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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...