model engines, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=au9VkvsWj3A&list=UUzBk7AQ1rV4LvlRu8UtYM-A&index=10&feature=plcp http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoEt3EPV5Xk&list=UUzBk7AQ1rV4LvlRu8UtYM-A&index=3&feature=plcp...