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Hi Everyone, I've been AWOL for some time now, mainly due to the fact I've picked myself up a couple of BSA motorcycles I've been restoring that have overtaken my workshop and left me no bench space for model building. A few months ago I gave my dad my spare lathe, an old Sherline that was a...

This is all the drawings to build the stationary engine from Step by Step Metalwork book 3 by Kenneth Wells. SBN 237 281295 To comply with the copyright of this publication it is only the drawings. None of the photos nor text telling you how to build it are included, but I'm sure for most people...

This is all the drawings to build the stationary engine from Step by Step Metalwork book 3 by Kenneth Wells. SBN 237 281295 To comply with the copyright of this publication it is only the drawings. None of the photos nor text telling you how to build it are included, but I'm sure for most people...

Plans to make patterns to cast the wheels and smokebox for the toy traction engine designed by Kenneth Wells for high school students to make in metalwork classes.

Plans to make patterns to cast the wheels and smokebox for the toy traction engine designed by Kenneth Wells for high school students to make in metalwork classes.

This is all the drawings required to build the Kenneth Wells traction engine. The author gives permission for the drawings to be copied but not?the photos or text on how to build it (Which is fair enough). You will notice on some pages it is half blank, that is where I've had to blank out photos...

This is all the drawings required to build the Kenneth Wells traction engine. The author gives permission for the drawings to be copied but not?the photos or text on how to build it (Which is fair enough). You will notice on some pages it is half blank, that is where I've had to blank out photos...

The Australian dollar has just bcome worth more than the US dollar. This is a massive improvement from a year or two ago when the OZ dollar only got $0.65 US. Look out ebay US and US tool shops as I know where a lot of my Christmas presents will be coming from this year. :big:

Hi all, I haven't fallen off the face of the earth, I've just been busy with a number of other things, including a case flue (Don't know if it was bird flue) that kept me in bed for a week. But I was recently asked if I could upload the drawings of Kenneth Wells Stationary Engine, which I just...

I was just saying the other day I never find anything interesting at car boot sales and today stumbled across these two items. I've tested them both and they work fine. Now I just need the kiln, vacuum equipment for the plaster and a centrifugal caster and I'm set. :big: It will probably be...

I went to a swap meet today to try and find some old cheap pewter mugs to melt down into toy soldiers for my son. I didn't get a single one, but I did find this for $200. I've given them both a quick test and they seem to work. Looks like at some point in the future I will be doing some lost...

Can anyone tell me if there is a benefit or disadvantage of using PTFE packing over graphite yarn. The reason I'm asking is I just received my gradfathers Stuart 10V he build in the 1980s but it is in need of an overhaul and I'm making a list of what I need to order at the moment. Besides it...

I was up in my loft today and found something I had forgot about. I have a new still bagged up cylinder and piston assembly for an OS 10FSR IC model plane engine. If anyone wants to buy or trade it for something give me a PM as I no longer own an engine it will fit. I can't take a photo until...

Turned on my PC this morning and 2 seconds later it went off as did the Tv and all the other power sockets as the cct breaker had tripped. I put it down to my old UPS giving up. Removed the UPS turned my PC back on, got a loud snapping sound followed by sparks coming out the PSU on my PC and...

This was posted on another forum I'm a member of but I think enough people here will appreciate it too. Just when you think you have seen everything............. <object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie"...

On sunday I go away for another 1 1/2 weeks for work. That will make about 28 nights away from home this year already. Work is really putting a dent in my shop time this year. :'(

I can't buy it as it would cost too much to post back to Australia, but if someone here does buy it I would be interested in buying some of the guage plate off you. You just don't see stuff like this come up for sale in Australia...

I was planning on making the mandrel I need to turn up a few brass parts for my clock. Decided to thread it 1/4 BSW. Checked my list of taps and dies to make sure I had a 1/4 BSW die, saw it on my list so turned everything up for it only to realise I read my sheet wrong. I have a 1/4 BSW tap but...

Went to the doctors and had my Tetanus injection as I'm about 20 years overdue one. I hate needles but atleast its over with now.

Last June I purchased this book off ebay. Since last July I have been making the tools I need to make this clock and purchasing material. I still have more material to get and more tools to make, but I've finally reached a point where I can start. Here are some of the tools I've made so far...