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I came away with a few goodies, and a bunch of videos...

I have three welding books, ‘Weld like a pro”, “How to weld damn near anything” and ”Welder’s handbook”. Each only devotes a chapter to TIG, 20-30 pages. Each has some good tips but none alone would I suggest as a comprehensive study. I do car restoration, hence the automotive weld books...

Does the HMEM group get together at the show. I wouldn’t mind meeting some of you fine machinist. Tony

Do a web search on “flash rusting”. I have seen this many times in minutes.

This past Sunday, at our regular car Cruze-in, someone brought a couple of hit and miss engines and displayed them on his tailgate. The tag says Zanesville, OH., about 100 miles from Akron…. Small world. Welcome to the forum.

Nice!

I started out the same way. I made a few different wobblers, then a slide valve engine. A mill would have helped, but it wasn’t necessary. Welcome from the Washington DC suburbs.

I like the U channel idea, it looks like it is easy to clean and find dropped parts under the machines. I think it might be easier to level than a block of wood. When it pours, my garage floor gets wet so the wood might hold the water. However, I could mount some blocks on top of the U channel...

I was just thinking about starting a tread to ask a similar question, I hope I’m not too far off base… I would like to raise my Grizzly 0704 mill, with stand, to a better eye height and then bolt it, I think, to the floor, perhaps 6”. the floor is uneven. Any ideas?

I worked in TV maintenance for about 30 years. Our transmitters used various combinations of voltage and current 36KV at 1.5A and 40V at 400 A. Gas-tight, mechanically strong joints were very important. The correct crimp tool was, as you said, very important too. The joints which had the...

I learned 2d drafting in high school. Learning to recognize how an item looks from different views helped me in my 3D drafting. Probably, the most important thing to realize in 3D is that a x,y,z point in space from one view may be completely different in another view. Learning that early in...

Timo, do you have any info on the boiler, ie working pressure, typical run time….

Johan, love the brass, Is the piston also brass? This gets high numbers on my “fun to watch” scale.

Have you machined any (Fused, FDM ) PLA? I tried but no luck so far. I have the same problem drilling. It usually sticks to the bit and becomes a blob of a mess. Hand drilling, (no motor) works. By the way, nice job!

Yes that does help. I randomly picked some diameters and various radii (to make something which looked like Minh’s crank) and then modeled them in Freecad FEA. I was getting various results, but not what I expected. I was mostly expecting the stresses to move away from the radius but it did...

I’m a car guy, I always love seeing something new… love the car. Welcome!

These were at the steam/gas tractor show last weekend… I have some close-ups if interested…

I used Autocad at work since the 80s and owned the original Autocad Lite when it was a reasonable $99. When I retired, I requested that I be able to keep my copy of Autocad 2007 (as the company had purchased new copies on different licenses) instead of a parting gift. Imagine my surprise when...

Although I haven’t broken anything yet, I see I have been turning my cuts way too sharp without a nice radius. This thread has sent me reading up on stress raisers, stress fractures, and material failures. Now I feel like I have just enough information to be dangerous. My research has raised a...

Car guy and weekend machinist, great combination! I too restore cars, during the summer, and work in the basement shop during the cold months. I’ll be getting back to work on a 49Ford pickup hot rod In a couple months. I’m just finishing up an Astrolabe project. I’m still working out the...