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;D Andrew, I have a desk till the end of this month... The bosses are a bit sad to see me go, but the new job I'm moving on to from next month is quite a big career step-up, and unfortunately they can't match it. I'll still deal with them regularly though; the IT community in Namibia is pretty...

Andrew, thanks Boet :) - the little engine has been amusing the heck out of my colleagues at work... The FD pops into my office regularly, sits down and turns the flywheel looking at the mechanism. Seems to take his mind off work things a bit, which is a good thing. I'm really glad I went to the...

Hi Ken It's possible that the scale uses a standard interface... I'm actually in communication with Scott at TheDROStore.com at the moment, and this very morning received a quote on a DRO and glass scales delivered here for less than half the price any local or RSA company quoted me so far...

Hi Ian There should be enough leeway on those specific engine plans to take of 5 thou per face on the hex for clean-up from what I can see. Just for the record, hex stock dimensions are always given as measured across flats. I'm not sure how far metrification has progressed in the area of...

That's a nice find Dave, and a well done bit of scraping as always :bow: Kind regards, Arnold

:big: Andrew stole the words from my mouth... A bobbejaan spanner is a most useful tool; if nothing else is around it can do pipe work, tighten or loosen bolts with rounded-over heads, and be used as a hammer ;D We call a crescent wrench a "shifting spanner" - used to round over bolt heads so...

That's a good job on the cams Stan, and great work all along Thm:. You might have been better off making the cams from steel, as they'll see quite a bit of wear, but now you've done it once, it will be easy to do later on if they start wearing. Thank you for the kind words - if I ever happen to...

Shopshoe, Ronald & Bob - many thanks Gents :) Kind regards, Arnold

The Kimble engine took me a bit longer to finish than I thought, but it was a lot of fun to build. Now on to some tooling. I'd mentioned earlier in this thread that I'd ordered some additional ER25 collets and a bearing based closer nut to make a new collet chuck for the mill quite a while...

Hi Ronald Do you perhaps have a full URL link to the web site you mentioned ? I can't find any reference to a "SpinningEngineerman" site - not even Google helps. Kind regards, Arnold

Very nice Beagles Thm: I took a liberty and changed your first post to take out the email address and rather provide a link to the thedrostore.com site; email addresses in posts gets picked up by nasties to use for spamming. Kind regards, Arnold

::) I forget about the big oceans in between... Locally here in Namibia they make shoes called "velskoene' and traditionally those have leather laces that are fairly thin strips of leather. If you know of someone that restores old books, you might be able to get some thin leather from them...

It's really coming along great Jerry Thm: How about a strip of leather for the friction material ? Kind regards, Arnold

:big: 43 to go John; good to keep me occupied for at least twenty years with tooling and some other builds interspersed ;D Thank you Jim BC1 :) - Display has to wait a bit; some tooling first ;) Jim AussyJimG, thank you. :) It's very good to hear that some of the things I show are useful, but...

Danstir, Chris & Bill - thanks very much Gents :) Chris, I'm not aware of anybody that has built all of them. MetalButcher here on HMEM has given the list a good go though! I want to build them all ;D - I've got 7 so far: #15 Fancy, #23 Tiny, #8 Scotty, #37 Grasshopper, #46 Comber, #43...

Vielen Dank herr Klotz ;) John, thank you very much :). I know you've mentioned a couple of times that you'd like to make one of these engines; it seems a shame that there are so few of them around. Thanks Ken :) - I'll hold up with engines for a while; time to catch up with tooling - that is...

Thanks Carl :) - Your wish is my command :big:. :-X That bottle is LONG gone - Doctor's prescriptions: Start the course and finish it :big:. Chris, thank you :) I hope today's photos are OK! ;D ;D ;D Well, the Kimble is a runner, but it didn't come without a fight. Actually I had it running...

Very nice runner CMS Thm: Kind regards, Arnold

Thanks Jim :) - that's exactly what HMEM is all about :) Carl, thank you :) - ??? why do you wear pants with cuffs in the shop ? - that's a sure-fire place for swarf to collect and get you in trouble with the better half :big: Thanks Andrew :) - That's an old Ford Essex engine... No frame...

:) Thanks Dave - I tend to do some things a bit "old fashioned" :big: ; my face plate is a good bit of kit to use! Thank you Jim :); the "paperweights" I have in my office will also have to come home now, as I accepted that new job that will leave me office-less :big: Carl, Thanks :) - I'm...