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I have some 400gm (14oz) containers of Cherry Red case hardening powder for sale. If anyone in Oz is interested please PM me here or email me at r-j-wardATbigpond.com. $30 pick up or $37 by mail anywhere in Australia.

Among some machining bits and pieces I was given recently are a pair of Rivett 1A collets, a 5/16" and a 7/16", which I will never have a use for. They are yours if you live in Australia, just buy me a beer when I see you. r-j-wardATbigpond.com

I made this wheel barrow style trolley for my 6 x 4 bandsaw a while ago from shorts of 50 x 50 and 50 x 25 RHS, and a 15mm ply floor. When I first made the trolley my only idea was to make the bandsaw readily moveable, but it turned out I also solved another 6 x 4 problem, the problem of the...

I knocked my 6 x 4 bandsaw over a while ago and it landed on the end cap of the motor. The die cast aluminium end cap hardly looks damaged, but it distorted enough for the rotor to slightly contact the windings and for the motor to no longer work. The motor on this import bandsaw is a .25kw/...

I'm going on a SKI (Spending Kids Inheritance ;D) holiday to the US & UK soon, and am hoping there might be a model show or 3 along our route. I've done the usual google thing with little success, although it did tell me about the Bristol UK show. July in the US we will be meandering by car...

Not a model, but extremely cool all the same. The Cruquius pumping station in the Netherlands has a beam engine with a 3.5m/12' cylinder and 8, yes 8, beams. Follow the links from Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornish_engine

The locking handle on a QCTP is unrestrained and rotates 360° when you don't have a holder mounted on the QTCP. During drilling or reaming operations, when you don't necessarily have a tool on the QCTP, there is nothing to stop the handle rotating to where its not wanted. I always make a...

Spotted this over on PM. It's a link to the extensively photographed and very well done build of an 0-4-0 Decauville steam loco. Some of the techniques are interesting, such as flycutting in a horizontal mill. The text is in French, but you know what they say about pictures ;)...

These are a couple of photos for the Stirling engine fans. The engine was at the Edendale Crank-Up on the weekend of 31st Jan/1st Feb 2009. The rest of the photos of the Crank-Up will be over on homeshopmachinist

This is the ER version of the ubiquitous 5C hex collet block, and was inspired by Bogstandard's 5C to ER32 headstock adaptor, which enables the ER32 to be used as a pass through collet. It was made using materials to hand, ie 32mm hex and 40mm round. A better solution (you always think of the...

Awesome project, truly inspiring. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7537462.stm

I try to do all my machining in metric, but I couldn't avoid having to cut a one off 1/2" 12 TPI whitworth thread. And I didn't have the proper 55° insert. 55° threading inserts are 10 for $100, and not sold singley at the local supplier, so they were out of the question, and I haven't turned...

Spotted this over on backyardmetalcasting.com http://backyardmetalcasting.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2285