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Get what you need now, and fill in your collection over time. ;D

Looks like a good time to use the stripper bolts of recent topic. :D Hmmm...

Great! It's nice to see so many locomotives popping up here, and even better when they're Crackers. :D When I turned the wheels for my two, I added a boss to the inside face, to have a place for securing setscrews. I used the same boss to hold the wheels while facing them, then set the tool...

Great frames! Man, I'm having locomotive withdrawal symptoms. :bow: Go, Zeepster! Sooooooooooo true!

That's a great idea. Cheap and plentiful copper pieces with no risk of wrecking the parts you've got lots of time invested in. :bow:

Nice step-by-step thread. :bow: My Crackers are using a few Idris components, as well.

Quiet, you. :P Welcome back, MB!

I've wanted to build one of these for a long time... maybe I will one day. ;D Great work, thanks for sharing your progress.

Great work so far. I'm glad to see this loco going together. :bow:

Very nice, congrats. :D

I've used them a bunch; in plain bores, with oillite bushings, and even with needle bearings, once.

Regular thread lead screws. Tiny, too, 1/4"-20. I've seen small Acme thread, but never a ball screw small enough to retrofit... but I'm looking. :D

Phooey.. I thought this was going to be a thread about snow. :P

Nice looking machine, congrats. :D

Yeah yeah, it's got it's own thread! This space reserved for Locomotives.

Next up, the cute little toolpost from A2ZCNC. All aluminum and Sherline sized, this QCTP falls somewhere between building my own, and buying that Aloris I've always wanted. Not happy with the chattery finish on the locking cam and center post, I couldn't resist cleaning up the finish on both...

One of the first troubles was this crunched power supply. The box arrived via our fine postal service, in a rather sad state. Accordion'ed for most of it's length, no single panel of the box was undamaged, and a rather large hole had been covered by some randomly-applied packing tape. Most of...

Well, I've finally managed to get a lathe at home! To compliment my little Sherline mill, I've paired it with a Sherline lathe, which I'll be converting to a CNC machine. For now, it's a basic "CNC Ready" lathe (thrust bearings on the leadscrews, and motor mounts already fitted from the...

Thank you all for those kind words. :D Several months ago, my workplace shut down the second-shift, cutting off the majority of my play-time and halting my progress on the locomotives, for want of a lathe. Until now. :D

Congrats, Arnold... Fred is amazing. :bow: :bow: