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Heres a link to an online lecture from a science history museum in Oxford: http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/the-eccentric-turner/ About early lathe use. Its a recorded lecture which refers to slides, but some interesting history all the same. Mike

Kelly, Just read this.Congratulations and best wishes in the new role. Mike

Pascal, Sorry to hear about your loss. Bad any time of year. Hope they get caught. Mike

Great news Kel - congratulations!! Very best of wishes in your new job. Mike

Alexandre thanks for sharing those. Next week I start a 10 week night-school course in solidworks 2010. I don't know yet if I get a choice what to design as part of the learning bur engine related would be good because of the animation. Are you self taught? Mike

Stan, Congratulations, a super runner done with your mill. Mike

Could turn out an advantage if you ever want to build a teleportation machine! I have a friend had his basement done out for a design space, dunno if that's a possibility for your setup? Mike

Just want to say thanks to you all for your replies. Thanks in advance for any additional info. Hmem is a great place to hang out. And so to bed... Mike

Just back from holiday where I read 'The engines of our ingenuity' by John Lienhard and 'Victorian engineering' by L T C Rolt in the 1st book: 'the modern propeller bladed windmill is 3 or 4 times more efficient than the advanced 18th century mills and 40 times more powerful' I'm thinking...

Dave, Firstly, great credit to your nephew for his attitude. How about little things you might find around the house , belt buckles, buttons, light cord pulls, paperweights, coasters, cutlery , nail files, clasps maybe doorstops. Maybe mobile phone stands. Then think how to make them a bit...

Hello Gerlof, Nice looking lathe you made yourself, well done! Mike

Kel, Just to add mine to the chorus: congratulations - fine craftmanship well done. Mike

If you have (or can get) an mp3 player and are ok downloading (or can get someone to do it for you) audio files/podcasts theres plenty of audio stuff on the web. Librivox.org is good to start with a load of free out of copyright audio books. As Jim said walking is good, you can also take your...

Yes a tidy looking set-up. Maybe just the photography but it looks well lit too. Good to see anothe Taig in situ. Mike

Under $6 difference & 2.5c an o ring?...not a blip on the radar! Moving OT for a moment: I've recently been listening to an audio book on the life of Edison. IIRC at one time he's out west hunting with some friends. Near a rail station he sees a jack rabbit, shoots & misses but the rabbit...

Guys, thanks for all your views. Where I'm coming from is I have limited shop time , along with limited experience/relatively limited equipment. So if I found say, ten hours a week, what sort of project might be do-able over a couple of months, maybe 80-ish hours. Cocomo had proved useful to me...

I should start by saying this isn't meant to be about setting a stopwatch against model engineering. We can (hopefully usually) take pleasure in working at a pace where we enjoy model making. A little story: years back I taught myself computer programming. Wrote many thousands of lines of code...

Hi there Chitownmachine, Looks like you've got a stride on with this build. As a fellow Taig owner I'm enjoying looking at the pics. Thanks for sharing. Whats the 'jiffy DIRO' ? Mike

Larry, Here's a link to where the paddleducks plans by Bogstandard can be got: http://www.machinistblog.com/bogstandards-paddleduck-engine-plans/ Mike

I enjoyed it. I'm also with Rob on the duration (beeb are you listening?) more time allows more depth. Maybe someone at the beeb sees it as a makeover show! ? Looking forward to the one next week. Mike