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Lads In the shot below is a set up on the milling machine of me trying to Slit-saw a taper pin expansion rod i am making. The saw thickness is .007 thou x 1 1/8th od, i ran the mill at 150 rpms the part is made out of 304 stainless. In this shot you see the work in front of the slitting...

Gus what you fishing for out there? Anthony

Iron. Congratulations on a win, a very nice engine indeed which has a wonderful sound. Anthony.

Robcas631 I do have access to water or a stream, well I do but in the summer its mainly dry and empty. Neils, I am not quite sure on the concept please elaborate. Orange, This I shall do at work, that’s a great little hands on project and there is another fella who is as interested as I...

Guys This is just what I wanted. Through my research so far coming from what’s been stated wood gasification to me is a viable option and pretty simple to boot. As stated I see the main two possibilities here, taking the syngas off for fuel and installing a Stirling engine on top...

Tin As I clarified in post #3 off grid and such stuff is not my intention, making an engine is. This group designs and builds model engines, granted more often than not you want to scale down, I want to scale up from your normal size. It was hard to word my request for information in the...

Orange My intention here is not to produce energy for myself and go off grid. I have a 10 acre farm and have the capability to produce 8KW of power via a diesel engine which serves me well in power black outs. My reason for doing this is I enjoy making things that are useful, also this...

Gentlemen I want to make an engine/engines to charge a 12/24 volt electrical system that could run 8 hours a day. My fuel/energy resources are endless wood, solar and wind. I have adequate Turning, milling and shaping capabilities and a healthy knowledge on the use of them. I really...

Tin Strange you should mention this. It was only yesterday I was in my shop and I needed to drill six holes in a stub I made to accept a chuck to my RoTab. Leaving out most of the facts of the matter my dilemma was I needed three separate moves in the drilling process all involved moving the...

ModHydro. What a smashing job you have done Modding-out that Logan 200. Although blue would not have been my first choice colour for paint I must say it really is appealing. The stainless back-splash tray is a nice accessory both quite practical while being clean. I have a couple of...

Well trout i must say you have a nice little shop. :-* I just wish i had stock in Home Depot seeing all the fastener hardware you have i would have quadrupled my investment. I know how you are because i am the same i cant stand mess!!!!! Anthony.

i am 50 years old. been in this hobby 25 years. wife understands as she has a hobby that takes up as much time as i spend on mine. i have three machines broken at the moment and i need all three to repair each other so i have a dilemma, i dont care tho even fixing machines pleases me. i spend 2...

I would like to add this..... since everyone is B B Qing do not scrub the grill with a steel or stainless steel wire brush, it leaves wire bristles on the plate and you scoop them up with the meat and ind jest them and it causes an infection. That was a safety topic at one of our company...

Gentlemen This little critter is creating untold frustration for me; it is the slide ram bearing holder on my Atlas 7B shaper. This is the plate that’s bolted to the gear wheel. I had a slight knock while the machine was reciprocating so I dug this block out and found that the hardened boss had...

Noitoen I have a similar story, and when it happened to me I was down for a while but after two years now I realize it was the best thin g that ever happened to me. I was forced to get a paying job after my business started to fail 2-1/2 years ago, but I still kept some of my good customers...

Andrew. I don’t make engines but I machine a lot of odds & sods, I do all my milling on the lathe, slow and careful as it has been said, but I have made so much special tooling for it I don’t really use the horizontal mill I have. As it’s been said you will not go wrong with the slide and vice...

An apprentice makes mistakes and does not know how to fix them, a journeyman makes mistakes but knows how to fix them, a master does not make mistakes. The same rules apply to the computer machining group. Progress will march forward and will always prevail, but as Newton said “ where theirs an...

I am strictly manual in training and my machine inventory is the same, making parts from the layout bench to the machine then milling and or flipping chips takes a lot of skill and attention to details especially when you consider the volume of steps taken all of which could inject an error. I...

Mr Jones. Well. You posted as I did and I just read it. Well! I don’t think it’s a deal, I look at it this way if you were to part it out piece by piece could you get your money back or get close to within 75% and in this case it’s no. The head stock as a throw in tell me there were problems...

Mr Jones. I think the price is a little high but if on the other hand it’s an outstanding refurbishment I would not be so quick to turn my head, then it would have to have all the goodies and especially a qc BOX for me to break out the check book. I stumbled on a Logan 200 two years ago for...