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Treadle Finger Engine I've drawn this model up in solidworks as a CNC project for the students in our CNC course at the University of Montana Helena College of Technology. Our goal is to manually program most of the parts using G-code. I've based the design off many I found on HMEM and links...

My finished vise. The castings are by Morrison and Marvin. This is an enjoyable project and useful tool. Details of building it are in the Models from castings section.

The Morrison and Marvin vise. I am finally getting around to building the small vise from castings. The vise caught my eye immediately since I have had a small Wilton for over 35 years. I will include some of my set ups and photos as I go along. I started a few weeks ago. These images are...

Tonight was a bit different, my friend came up and asked me to put four vent holes in the barell of a competition pistol. I know nothing about guns and couldn't guarantee we were doing anything but ruining a perfectly good Lilja barell. I thought I'd share the simple set up and photos of the...

Hello from Montana! I just discovered this forum and enjoying so many of the threads that I jumped in without an introduction! I started in steam when I was a kid, running small engines then traction engines under wonderful mentors at the WMSTR steam show in Minnesota. One week after my 18th I...

I just discovered this forum and am enjoying it immensely so I thought I'd share a little tool we made and are using today. Gang tooling is common on CNC machines without a turret. I like to use the gang tools on my lathe, in the toolpost or mounted to the cross slide. Dorian has an awesome...