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So I discovered this book written in the 1960s called "Gears for Small Mechanisms." It is out of print, but you can find new and used copies on Amazon, albeit for a price. Anyhow, I thought I would mention it as it is a very technical book, really an engineering book I suppose, on designing and...

So I've noticed that one can purchase small gasoline-powered engines for home and garden use. Since these engines aren't much larger than larger-scale model engines, has anyone ever just for the sake of it, built your own multi-purpose engine?

So right now I live in an apartment, but I am really eager to start doing some machining work. My question is, is this doable with small hobby machine tools? I noticed that Sherline has a page on their website called "Compact Sherline Workshops:" http://www.sherline.com/shops.htm On it they...

I don't know if any of you are aware, but Google has put a crap ton of old 19th century and early 20th century books on subjects such as steam engines, steam engineering, mechanical engineering, foundry work, machining, mechanical drawing, patternmaking, etc...onto their Google Books feature...

Hello all, new here. So I was wondering, but if one was say engaging in scratch-built RC, would it be possible to power such an RC vehicle with a model engine? Say as an example, you build a model Chevrolet small block V8. So if you then built appropriately to scale an RC Chevrolet Corvette...