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Hey everyone, I'm looking for a set of plans that was in the live steam magazine about 6 months ago, and it should be marked as volume 50 number 4 and it had a picture of a toy boat on the cover. it was for I think Victoria rc steam boat. I have miss placed my copy or it was never set to me as...

Hey guys, So I made a gear hob last night, as you can see in the picture it's on the right. And yes it only has three cutting teeth as to the usual 5. So I know my gears will not be perfect. My question is would you harden it or would you just try it as is? It's only cutting a brass and an...

Hey everyone, I am trying to make a 14.5 degree gear hob cutter out of W1 steel and was trying to turn it with a HSS cutter. But it only cut one of the five sections of the W1 before it just rounded over the point, and even after grinding the HSS again it round it for a second time. Did I...

I was looking at the plans for "new Tom Thumb" in the live steam mag. And it got me thinking what is the difference between the old one and the new one? Sent from my iPhone using Model Engines

I was just wondering what percentage of silver solder does everyone use when making a boiler. Hydro tested to 80 and running under 40 psi steam pressure.

Hello everyone, I have been looking around the community for a little while now and just bought a used 10 x 18 metal lathe about a month ago. and have only made a little tiny steam boiler so far. A little about my background I'm currently a Power engineering student, or as you guys across...