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This has been a most interesting series of posts, to say the least. I haven’t had any explosions but have been using various insect and ‘smell nice’ sprays for years to start reluctant engines, particularly the now ten year old lawn mower, it’s been a reluctant starter for all of its life but a...

Thank you, Norman, nice to hear from an old bloke! I intend to equip the Barnes with treadle gear, just to see how it was done. There have been a few come up that have all the original gear but they were out of the curiosity price range.

I recently bought a 4 1/2 Barnes lathe, originally treadle powered it has been converted to electric drive, fortunately without any alterations to the original machine. (for $200 Aust). What intrigued me is that it has a 4 jaw self entering chuck, which appears original (that is, old and well...

Accidents can happen in the most unexpected places. I once worked with a chap who only had three fingers on his left hand, the hand appeared quite normal and there were no obvious injuries, it was just a three-fingered hand, However, one day at 'smoko' he told me what had happened. He was a...

This thread has been an interesting read and reminded me of a similar incident with a new Lightburn production lathe back in the 1970s. I was the Machine Shop Foreman (civilian) in an Australian Army workshop when the new lathe was installed and became the "personal" lathe of our top...

I've followed this thread with much interest and, may I add, great work. Eoin.

Congratulations on a great job. The sound was great and took me back many years to when I heard full size engines working.

Hello all, I've made a few stationary steam models in the distant past, but have always maintained an interest in models but have been more involved with full size engines. My background is engineering and I started out as an Armourer, then went into General Engineering and finished up real work...