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Morning all, I've not had much of a chance to get into the shop lately and start building engines, mainly down to taking over the business I used to work for. I've got a free weekend coming up that I'm devoting solely to shop time, so I want to get everything tweaked and tuned ready to start...

One more thing to note about your marking knife, The knife is for cutting across the grain, the other end (awl) is used for marking with the grain

I was going to post a thread with exactly the same content! Over here in the UK Axminster sell them for £13 or so, I've bought a pair and they are great value for money

It might be a while before anything fantastic comes out of my workshop ;D Lots of swarf will not be a problem though.

Afternoon all, Being as I've just collected my new lathe and milling machine, the only thing I need to purchase is cutting tools and material ;D I'll start with the lathe, I want to use indexable tooling to start with, until I've found my feet and I know what I need to achieve when grinding HSS...

I just thought I should post a message on this thread . . the big holes created my the missing machinery were caused by me ;D ;D It's all waiting in the garage until I can get the workshop ready for them within a week or so. It took 2 tries to come and collect the machinery, the first attempt...

Hi all, In a week or so I will be collecting a metalworking powered hacksaw. It's going in the shed, but to get it there it needs to go down 12 steps, through the house, and down another 12 steps. Is there any methods that I can use to negotiate the steps? I don't have an exact weight, but 2...

I spy a festool multi function table and circular saw? I take it your in the woodworking trade?

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Hi John, I've already had a good read of that site about the lathe. I'll keep searching though ;D Gerrit, thanks for the link, sadly my german isn't upto much, but I will have a good nose round that site later. A manual would be a great help

I don't have any specific jobs that I need to do that will require a big capacity. Its a 7" by 17", so is longer than the chinese lathes I was looking to purchase. Are the accessories still easy to get hold of?

Evening all, I've got the chance to purchase an Emco Emcomat 7 screw cutting lathe. Originally in my master plan I was going to purchase a Chinese lathe, but i've always been a bit dubious about this. I've done a bit of research on the lathes and they seem to be well regarded, but being a newbie...

Thanks for all the input, I was expecting it to open a small can of worms, but not one this big ;D As of yet I don't own any machinery or tools. I'm starting from a blank page. I have a few tools that could be carried over from my day job. But I would just prefer to have new everything. No...

Thanks for the replies so far, I am based in the UK (i've updated my profile now) It's only from my reading material that I have assumed the majority of things to be done in imperial, But I think thats mainly down to alot of the writer being trained before decimalization. I'm going to be...

Hi all, I'm in the process of setting up a workshop at home for engineering. These engines I keep seeing posted are really getting me excited about working metal. I'm a joiner by trade and work in metric, albeit to 0.5mm tolerances most of the time, Not quite engineering standards. Although my...

Hi everyone, I was forwarded to this site from another forum, Ukworkshop, its a wood working forum, but one of the members just picked up a lathe and mill. I asked about forums, and a member linked to this site. I've spent a few days looking about and its a fantastic place here, lots of...