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Welcome to the forum Paul. I am guessing that Caledon is not in Poland but in the Toronto, Ontario area of Canada.

The Sten gun was a classic example of 'you get what you pay for'. They cost less than $3.00 to produce during WWII.

Here is another alternative for a boring bar. The one in the bottom right is ground out of a 3/16" HSS tool bit to thread a 10-32 blind nut. Another suggestion for Acme threads is to cut a partial V thread first.

A fantastic journey to produce a winner. Congratulations.

A comment to cause confusion with all the other previous comments. It is quite common for the start winding in 120/240 motors to be 120 volts in either configuration. The start winding is tied to the end of the run winding that is either one end in parallel or the junction point in series.

Is the piston in the end of the test tube, or is that a separate cylinder? When building lamina engines I had trouble finding test tubes with truly round ID and no taper.

Don't expect anything on a MGB to be conventional. Their design people tended to take the long way around to solve a problem. For example, instead of a $2.00 thermostatic switch to close a choke plate for starting, they invented a million dollar carburetor that controlled the fuel. The vacuum...

I joked with the eye doc when she gave me a little card with the serial number and told me to keep it so that other doctors could look up the data on the lens. I told her that the number must be on her side, because i couldn't see it on my side. My wife is now scheduled for surgery in June and...

John: You are seriously messed up. You don't sell stuff that doesn't work to you friends. You sell it to the guys you don't like, at a silly price.

You will know your vision is as good as it is going to get when you can read the serial number on the implant.

Chuck brings up a good point because you need the length of the broach under the work piece when you press it through. To keep the press as stable as possible, I mounted the base at the front of a bench and then cut a slot out of the bench edge in line with the arbor.

I have multiple eye problems and the eye doc was reluctant to do cataract surgery. She finally agreed to do one and it made a tremendous improvement. I had the eye covered for 24 hours and then the doctor removed the patch and did her thing with the colored lights and microscope and declared me...

I don't think it is big enough for broaching. The smallest readily available broach is 1/16" and they are 5" long, so you would be restricted to a workpiece under 1/2" thick.

When you get it set up and having read the instruction manual, please tell us what this means: Usage: Spline Rolling Machine

Mike: You are comparing civil service jobs to private industry. In Canada, wages, benefits and pensions in all levels of government are way above private company rates. I expect a machinist working for the government would be earning more than the bus driver.

Good tradesmen are seldom out of work. The unemployed are the "never was a tradesman" or the ones who skipped class because 'I will never use that math or if they want a gear cut they can send it out'.

I never saw one of those but I'm thinking the next step up from that must have been the pegboard programmed lathe. In the early seventies I used to do service calls on a lathe that had two turrets and hundreds of relays The operator programmed it by putting pins in a big pegboard. I knew nothing...

Nice looking lathe. Out of all the lathes that I have owned, a 10K was the most suitable for model engine building. You do need a quick change tool post. If your lathe has the safety rod that keeps you from lifting the cover to change belts, put it in the scrap box.

Steamer: Not just the back gears but a belt reduction similar to all the belt driven lathes. Most are in the four or five to one ratio between the motor and an intermediate shaft. Lots of people have tried a VFD motor bypassing the first belt reduction without success. You have lots of speed...

GWR: Agreed. It is not for everything, just like there is no universal brazing product. If you are making a buildtup brass flywheel with lots of brazing, it is a lot cheaper. The lack of flow makes it ideal for fillet joints.