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Bought one from a scrap yard many years ago, a Cincinatti unit with all the drive gears on it. The guy in the scrap yard said it was useless as it had an enormous amount of backlash and the company who owned it said it had had it's day. I said that I'd take the risk and paid him the princely sum...

Try looking up "The Peter Principal" by Dr. Laurence Peter and Raymond Hill, Every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence, and in my career of getting on for 50+ years in industry I have seen it occur O so many times.

Hi Steamchick. I do understand the purpose of the OFF switch but needed the machine powered up to find the fault, wonderful stuff electrickery and yes it does fricken me, especially when playing around with inverter drives that play around with 575v DC. Now that can hurt but only once. By the...

Bloody electrical circuits. I was working on a 3 phase mig welding plant. Had the sides off and was trying to trace a fault. I also had a hiatus hernia and had been suffering with reflux for years. Normally Zantac kept it under control but with no closure to the stomach and working almost upside...

Sorry, that's "The Flying Milliard".

A very knowledgeable gentleman that I have heard of, by the name of Alan Milliard, has made a motor from 2 cylinders from a radial engine from a DC3. Calls it the Milliards Flyer and is a 5 ltr vee twin motorcycle. Look very retro and goes like the devil. Look it up on U-Tube.

Hi All, You might like to look up the drawings in L.J.K. Setright's book "Some Unusual Engines". It shows the Ford Swash Plate engine as well as some other interesting engines. Dam good read.

I did my apprenticeship as an Aircraft Toolmaker and ended up as a self employed compressed air engineer. I am also a pressure vessel examiner and carry out work for the HSE and some insurance companies. Whilst on a course with BCAS in London an example of how dangerous compressed gasses can be...

Hi Nigel, Looking very nice, well proportioned and still shiny. Many years ago I turned my hand to a 2" Burrell compound showman's engine. Had me in tears at times but in the end I managed to finish it. It sat in my living room gathering dust and cobwebs until in the end I sold it and bought a...

Hi all, I'm building the Stuart Turner Major beam engine at the moment. I should have it finished sometime this year but have been working on it for the best part of 18 years. Working on the governor system and having fun with the 7/8" balls.

Beautifully made model, good job you don't live in the UK as it comes under the fire arms regulations as a section 1 fire arm and unless registered and proofed can result in a hefty fine or prison sentence. Damned regulations.

Many thanks "Awake", have printed off the drawings and will start getting the materials from some of my customers scrap bins. Will let you know how I get on.

We always refer to them as Suzi lines. Where are you as I sell them.

I thought my workshop was untidy, congratulations, you've beaten me. Trouble is I keep getting hold of redundant bits and pieces from my clients engineering works. Got loads of boxes with taps and reamers, collets and holders and all kinds of junk thrown out by their works formen. Can't just...

Seeing the conversations concerning very small drills and the difficulty in using them, one of my clients manufactures air bearing spindles. These are used for drilling holes as small as 0.005" and run at speeds as fast as 80-100,000 rpm. I have no idea of the cost but might be worth having a...

Hi Craig, Use a big copper and hide hammer, also known as a Birmingham screw driver. Works wonders.

Always buy separate lathe and mill and try to look at second hand machine tools. I purchased a used Colchester Bantam 2000 lathe from one of my customers who was moving his manufacturing facility to China. I serviced all the companies air compressors and when I said that I was looking for a...

Good Luck, hope it all goes well.

I look forward to getting together when all this trouble is over. Regards, Graham T.

Hi **** G, What Number Dewlands Road ? Regards, Graham T.