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A simple hand tapping stand.? Feel free to make what works for you.

A simple hand tapping stand.? Feel free to make what works for you.

Drawings for the small boring head made for my Taig mill.? It can be adapted for other machines as you see fit.

Drawings for the small boring head made for my Taig mill.? It can be adapted for other machines as you see fit.

Part of building a Whittle Aero V8 involves re-drilling and tapping some very small nuts. I am looking for suggestions on how to hold these tiny 1/8" nuts so they can be drilled and tapped to a larger size. Would I be better off simply making nuts from 1/8" hex stock? Steve C.

This is not a big mistake, blunder or boo boo, but it is another day in the life of using a light weight CNC mill to make parts. Having a CNC mill is very empowering in that complex parts are taken from design to reality. The down side is once the "go" button is pushed, you better hope...

I needed a break from screwing up parts for the Whittle engine I'm trying to build so I decided to make a hand tapping stand to help out with the build. I didn't take any pictures while making it as it is pretty straight forward machining. It was made from materials I had on hand so it was...

Does anyone have any experience with the GROZ Angle Vise? Also does anyone know who the distributor is in the US?

I have put the proverbial cart before the horse in that my first posts were questions rather than an introduction. Just to let others know, my interests are generally all things mechanical, although as I have aged, the cleaner machines have become more of a preference. After retiring from 32...

I have been thinking about designing a V-4 engine roughly based on one I saw many years ago. Since I only saw it a couple of times and never disassembled I can only guess at the internals. Most of the crankshafts I have seen for four cylinder engines have the rod journals placed at 180 degrees...

Hello all, this is my first post and hope it is not a question discussed ad nauseum. What is the best or proper way to start a stirling engine? The one I have built seems to take an amazing amount of fiddling around to get running. All comments are welcome. Thanks, Steve