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Hi Guys, It's been a while. I just picked up an old Ruberg surface grinder. Does anyone know if it has a saddle lock? I've had a look around but all I can find are the gib adjustments. Also, does anyone have a heads up on the lube for the saddle and z axis ways. Iv'e already cleaned...

Just a tip that might be helpful to some. When I first made my fixture plate I tried to think of a quick and easy way to keep the holes clean from swarf and alike. I've settled on baking paper, It's quick to put on and easy to replace. I hold it in place with magnets. The alignment dowel pins...

It's been a while since I've posted a project, but I have had a few on the go. This is one of them. A tooling plate It's 24" x 10" and has a threaded hole grid of M6 x 1 at 1" spacing. In between those it has reamed 6mm holes at a 2" spacing for fixture alignment using 6mm dowel pins. It's...

This is a video I took nearly two years ago when work got a new Casio EX-F1 camera that could do high speed video. I've only just found the video again and though it might be of interest. http://www.youtube.com/v/glAl_1Yc-UQ&hl=en_US&fs=1&rel=0 The lube is WD40 in a pressure can. I was making...

Does anyone know who supplies 1144 stress-proof or ETD 150 in Australia? The west side of OZ would be best but hey, beggers can't be choosers can they. ::) I'm looking to get materials together for my 1/3 scale 9 cylinder Gnome project and would like to use stress-proof for the cylinders. If...

Happy Australia Day to all you Aussie blokes and sheilas out there. Time to Fire up the barbie, bog in to the sangers and rip the scab off a few coldies. The fireworks will be goin off tonight. Good onya boys, Phil A Sandgroper, and proud of it...

What better time than the start of a new decade to go back to the stone age. ;D Well the tools have arrived and it's time to make a start. Diamond polishing pads, assorted burs in different grades, small drills and a cup wheel all diamond coated. The hones I had already. Here are the raw...

Well I'll be buggered, my first engine finished and it runs. woohoo1 I started Elmer's little beam (#24) when I first got into the hobby a year ago. I got stuck at the point of making the cranks and linkages so left the little girl on the shelf while I distracted myself making tools. Well...

Could this be the start of my first steam engine made from granite? Naw ;D I just got a job to drill some 18mm core samples out of some 50mm diameter 1200m deep bore hole samples for testing at the university I work at. It took longer to make the rotary water coupling and containment tank...

Not wanting to high jack Tim's thread, I thought this might be a good place to post an Excel spread sheet that I used to obtain an accurate button size and spacing for cutting of the form tool. The method I used was taken from the Workshop Practice Series #17 - Gears and gear cutting. You...

With so many Hoglets getting around now days, I thought it would be time to even up the score. Does anyone know of any BMW R model boxer engine drawings or plans? Air head would be preferable to oil head engines. Cheers Phil Long live the K100 ;D

Well I don't know if they were really around b4 Lego, but they are old enough 2 b. Can any one shed some light on how old they are, and indeed what they were called? I was given them when I was 6 by an elderly couple living next door to us in Albany, Western Australia. The neighbors were...

Hi all, I'm making an ER32 collet chuck like Arnold http://www.homemodelenginemachinist.com/index.php?topic=5843.0 for my lathe, but am not certain as to the correct nominal spindle thread size. The major diameter on the spindle is 1.910" and the minor diameters on the three chuck back plates...

Yep, Got one of those too. Found it on Flee bay a while ago. Chomping out 4140 is not an issue. Cheers Phil

G'day After I had a 20mm end mill go walkies in my R8 collet on some deep cuts in 4140 steel, I came up with this No damage apart from the extra depth of cut that wasn't needed. I marked a line with an Artline (magic marker I think you guys call them in the USA) on the cutter where it meets...

Does any one know what the metal used in printer and scanner linear bearings is? I'm talking about the long rods that typically have a bronze bush slide up and down it's length. It' is silver in colour all the way through, (Stainless silver not mild steel silver)with no exterior coating. It...

Hi Ryan, I'd stick on the list the following, Fly cutter - but you can make your own cheap and easy Clamp kit - a lot of jobs don't need a vice and can be clamped directly to the table Thin double sided tape - great for fly cutting thin sheet stuck to the mill table Cheers Phil

This is a small off shoot from making the QCTP. You how it goes, make a tool to make a tool to make a project. I'm waiting for the dovetail cutter anyway. The electronic parts and cost under $10 and the spring I got from an auto shop for $2.50. All the steel is of unknown grade out of the scrap...

Well after 9 months of anticipation, and 3 hours of pain, that's my pain not the wife's (You know, getting your arm pulled from it's socket, fingers crushed and their grip like a large Kirt vice. Crap those ladies can develop some strength when their in labor) God blessed us with a perfect...

Does anyone know of an Australian source for adjustable parallels and 123 blocks. There is plenty of suppliers in the USA but the postage is as much as the item when you get them shipped to down under. Must be the cost of reorganization the sub-atomic particles in the metal when they hit the...