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As my first engine project I thought I'd give this a go. Bored and faced the cylinder this afternoon, nice job to get into it. It's done apart from drilling the port face and then lapping

Came across this Starret 18" level for £20 in an antiques shop, needless to say it's now got a new home. There was a smaller one too of another make but I only got the starret

Making some progress with my Hemingway tailstock for holder. This is the adapter piece for the 5/8" and 13/16" size dies. Going to make a 3/8" mandrel to allow me to turn the outside diameters down to final size

Thinking of getting a mini lathe to do odd jobs for the old land rover (making small bushes) and a bit of model engineering. Came across the amadeal mini lathe packages which look tempting as they have a lot of tooling with them. I dont really need a big lathe as if I need something big turning...

As above really, fancy getting a metal lathe and have done for a while for doing a bit of general work on and a bit of model engineerin so does anybody have one or know where theres one going? Preferably at a lowish price as I'm only on apprentice wages! Also I'm in North Wales in the UK...

Hi all, The chuck in our pillar drill (I think its a clarke, only a cheap thing) keeps slipping constantly and letting go of the drill bit no matter how much you tighten it. Its only started to do this over the past few months, its done good work over the previous 6 for a cheapish machine...

Hi everyone, I'm Sam. I'm 17 and I'm from Holyhead in North Wales. I do BTEC L3 mechanical engineering in coleg menai Bangor where I'm making a small Stirling engine. I did the L2 course before where we made an oscillator. I really enjoy machining but I also like making bits out of scrap in our...