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Ok lets say your tail stock does pass as pointing in the correct direction and within the allowable limits, or at worst, even straight in both axii during those initial rough checks. With any lathe that has an adjustable tail stock and for my usual order of operations, I'd now center the tail...

Ok Krypto asked me to start a new thread about this since a bit more detail was wanted and I was in reality starting to throw his own thread OT. And since I can't know just how much anyone here already does or doesn't know, this is going to get a bit detailed and long. As a reference and to...

I thought I'd post this for those that are interested. It's a German language forum at http://dampfforum.info/ Take note, "THE FORUM OWNER DOES NOT WANT ANY POSTS IN ENGLISH" I can agree, understand, and sympathise with that point. However it's still a really awesome forum even with the...

OK it's a link to a Ken Harris book about model steam engines written quite awhile ago. If? this link works. Link removed by admin Hopefully this hasn't been posted before. There should be more than enough people here that can use the information in the book. There's some drawings and design...

A good friend of mine and I were talking a few days ago. Both his and my interests are in fairly complicated Stationary steam engines. While I have nothing against the Internal Combustion types, And I've learned a huge ammout reading about how the average HSM type builds and overcomes all the...

Ok, Andrews thread about "Lathe recommendations in Canada" started to go a bit off track and we were approching a hijack. Please see the last few posts about lathe alignment on page 3. Does anybody here have anything to add. Whats your approach to aligning a lathe to turn parallel? Methods? Even...

Since I'm about to leave for work and won't be viewing this for a couple of weeks, I'll post and run. I thought since were about to go into a brand new year and this site has very well picked project of the month winners why all these monthly winners aren't posted for the membership to vote for...

I just got a subscription to the Australian Model Engineering magazine and checked out a few of the advertisers web sites out of curiosity. Australias prices seem very high. One example would be for Sherline equipment and accesories $$$$. A comparison of what an Australian dollar is worth...

I really couldn't decide what part of this forum to ask this on so please be understanding. Anybody know where Ed, user name Big Bore is or how he's doing? He and I have been back and forth for quite awhile with personal emails, Have sent some emails as usual directly to his home and no answer...

Shred, I've thought of buying one of those but figured it might chatter too much, Thanks for posting that. I don't have any excuses now. Pete

In an earlier post I mentioned that I had a full set of unmachined castings and drawings for a Sanderson Beam Engine in 1/12th scale obtained from Great Britten 10-12 yrs. ago, One of my relatives and I want to build two of these engines but blown up by 50% to 1/8th scale, ( He's pretty good...

Title basicly says it all, I'm going to start very soon on a Sanderson beam engine machined from cast iron plate and bar stock ( No castings are available in the size I'm building 1/8 scale). Anyway to duplicate the look of castings I need to have at least a 3 degree draft angle with a radius at...

Hi new here but have been lurking for months, Must say I enjoy the site, And am very impressed with the overall skill shown by everyone here. I happen to own a set of unmachined castings and drawings I bought from england 10-12 yrs. ago, For the Sanderson beam engine. My nephew and I would like...