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Very Nice! Good video as well.

Ooops. I screwed up on that. I meant to say that i was looking at Class 40 (not 400). When i went to check prices to order i noticed my error. This looks like a cheap enough project for the iron. I will have to get a couple of tool bits, but one can never have enough of those cutting tools...

Thanks for the links. I think i'll have a go at it. I have a couple engines that need to be finished first, as well as other things honey-doos.

I would like it to perform better. Simpler angle adjustment and more ridged, longer travel. I also would like to have the T slot mounting for the tool post. Again though, this is a "use the machine" type project, not really intending on rebuilding the "wheel."

I've been thinking of making a new cross slide and compound for the minilathe. Modeled more or less after a southbend. The question i have is what material should i be using? I was thinking for ease i would use a chunk of cast400 from speedy. Then i thought it might be to soft, but i have a...

I've always wanted one of those lights! :'(

I've been meaning to snap a picture of my "neatest" treasure and here it is. It was my Uncles, a wooden bit index made by Morse Drill & Machine Company. The bits my Uncle (a tool and die maker of yesteryear) are still sharp and cut fine!

Very Cool! Would make a "nifty" nut cracker for those hard nuts the parrots like.

Great Thread. Thanks for taking the time to do it!

Is the rotation direction reversed in your modeled cam?

Well Chuck, let me add my little foolishness. Last night, while turning a new cylinder for an air motor, I cut a bar of aluminum with a short taper on one end. I could have cut it off in the band saw, as i just cut it. Or i could have faced the other now FLAT end as the other end didn't matter...

Good Job Chuck. That's a nice runner. Sounds good to, and i really like the base! :bow:

Great engine!

Thanks!

Nice Job! I'll be copying that, with one question...The hole in the middle of the RT, it that there or did you put that there?

One burn mark is nothing.... :) Great motor, runs smooth.

Ken's right. Metric screws with "close" imperial markings. Not paying enough attention to this has scrapped more parts than i want to admit to. :o

Hard working men for sure! Anyone make out the date that appears while the man is testing the ceiling rock before blasting? It's at 3.27 and i think it says 6-2-29?

Very Nice! The details like the conrod and exhaust stack are sweet! I really like the guard rail to. Nicely done! :bow:

I'm thinking doorway to an adjacent room... Great light to!