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Try minimizing the Shout Box. My system goes from 5% to 57% when it is open and running. Appears to be a CPU hog.

I have a friend that I designed and built a steam engine for some months back. Last night I was surprised to receive the gift in the photo below. It is an early 1900's cut away view of a steam engine used in basic science and engineering classes to demonstrate how things work. It has an eccentic...

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Here is what I did: http://www.homemodelenginemachinist.com/index.php?topic=6955.0 It was cheap, quick and easy. (just my style) Here is another solution I liked: http://www.homemodelenginemachinist.com/index.php?topic=7087.0

The 7x10 made in China and sold under many different names is a pretty good hobby machine. You can get started pretty cheap. To really work well the lathe needs to be disassembled, deburred, cleaned, reassembled and aligned. All that info is available on this site and others. It is small enough...

When making the valve you can either use a live center to keep it stable or work as close to the chuck as possible moving the work piece out a little at a time to make the next cut. Don't try to extend the valve out far enough to make all the cuts at once. A 1/4" diameter rod is too thin and...

Very nice version of a rotary valve. I also did Elmer's rotary valve just because it was interesting to me. I like the scale of yours. Good job. Thm: I assume the G clamp is the same as what we call the C clamp over here? Another bit of difference in our "common" language. :big:

Welcome to the forum. You have already found one of the issues you learn to deal with and that is minor mistakes. When faced with this just step back and see if you can figure a way to adapt or improvise a solution. As Bearcat said, you can use a larger tap / screw. Another possible solution is...

Jeremy; Welcome to the forum. You will find a lot of helpful members here and many of them with tons of experience. So just ask anytime you need to know how to do something. This engine was designed to be easy and flexible to build. You can substitute almost anything and make it work. You can...

Yes, that would be something you could do with minium tools. There are others like it out there also. A number of them were published in old issues of Popular Mechanics and other magazines. Part of the fun is to see what you can do with what you have and then adapt or modify parts and pieces...

Not sure about this. I have looked at the Upshur website several times and intend to order a set of plans from there at some point. The description says: 1. A thirty-nine sheet drawing set covering four farm type engines, two horizontal, two vertical, water cooled or air cooled with...

Scary part is that I recently read that China was soon to be the country with the largest English speaking population in the world!! Wonder what snag means over there?

Zee; I think your spindle has an MT3 taper doesn't it? If you want to check / square up the back of the chuck I have a 1/2" MT3 collet that you can borrow for this. Just let me know. Might also come in handy for setting up the head. Eliminates the chuck entirely.

Zee; I took a measure similar to yours except without the dead center. Put my DTI inside the ram to measure it there. Eliminated one variable.

Nice! I am going to have to add one of these to a future project. Really like the looks. Thanks for the photos.

Awesome. I love adapt, recycle, reuse and use it if fits / works. Thm: Looking great. Keep those photos coming.

Now there is an excellent project well executed. Awesome. Super photos. Karma point for you!

Zee; of all the things I did to my 7x10 I think getting the tail stock aligned gained the most improvement. I also took the compound off and replaced it with a solid block. Helped to make things more rigid and I set it so that most of my tools were on center without shims. Made tool changes...

Nice description of the ball joints. Looks fairly straight forward. How did you make the ball ends?