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Welcome to HMEM Hendrik ! Kind regards, Arnold

Jim, Andrew & Jan , thanks for checking in :) It's a pleasure Jan ;) Today it was on to the cylinder. Some 1" aluminium square stock - left over from the Grasshopper engine back when I built it - and showing how much I overtightened my poor chuck on it :-[: I faced that down to length in the...

John, Roger & Jan, thanks very much Gents :) Some of the "simple" parts in engine builds can take the most time to make... I started today's session with two blocks of 8mm aluminium plate for the bearing blocks: Those were glued together with one reference side in common, and finished to...

Bill, thanks :) - I'm already in love with the DRO ;D; it makes life a lot easier. Thanks Brian :) I hope the ride will be worthwhile. Thank you Jim :) Safety's always a main concern; I'm going to stay put and work in the shop ;D. Safe as barns, as long as I don't stick my fingers where they...

Having fitted the DRO to my mill, I looked through my list for a project to try it out and get to grips with it. Even though I have an itch to build a complex and detailed engine, I thought something fairly simple would be better to try out the DRO to get the gist of working with it. One of...

Congratulations and Well Done Pete :bow: - a well deserved honour. You did a right good job on the Northumbrian, and she runs like a champ Thm: Kind regards, Arnold

Sigh..... You get all the nice machines Andrew - Really nice score on this one Thm: Kind regards, Arnold

Thanks johnmcc69 :) Regards, Arnold

Hi Rich The link you supplied looks exactly like the 3-axis version of mine. In fact, the "TDRS" initials bit sounds suspiciously like the supplier I got mine from, even though its from a different seller as far as I can see. So I don't have much of a clue there; you might want to check out my...

The home stretch ;D I did a C-o-C and cut some bits of 20x20x3mm angle iron to make the brackets for the X cover, as well as two bits of 5mm thick flat bar to make square nuts: The blade I have currently in my band saw cuts horribly skew, so the bits above had to be squared up on the mill...

Coming along well Vince Thm: :big: I wasn't referring to the clamping - it's always better to clamp down a bit more. It's the 64 passes that got me - I'd bet you had a sore crank-arm after that! Kind regards, Arnold

:bow: :bow: Very nice indeed Ken; great runner. ::) If it's raining in CT, there's cold weather on the way here to Windhoek... I guess the Winter's arriving... Kind regards, Arnold

There you go Vince. You certainly erred on the side of caution there ;) When you're out and about, collect people's business cards (or any other thin cardstock for that matter; the business cards are always free ;) ). The stiff cardboard ones are great for helping to reliably hold parts where...

Good going Clive Thm: I'd advise against just plunging in only with slot mill held in the tailstock chuck. The brass will want to grab it and will easily pull the chuck out of the tailstock. First prize would be to make up a boring tool, and drill and bore the cylinder to size. You can also...

Some more done... No update yesterday evening; I had to attend to some other matters... On Monday evening before the power failure, I mounted the console mounting arm. I was in two minds about mounting it on the mill column, or on the head, and eventually decided to mount it on the head -...

;D That's running MUCH better now Stew Well Done :bow: Kind regards, Arnold

Hi Vince I'm not quite getting your problem ??? - so my advice might be wrong. If it's the big end in the last photo on your build thread, what I'd do is saw through like you describe, and clean up the faces. If you have a slitting saw and can set things up rigidly, you won't even have to...

Nice start on Elmer's wobbler Clive Thm: On the Elmer's engines I've built so far, I just took the plans and converted all measurements to metric and jotted down the values on the plans. I noticed you also converted threads to metric; that's just dandy. I just look up the closest metric thread...

Ken, I'm a bit of a night-owl myself - and don't mess with me until I'm on my second mug of strong coffee in the morning ::). For your sake I hope they don't implement DST for you guys. If it was not for the fact that I have to self-moderate and abide by forum rules, I'd have really let rip now...

Ken, with Namibia now on Winter time it was half an hour before midnight - but more enthusiasm than insomnia; I promptly went to bed after posting that lot... Now what kept you awake that late :big: Kind regards, Arnold