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Hi, its me again... :) Started to build a small two cylinder engine after a plan from a german steam book: http://www.amazon.de/dp/3788306564/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20 The plans call mainly for brass as material, but i am going for steel and cast iron, using brass and bronce only where...

Hi Folks, once again, all my current projects came to a stop, because I wanted to build a tool (to build other tools, that will build other tools, ...you know the drill :) ) This time its Jerry Howells Highspeed Spindle...

Hi folks, I was looking after a little, not so common, steam engine, I could build...then I found Brians Thread about a Hit and Miss steam engine, inclucing the great plans, I liked the overall look of it, so I decided to build it. But for fun (we will see...I hate myself right now :D), I will...

Hi, The last few days I built a coolant mister for my cnc milling machine...there were three versions: Here it is: This is the nozzle: The Air goes around the central needle, which holds the coolant fluid. The manifold: the lower connection is for the cutting fluid, the compressed air...

Hello together, In line with building my 3 cylinder rotary engine, i decided, that i need a cnc milling machine...to much similar parts to do them manualy (At least for me). First plan was to build a complete milling machine from scratch...

Hi Folks, At the moment I dont have too much time to continue working on my 3 Zylinder Radial Engine, but I had time to do a bit of development work leading to a small cnc milling machine...I dont know if it will be built some day, but who knows... It will look like the famous (at least, they...

Hi folks, as i don't have enough projects to work on, i started another one (hey, ho, lets go)... A 3 Zylinder Radial Engine built after a plan published as a book here in Germany. Here is a link to the finished engine of that guy, who designed the engine...

Hi, i hope, a Work in Progress Thread for a machine is welcome here... :) since a long time i wanted to build a swiveling tool rest for my grinder to grind and sharpen lathe tools. As soon as i started construct the tool rest, there where more and more ideas, that came to my mind..faster as...

Hello, I'm back again, building a new little steam engine :) This time it will be Elmers Single Cylinder Compound Engine: Here is a picture of the current status: The base is aluminum, the bearings are brass, the crank, crankshaft and the bearing supports are steel. The screws are made from...

I never used the powerfeed via the leedscrew on my minilathe for turning, because i couldn't find any gearcombination thats slow enough to give a nice finish. Today I decided to build a fine feed thats powered by a small geared dc motor: The motor, 3000rpm@24V with a 50:1 gear with the...

Today i begann building the "Standby" ( http://www.john-tom.com/ElmersEngines/19_standby.pdf ) It looks like a simple machine to build, but the hard part for me are the imperial measurements, because i am used to work in metrics, my trusty calculator will be my best friend during this project :)...

Hi, i want show you my small shop (and the machines there), where i spend way to much time ;D cheap chinese drill press, small grinder, storage for small components and stock materials, radio, and workbench more workbench, vise, cheap bandsaw, which i use to cut aluminium stock, under the...

Greetings, i found this board a while ago via a link in Bob Warfields blog, and i liked it spontaneously, very much information to be found here. Some information about me: My name is Stefan, 22 years old, living in germany, bavaria (also the reason for my strange english ;D ), at the moment...