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hi folks: as a veterinarian who has worked with birds for 40 odd years, we frequently see dead/dying small birds like budgies and cockatiels with severe respiratory distress after someone has burned a teflon frying pan, which releases PTFE fumes which are toxic to respiratory epithelium, so my...

Todays crie de coeur on the learned helplessness we suffer in shop chaos landed on me like a ton of bricks. I thought I was alone in the world. Hello.My name is Somniosus and I am no longer alone. Thank you steamchick, moxis and others for letting me share my program. Namaste to you all fellow...

hi all: I have been using microcrystalline wax from Lee Valley tools, called Renascence wax as well under another brand. It is an inexpensive white coloured paste consistency museum grade product and a thin coat rubbed on will keep oxides from forming. I also use it to finish metal projects...

hi modellers: Some of the most beautiful engineering is curved and assymetric in some parts while linear with undercuts and thousands of an inch in other dimensions, hence hard to polish other than paper and elbow grease. Attached are some images of a built up soldered "shovel'. This was the...

Hi all: having a second career as an underwater photographer and documentary film producer for the last 30 years , with 2 illustrated guide books to my credit, I have been behind the lens since Bd (before digital). I have looked through the many useful comments and condensed below my own...

thanks BronxFigs, what a great community we have in HMEM , and the positive feedback is humbling to a relative hacker like me. cheers Chris

hi Ajoieam There are plenty of available small brass and bronze barrels 18th/19th c models you can finish-try Dixie Gun Works for start, they have a great 50 cal naval and field carriage barrels and carriages . Best regards Chris

Thanks Henry for the generous comment! This model has provoked a lot of interest here locally at militaria shows.

Thanks Emconut. Hundreds of hours, I gave up trying to track it but probably 4 to 500 would be about right.I believe Zane Palmer of Palmers Armory is doing a build of the similar 13 Lb QF cannon- over 1100 parts in it. He is definitely the Faberge of cannon builders imo. best regards Chris

Thanks Richard , the best reference I found was on the Vancouver Gunners page . They re refurbishing an original 18 pdr and they have a link there to an excerpted chapter, attached, I am not sure from which book, maybe Travins, that shows great line drawings of various parts of the gun drawn...

hi folks: As a frequent lurker and learning much from the HMEM community I wanted to share this project. Its not exactly a working engine but it is a working breech loading cannon and was made in the absence of any plans, pretty much by extrapolating from photos and a local cannon I could take...

This Minnie was started in the 1980s by a gent in the UK and has a boiler certificate. I bought it as a project from a steam engine new and used resale business in the UK in 2016 and spare parts from PM and Blackwells, and to date have invested 2,000 dollars in it.I have the Blackwells scale...

thanks Del, All great thoughts . There is definitely a learning curve when you hit about 8-10 years old and want to start carving wood, machining things and with that comes risk, especially now when the schools have largely eliminated what used to be called "industrial arts". I was lucky to...

hi Lyle Project: I had a lot of fun building this piece. I found the original David Lyle patent drawings online and will try to attach these. There is a great book from South Bend Replicas called David Lyle and His life saving gun that is comprehensive and well illustrated with the original...

Hi Nautilus: I have been a lurker on HMEM for years and recently got into gear cutting. I self taught and avoided a lot of the complexity, someday I hope to have a fuller understanding but was able to cut useable gears in brass and aluminum with a little prep work and without advanced math...