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a couple of my friends have them and there allways over at my shop using my 10 k south bend, the 9 by xx lathes arent very ridgid and do not turn very slow, so it can make treading interesting my advise, lok around and buy a used american ( south bend, or what ever) lathe

welcome to the the site and you might wanna look here http://www.instructables.com/ do a search for stream engine and its full of neat stuff

thats great jonesie, been there done that, i rember one time i was talking to the shop forman, and with out thinking i switched the mill o n while i was still holding on to the boring head, i was lucky i wasnt hurt, but the whole shop got a good laugh out of it........

i hate 316 its both hard and gooie att he same time, very difficalt to machine and very unforgiving. if i have to drill small holes in it, i use either a carbide boring drill or a a carbide D reamer, i have several shanks made up, that i can grab the d reamer with, using min tool over hang, so i...

wow, wonderfull work and great tips on how to do it, im doing the same thing in lost foam, works faily well..... once again great work.....

i feel bad for all you guys who dont work in the tool room, the blunders are offten and allways very funny, and the tool room forman and all your co workers seeit, and laugh with you 'cause they have don it them selvs take friday for, it was my day for a blunder, 200k die on the boreing mill...

nice looking work you do, i have you can well tool your shop and learn all those fun lessons that they taught us while serving an apprentiship

our foundry is very easy to use and was very cheap to build, no casting refractory martls , all we used was some junk we had laying around and practice, if any one wants pics of a differant idea for a foundry, just ask and ill post pics and descriptions of our foundry and dont be afraid to to...

thought id make my self known, and all that fun stuff aaron, 40 years old, 20 years of being a shop trained machinist, i work as a tool room machinist at a large stamping press reapir house all things mechanical are my passion i have a small shop at home, including a 10k south bend lathe, a...

well i a freind of mine and i wanted to do some thing differant, so i tore down a litle 1 cyl bar stock engine i had, and made up a set of foam investments from the basic engine. it was pored by a freind of mine and he and i will share the machining of this engine so hope u all enjoy the pics...

it's fairly simply, looks very straight forward to build http://www.mechanicallyinclined.net/page_sophmore_design.html

chain saw oil is too light, as is most auto type oils if memory serves me right, machine tool oil viscosity is wieghed at 100 deg C and auto oil is weighed at 30 C spend the money on a real way type lube

well after being on lay off from the tool room all summer i have finally produced a nice set of castings, based on a model engine some one gave me, but now that im ready to machine i have a few questions. A) what mtrls are used for base gasket? and head gasket? B) the wrist pin and the crank...

these cheap-o import mics, have some problems.....over the years i have noticed that the carbide faces offten arent square / paralllel, and have a very sharp edge on them un square / un parallel faces will not vie you an accurite reading the carbide faces can mar the work the number on the...