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The start can be found here:- https://www.homemodelenginemachinist.com/threads/stuart-s50-my-first-engine-build.36094/ I thought that that place was where it was best but it has been kindly pointed out to me that comments etc can't be posted so I'll never know how much of a mess I'm making of...

After a lot of prevaricating I bit the bullet and bought a set of castings. Obviously the cheapest, simplest one I could find and its been on my dining table for a while now. I've looked over the bits and the drawing and pondered which bit to start with, if I should do the easy looking bits...

Since it became rather obvious that I'll need some kind of angle plate fixture to make the Stuart engine that I've decided to build I got my son to weld up a thing that might be something close. The flycutting of a reasonable surface went well, leaving a finished surface that may need truing up...

I've been looking at the drawings for a Stuart engine that I'm about to attempt and realised that I'm probably going to have to calculate the hole positions relative to a fixed datum zero point so that the DRO can do all the heavy lifting. Just wondering what the concensus is on posting a chart...

I was watching a documentary about the Ariel Square Four the other day, and it occurred to me that it should be possible to build a two cylinder four stroke engine, using two crankshafts where the pistons rise and fall together but are not firing together. This could use a single cam lobe for...

I got a 100mm diameter diamond wheel a while ago as it looked like it might fit an angle grinder, but it didn't. The bore is 20mm so I needed an arbour to suit it. All the ones that I could find weren't available in 20mm size either so I had a think about making one. Using a 16mm nut and bolt as...

I got the shaper free when I bought my Colchester Chipmaster lathe oven 25 years ago and have had issues almost since then. The first thing wrong was that there was no motor fitted so I fitted one. Rather too small as it turned out, but it did the job. So we had a working shaper, which was a...

At the price, around $50, it's a steal, except it has some, let's say quirks that need ironing out. Paul at Haxby Shed has a review on the larger version here Well the main issue with the smaller one is that the worm drive is too tall and the top bit rocks on it unless the two locking nuts are...

I noticed that the sanding machine that I bought to assist a lady friend with a project could be repurposed to get various angles roughed out on a HSS tool bit. It actually works a bit better than it ought to, getting the angles to where they need to be. Of course the angle scales on the machine...

I've bought some reamers in a job lot from the ubiquitous online auction site and some of them have strange (to me at least) writing on them. I assume that its a size thing but this is not something I've heard of before. Examples are:- One marked IRS3/114, another IRS2/256 and a third marked...

I bought myself an ER40 to backplate adapter last year and have been slowly working round to getting it fitted. I'd guessed from the Ebay photos that it was a Myford fit, or something similar, and so would need some playing about with to get it fitted to my D1-3 spindle nose. I machined a lump...

After I made myself a lathe nose taper adapter to Morse 3, I was surprised how much runout I was getting when using an ER32 collet adapter. Well I got to the bottom of that after finding that the finishing staff in the Chinese collet factory clearly don't exist. Here's a photo of some of the...

My slip gauge or gauge block set, depending on your local accent, has let me down. I bought this super accurate height gauge from a well known online auction site and it proves my theories about it being the equipment, rather than the operator that makes things the wrong size. Can these things...

Has anybody had luck with these? Mine is this one Model Engineering and engineering tools online from RDG Tools Ltd Home Page (Engineering Tools) Tel 01422 885069 /884605 If the link works, it should show the arrangement of the thing. My issue is that the cam bit doesn't turn enough to lock...

I've hit a problem where I was going to machine a pin to fit in my rotary table to locate a hole at the centre of the table to rotate round and form a nice radiused end to a flat bar component. The hole, that I'd not looked at before, turns out to be a Morse taper, specifically a MT2. So it...

I decided over Christmas that I would make a replacement clip for my coffee machine and found a piece of 316L sheet that would do. The clip is like a washer but has three tabs on the inside and it slips on, sort of bayonet fashion, to secure the filter in the handle of the espresso machine. Back...

I've been pondering for a long time, since I bought a low differential Stirling Engine from the ubiquitous online fleamarket, how big one of these could get. Something that could be placed in the garden and take advantage of temperature cycles between day and night to do something fun or useful...

I've seen a couple of YouTube videos (Haxby Shed is one that I can remember) where an angle grinder is stuck to the clapper box of a shaper for a quick and dirty surface grinder frankenstein thing. Before I even think about attempting to build such a monstrosity I thought I'd ask the opinions of...

New old guy here, just feeling my way round machining after a long hiatus. I was educated in the use of machine tools in the seventies so some stuff I remember, some I didn't learn.