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Over at the Mamod Forum (www.mamodforums.co.uk) I've been involved in a group build loco project, at present the project is in the design phase, prototyping some components and testing stages. The loco is 16mm scale and will require a custom smokebox casting and a small number of lost wax...

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this but here goes! I've got a few ideas about developing a small 16mm Garden Railway Loco, in between myself and a model engineering laser company, and buying off the shelf parts, I'll need some parts turned on a lathe. It would be very small...

A picture paints 1000 words: I'm turning some ball ended handrail brackets and need to work out the value of "z" where "x" and "y" are known dimensions! What would be the formula for working it out? :-\

I've got some model railway parts that I need to get some castings made of. I need lots of them, I don't mind making 4 or so but axle boxes and brake blocks I need dozens of! These are all 16mm:ft stuff so thumbnail sized bits! Can anyone recommend a shop (in the UK) who will make the moulds...

I've got a number of small Brass Parts for my loco build that need a black finish. I didn't want to paint as I'll lose detail, is there any chemical I can use that'll patinate the brass?

Pictures say 1000 words so here goes! This is what I want to make: It's a Brake Block for a model Railway Wagon...It's quite small -11mm tall and will be cut from a piece of 1/8" brass which will be screwed down to the machine table. I'm using a cnc milling machine / engraver. I thought I'd...

I bought a new 0-10mm Jacobs Keyless Chuck retails at about £40 but seller was selling off his new old stock, got it for £9.99 and was suprised to see it's made in Italy, Jacobs always used to be synonymous with quality and thought they were either made in the US or England?

I purhased a cheap Wickes Grinder for about 25 quid a few years back, used it for grinding up old brick bolsters and cold chisels for cutting up paving slabs and chanelling out brickwork etc. It was obviously rubbish but was good enough for the work I wanted. I put a couple of buffing mops on...

Since I'm a Taig Lathe owner, I just wondered how many other fellow Taig owners are on here and what kinds of work they've made with them? I've seen a few pictures with a glimpse of that familiar black anodised extruded headstock! Also if you have a Taig Mill is it a manual or a cnc conversion...

Has anyone here purchased or used one of those Shumatech Digital Readouts? I purchased a Digital Vernier from the model engineering exhibition and noticed it has a little 4 pin socket for plugging it into a readout. I thought it might be nice to fit the linear scales to my Taig Mill to aid...

Hi! Hello from an Essex Lad here! Found out about the forums via John (aka Bogstandard) at the scale-models.co.uk forum. I'm new to the wonderful world of model engineering, have just purchased a Taig Mill to go with my Taig Lathe (both Ebay finds, both as new and just a faint aroma of pipe...