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. I eve been thinking of my small steamer again . I need a review of timing piston ported steamer with eccentric adjustment in the piston valve. As I recall the last I was able to find is to set the eccentric adjustment on the piston about 90 degrees before TDC. What I think I did was...

It’s blowing 40+ mph today so a good excuse to stay indoors not too cold but wind is terrible it snowed pellets last night but they melted quickly . I got my self drilling tapping screws today so I’m planning on fixing the dumb shovel I’ll have to pre drill the hole then us a standard Phillips...

Just sitting here nursing pulled muscles in my back . What used to be just a play hurt issue is now a very difficult thing . Just moving around is an issue. I changed resting chairs for one I don’t really like but is has a feature that supports near perfect . Unfortunately that’s about all it...

Ain’t that the truth . I have stuff ordered . Not being able to drive is a real handicap I’m looking at an E bike for the summer those with fat tires actually work quite well in winter So we will see as weather improves.

That would be fine if I had nails . LOL I CAN Drill MOST ANY HOLE AND INHAVE A NIFTY HAMMER . I found self tapping screws in stainless steel Then of all things I don’t have a good enough Phillips screwdriver do I have some 1/4” hex driver bits coming so it will be an easy fix once I get the...

I got the snow shoveled out to the street. My shovel handle broke a rivet pulled through . Of course of all the screws I have none are suitable so I had to order some fortunately not expensive I could have fixed it wit pop rivets but that tool is out at my sons shop 65 miles away

Well back to winter weather. Local weather says we got 13” of wet snow . I’m trying to not go out as i twisted my back earlier . But we are supposed to get more to night then it’s going to warm up again. Winter’s last gasp I YHINK I hope it isn’t mine too .

I have used the higher alloys of aluminum and they indeed are easier to machine and drill and tap . Cast tooling plate is probably the worst of all for very small taps and drills

Finally coming out of twisted back injury. At least I can move about without a lot of pain. Weather is ok for today but rain forecast for week end in to next week more snow and ice will go away . I’m continuing on my metric tap and drill guide. Tapping the aluminum is fussy with small taps...

For a change I don’t have anything about weather . However I nearly fainted when I saw the news about the school shooting in Nashville . My grand daughter and grand son both go to school there . I didn’t know where or how close they were so I called my son but he was off working . I just talked...

Thanks so much I believe this will really help . I have a 1/4” thick aluminum plate that I YHINK I will make a tapped hole guide using each of my taps . From this es charts I can then identify each hole and drill size used then mark the tap threads created. I’ll try and start laying this out...

Today was groceries day so my sister and I did that I tried to get a hair cut but it was a 2 hour wait and that was not acceptable so it stays the same I don’t have enough for it even get shaggy so no big deal I’m trying to sort out metric threads . I wish there was a chart that I could...

Enjoying a little sun , it’s nt very warm but supposed to get up to 40 so more snow will melt I’ll go for a walk later to get in daily exercise requirement . Working on steam turbine electric generators I got a piece of UHMWPE. So drilling and tapping holes is much easier I have to come up...

INR test done and got good results , so that went well . Still have to go for walk . Sorting out some model stuff I have a pkg of 4 metric taps that I really need has disappeared . I’m going through everything that was moved off the table. I did find the letter opener. I was just going to...