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Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand here's the video, which explains better than the post what I am trying to do. Need to up my game on making detailed posts as well as improving my machining.

Next bit was simple enough really - touch off on the highest feature (having first measured heights of all the features to know what was to come off), fix the quill, touch off by raising the knee, establish the highest plane and raise the knee accordingly to clean off the other surfaces. One...

Hehe - I see I've got a dimension snapped to the end of a center line rather than a hole center. A few things to check there before I cut anything! This is one of the pitfalls of redrawing stuff.

Stumbling forward at a breakneck pace, I actually clamped the base to the mill table tonight. It is clamped on top of a sacrificial aluminium plate which has been skimmed flat on both sides. In order to get it lined up and ready I indicated the 4 red surfaces (edges) of the raised square, and...

If there is a difference, I don't know what it is - and I don't think it matters a whole lot. Not nearly as much as actually making the engine. That's what matters. I just got finished re-dimensioning the plan for the base, so I'll be setting that up and going at it with reckless abandon soon...

It’s a lot of $$’s for sure. I had to save for quite a while before pulling the trigger myself. I was pleased to be able to see the castings in the flesh when buying.

I assumed you were asking about any special pricing I might have had as a result of buying at the show. Standard pricing is all on his website: https://www.martinmodel.com/products/mery-engine-casting-set It is a lovely engine - a very interesting crossover ftom steam design to IC design...

Oh, I'd prefer to keep that between Gary Martin and myself. What I will say is that his castings are absolutely superb and worth every penny he is asking - plus his drawings are some of the best I've seen supplied with an engine kit.

I think I've put this in the wrong section. What's the difference between "Building them" and "showing them - work in progress"? I guess I don't mind either way - if this thread gets moved to the build logs step by step that is certainly just fine.

Finally back to making an actual engine. The ME Beam is a very pretty engine when finished, with quite a lot going on. As a basis I am using the Reeves offering of castings, which I purchased about 2 years ago I think. My initial look over the castings says they are OK - not warped or twisted...

It's not for sale.

That's exactly what I'm trying to offer really. I think there might be some folks around who would like some bits and pieces modeled and drawn and have no way to get it done, so I'm trying to help out my mates in the model engineering / home fabrication / home machinist community. I suspect it's...

I was hoping there would be a couple of guesses and see if someone could win a free drawing, but there isn't very likely to be those guesses, so I'll just come out with it and say I charged him $15 for this one. That is not a fixed price - it depends on amount of info provided, amount of...

Hey Karl! It was a great pleasure talking to you at the show. Thank you for your kind words - as easy as it is to spend time there I don't seem to get to do it as much as I would like. I actually purchased a Mery at the show and took it home with me. I have a couple of other engines to build...

SW basic is still about 4K I believe and is a perpetual license. That's standard on Solidworks, although they are pushing the cloud based version HARD. I use the software professionally, so the upgrades are worthwhile. Even essential, in fact. Solidworks change to a new version every year that...

I did charge him for the drawing.

Attached here is a drawing packet for a lathe cross slide lock I designed. You can see a video series on it here: The drawings are free for you to use and adapt the design to your lathe should you want to. One of my subscribers altered the design in a very interesting way and I'll be...

This is true - for the casual user there are more basic, less flexible tools that are much lower cost that are more appropriate and easier to keep up to speed on. Casual users are going to draw turned and milled parts for the most part, and won't need a lot of - if indeed any - of the more...

Here's an example of client documentation to finished drawing. Now - a word or two on the drawing. I start on the assumption that the finished article is to be made to ASME Y14.5 (the American Standard for engineering drawings), which in essence says you make a drawing of the finished part...

You speak truthfulness there. I don't win much at auction - but when I do it works out well. But those others who pay more - as long as they feel good about it, good luck to them. Anyway, the lathe is a Summit 1440D. It indeed looks a lot like offerings from a numbver of other importers...