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Hi rescued this machine this week from getting smashed,know some people may think its not worth saving but i like old machines and would rather put some time into this than a chinese machine the other reason is if you can forgive this yorkshire saying its built like a brick **** house lol anyway...

Started a build last year and soon found out i was in trouble with the valves so built a few wobblers and kept reading threads on here and looking how other people handled and held work for different operations. So wanted to build something that looked like a mill engine but realized that...

went back to my home town today first time since i moved away in 1966 and i found these cars i didnt have a camera but managed to find other pictures on the net may intrest some people. http://www.flickr.com/photos/45777493@N06/5376238566/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valveless

just read a thread about a flame licker that went into depth about wicks and the term (capillary action) this jogged my memory to something i tried many years ago to do and failed and its always been in the back of my mind. Anyway many moons ago whilst i still had a full head of hair i booked...

after getting my workshop broke into and loosing most of my tools i decided even though it was a bad idea that the redundand pillar drill in the corner of the workshop was going to mill,so new bearings allter quill adjustment putting it onto a proper key and keyway then make a quill lock and an...

Hello i made myself a member here then started to build what i thought would be an easy first engine,but work soon stopped as my workshop was broken into and everything stolen all but my lathe so saying hello was to date my only post. I made my mind up that i had finished and wasnt going to...

just saying hi, new here and new to this as a hobby spent my life as a mechanic in garages the last 18 years i spend rebuilding auto engines.havn't touched a lathe since my school days other than turning the odd bush or shaft for some project usually for other peoples