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A friend just showed me this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n9kFqfmwoU&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Acq7Vuy5wNc&feature=related

Hi everyone. I've started building the shay loco from Kozo's book and have run into a problem. The journals for the eccentrics (the ones on the far right in the picture) are drawn the way I have them machined, but when I compared them to the photo in the book they are reversed. Will this matter...

Hi everyone. Happy new year. I was browsing the post today and saw the one in links that talks about the old machinist's handbook. I wanted to share with you a find I came across in a used bookstore about 20 years ago. It is a 1919 machinist handbook. Second edition. fifteenth printing. Total...

Here are some pictures of my shop. It's my first time to post pictures so I hope it works.

Has anyone here built a steam locomotive? Can you recommend a good place to get accurate drawings or plans or other good resources?

Hi everyone, and merry Christmas. I've been looking over the forum and it looks like a great place. I've always wanted to build a model engine and this place has got the fever going again.