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JasonB. My idea was to clamp two pieces of melamine faced furniture board together with a flask clamped on as well, mark out the dowel holes for the pattern and drill through both boards, and at the same time drill through the brackets on the flask too. Your way might be easier and more precise...

I had a small shopping bag with me for the water, and of course the shopping I was going to buy, but I didn't think of a notepad. Today I ache like mad, but I still took a walk to the village shop, 1/4 of a mile each way. It eased the aches a bit! If I going to get into walking again I will...

This is my first experience with resin printing, so I don't know anything about reactions with paint etc. The big end and little end are hollow to allow them to fit over the bosses in the plate and to save resin. The rod body is slightly hollow, again for resin saving. The paint used was an...

I am subscribed to Myfordboy and I watched that video when it was released. THanks for the link though, I might watch it again. I have seperated the conrod pattern from the baseplate and managed to bend it back into shape with a little heat. I have now rebonded the conrod to the plate holding it...

Hi Don. I am not sure who did the video on glueing the gating to the plate, but it sounds like a good idea. I would make a flask that was a good fit around the base, the blue bit. If I use the same flask to make the top and the bottom of the mould they two halves should go back together with...

I felt like a bit of excercise this morning, most of the hard gardening work is done and I wanted a good walk. I decided to walk to Tesco which is about three miles away. I took a bottle of water and wore an anorak, and set off at 9.20. I stopped at the village shop and bought a small bar of...

I am nearly ready to try a casting using patterns made with my resin 3D printer. I printed the conrod pattern with my resin printer and the baseplate with my Ender3. The baseplate will need the layer lines filled in, but that's a simple task. The plate has two raised bosses that the conrod sits...

If she had jumped off the plane as it landed then did a barrel roll with double somersault, I would have been impressed. Obviously a staged stunt, but how did the plane take off with only one wheel?

There has been some amazing machinery made for war. I wonder if that system was used elsewhere? My late father was a tank driver after the war. He was stationed in Germany in the early 50s where he met his future wife, my mother, a Welsh girl visiting her brother, my dads commanding officer. My...

I can't help with your enquiry. Perhaps you can answer mine. It looks as though shaft F slides within shaft H. Is this to allow adjustment of the camshaft timing? Good luck with the build. Lee

It's good to get some work done.

Will you post the build progress?

Will you cast the parts, or machine from solid? The parts circled in red might be core plugs. Lee

You can just see the tow ball under the back end. I made a small trailer from moped wheels and other oddments. It used to come off the ball and ram me before going off at a tangent. I stopped using it after it did that a few times!

It's just that as a retired carpenter I still like a decent piece of wood. I even made my car out of wood.

I sometimes see mobile artistes camped in lay-bys using a chain saw to carve tree trunks into a shape. I bet you could carve a chunk of yours into an eagle. Maybe start with a sparrow?

I think if I had large amounts of tree trunk like that I would be looking at some way of turning them into a garden feature. My imagination hasn't come up with "what sort of feature?".

minh-thanh. Nice.

I ordered a bottle of Elegoo water washable resin, it should be delivered today. I tried to get some microfibre wipes for the FEP cleaning, and a bottle of IPA. No luck so far, I will try in town in a day or so. I still use my Ender3 for simple prototype printing, less cleaning up and cheaper.

dnalot. I discovered this evening that the surface deformation between the supports is called "sagging". It's nice to know that it wasn't a fault with the printer! I use Prusa slicer to produce a finished STL file that I can import into Photon workshop slicer to create the sliced file for the...