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I don't contribute much to this site and I've been a regular daily viewer for over 7 years now but when a friend of mine in oz sent me this link concerning the posting of pictures from smart phones and the like I immediately thought of you guy's, I have no way of knowing whether this is true or...

An X1 mill mod I don’t know if any body’s interested but I’ve been trying to make my X1 mill a little bit more user friendly, I got so tired winding the Z drive up and down. In fact I spent more time winding up & down than actually doing the jobs on the steam engine, and my shoulder at my age...

Bore gauge I’m building a PMR #5 bottle engine at present & while turning the brass piston noticed it was 5 thou bigger one end than the other, this prompted me to check the cylinder bore and behold that to was cone shaped, so, pulled lathe apart, bashed it with a hammer a few times, centred...

First post this so not sure what I’m doing here but……. I’m building the PM #5 bottle engine at the moment Igot from santa and reached the stage where I needed to drill crank journals to5/16 or 0.312 thou, so I worked up to19/64 and ordered a reamer from Arc euro to finish it to size, when it...