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Many thanks to Dave for emailing me the 1949 ME article on the Trojan engine. However, the search is still on: Dave’s eagle eye spotted that the article included an engine called ‘Warrior’ which has much in common with my ‘mystery’ drawing, but it is not the one. The castings follow the...

Hello everyone, Yes, the resemblance to the Stuart V10 is clear. Here is a standard and cylinder from the ‘mystery’ set beside the equivalents from a V10. The engine from Downunder is very close but to a much higher standard of finish. Doubletop: chicken, I think Dave: I had looked at the...

Hello, I hope someone can recognise this plan and tell me the source. It came with a set of part-machined brass castings that I recently got, and I assume that it came from an old ME or similar publication. No real clues as to the date, but I am pretty sure it wasn’t recent. The castings...

Hello Bob and Rick, thanks for the comments. I suppose it is no surprise that I have received differing advice: off-board I received advice to NEVER use any lubrication at all on chucks, as well as recommendations to use specialist products like Fuchs Chuck Paste. The Permatex product mentioned...

Can anybody advise please what oil or grease to use in a chuck? I have disassembled two small (76mm) three jaw chucks, cleaned them with degreaser and was about to reassemble them when it dawned on me that there may be a 'do & don’t' rule concerning lubrication. Plan A was to use a dab of Comma...

I have just finished reading 'MAKING SIMPLE MODEL STEAM ENGINES' by Stan Bray (ISBN 1 86126 773 8) and it contains several boiler designs with drawings and plenty of explanations. To a newbie like me, it seems great. Hope this helps, Bruce