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That's a project to be proud of! I hope you keep us posted through June peter

Araldite , screw or pin and loctite a couple of strips of 6mm gauge plate (or even some 8mm key steel, given the price of gauge plate) to the base . set clamp as in first photo and bring it down on to a piece of accurately measured scrap plate carefully note reading on vernier subtract this...

I sympathize with your boring problem. It's the same with me. I sometimes wonder if the damn thing will ever stop cutting , because no matter how many times I feed it in and out , it always seems to want to cut just a little bit more! I too have one of the taig milling slides, although you seem...

I buy my plastics from here http://www.directplasticsonline.co.uk/machining_guidelines.html gives some guide lines on machining yours peter

Tel, if I ever tell my better half to take the washing down to the creek, she'd take ME down there and bash ME against a rock!

For those who want a fixture that will quickly offset larger diameters , then what about this from the archives? used it as the inspiration to build something similar for my tiag. http://www.homemodelenginemachinist.com/index.php?topic=1199.0

Know the feeling. Once spent the best part of a shed session looking for my glasses...... you can guess exactly where they were...... yours peter

I have a peatol (tiag) lathe and this is how I would do it. I have a V block that I made by using a countersink held in the chuck to machine a vee in a block bolted to the cross slide. (clocked in square to the lathe axis) this means that round bar clamped in it can be cross drilled reasonably...

:big: Definitely not showing the wife this! the rule about colours reminds me of my courting days when I first met my future wife. Out shopping for a new dress I asked what she was looking for - something cerise was the reply - after a few minutes i told her I'd checked all the labels and...

A very nice looking model , Curly. I especialy like the flywheel , sharp corners and a good finish on the inside. what type of tool did you use to turn the recess ? O, and welcome to the forum, hopefully I only have about 5 years before I'm 'Redirected' myself and can spend more time in the...

There is one other reason why carbon maybe more preferable to HSS, and not unrelated to another topic on this forum, and that's when (not if!) you break a tap in mild steel -oh! and of all the metal working arts, the breaking of the tap is the one I seem to have mastered the quickest - you at...

Quick yes, but nasty , no! another idea to file away. thanks for posting it yours peter

Generaly speaking, and from my own experiance, cold rolled mild steel whether flat, square, round, or hex is usually about 0.001" - 0.003" down on it's stated size. IIRC there are industry tolerances for producing CRMS and they are unilateral . i.e. to size or minus not plus or minus a couple of...

Bob, I really like the look of that block is it shop made? what are the dimensions? it looks extremely versatile yours peter

Thanks for the vote of confidence , Ramon. I guess when machinists like yourself, steamer, deanofid et al make such positive comments, then I must be doing something right! I've been trying to refine the way I make the thread follower, and came up with this method I rolled (well, bashed...

well, with so many 'irons in the fire' and not much shed time , it took me longer to cobble together than expected. the head lamp was 2.99 from TKMAXX , the lock line was scrounged and the magnet ( I think from a gear box) came from a salvage yard. The magnets a bit weak and won't hold it...

When I came to make the valves , I realised i couldn't use the drawings , as i had had to make the port face block slightly narrower. on the plans the valve is moved by a valve buckle as in full size practice rather than a square nut set into the valve as in most models. I liked the idea of the...

Slow progress, but I'm then I dont want to start getting things badly wrong at this stage. I didn't have any material thick enough to make the cylinder bases including the piston rod gland, but I did have some 1/4 brass plate so decided to use this for the bases and solder the gland bosses in...

you need to rub chalk into the teeth, helps stop it gumming up. I also use a brass bristle brush to clean the teeth as well. I never seem to have enough files. very useful tools. with buying files, the one thing i've noticed is that the plastic handled multi packs never seem to be of a decent...

Having just spent a friutless hour pleading with the fourth dimension to return my valve bobbins , this brought a much needed smile to my face :big: