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An old mate of mine built this in 1999 - he was a very capable modeller in his day but he struggles now and can't remember anything about this engine, or where he put the info about it. He's asked me to get it running for him. I need to ID it so I can research a bit about what fuel and oil is...

Was at a neighbour's today and spotted this in his garden. After seeing me drool over it, he gave it to me. Appears to be flywheel and beam of an old engine. Flywheel is about 210mm across (8 inches). Needless to say, there are no casting marks anywhere. Any ideas? EDIT - two photos added...

About fifteen years ago I took a night course at a local high school on building a small live steam Traction Engine. We finished the term but not the engine. I've gotten it out to try to finish it off, but the drawings I have aren't complete (for example, the ports on the pivot plate aren't...

Tearing apart some equipment at work and have pulled out ten 1 metre sections of 1/8 copper line. I'd like to scavenge this for future steam use but it's been used as indicator line in a hydraulic power pack (to the pressure gauge) and consequently has hydraulic oil in it. What are the...

Problem : Old Emco Compact 8 three jaw chuck, jaws bellmouthed, finances don't allow for replacement. Proposed solution: 1: Remove jaws and clean all oil from jaws and scroll (may require full disassembly of chuck). 2: Coat scroll and jaw teeth with slow cyano or possibly even PVA glue. 3...

Is it possible to use an air gauge to measure steam as long as a siphon tube is used? If not, where do folks get their steam gauges?

has anyone seen this video or heard of this device before? I want one! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYsOi6L_Pw4&feature=player_embedded Very cool mechanical adding machine the size of a pepper grinder.

Great to see other people's shops - and shared interests. Here's my Emco Compact 8 on its bench. And an image gallery of my shop and stuff I've done in it: http://enginemusic.jalbum.net/workshop/ My shop is set up in the 10x10 foot space at the end of the steel garage we built two years...

We had an accident the other day at work, and even though most of you won't be exposed to the magnitude of danger that was here, it does have a valuable lesson in it for us. George has been turning since before I was born, and I have gray hairs. He was on his usual machine, a 31"x120" Dainichi...

The builders left several pieces of concrete rebar when they finished with our extension. Any ideas for handy uses for this stuff? It's high tensile, innit? Several years ago when I was repairing guitars we hung an 8 foot piece from the rafters by guitar string, attached an old contact pickup...

Sorry if this is flamingly obvious to most of you, but I read somewhere, and must concur, that the best way to clean files is to use a rifle shell casing. NOTE: Remove bullet using customary method first. I got a .300 Winchester shell from a coworker, and pressed the noisy end flat in vise...

Yesterday I needed 8 M10x16 socket head cap screws toot-sweet and all I had to hand were some 20mm long ones. While I was shoving the first one thread-first into the grinding wheel, one of the other guys asked me if I wanted to see a better way of doing it. Would I? He chucked an angle grinder...

Gidday, Been lurking a couple of weeks, thought since I've gained a bit from this forum that I'd find a stool to call my own and introduce myself. I'm a 4th year adult (39) apprentice at a large general engineering shop here. We do primarily large scale one offs, construction and maintenance of...