Hello all! First off I would like to thank everyone on this forum for what they do, I have 3 days total time logged in here so far just reading and being amazed at what you all have done. I would especially like to thank Brian Rumpnow for his excellent posts and plans he has created. I am sure they will keep my shop time occupied for many hours to come. I stumbled across this site looking at Stirling engines on YouTube.
I have been taking things apart and trying to put them back together all my life, the chair my mothers friend was sitting on, was not such a good idea at the time, but I was only 3. I have education in architectural technology and computer programming. In high school I took machine shop classes where I had built 2 miniature cannons, one functional
. I got back into RC planes several years ago and with that started to acquire parts for building a cnc router to make plane parts.
Several years ago I acquired a Tos 40 lathe and a Tos fnk 25 mill and all the tooling to go with them.
These belonged to my best friends (we have been trying to kill each other for 40+ years) father. These were moved into my brother-in-laws garage so we both can use them.
We had to put a 20 x 25 dust cover over them :big:.
With this I started to make a Stirling motor from Jans plans. I am finding that my tooling is a little large for this so I am slowly re-tooling for smaller stuff. I hope to acquire a 3 or 4 four jaw chuck to mount in the chuck of the lathe. I am thinking this will allow me to hold the smaller size materials for these models.
I do not have any real formal training for machining but I am willing to learn with the help of all of you here, so all comments are read and thought upon.
Again I can only thank you all for this site, I hope I can add to these excellent surroundings.
Tom
I have been taking things apart and trying to put them back together all my life, the chair my mothers friend was sitting on, was not such a good idea at the time, but I was only 3. I have education in architectural technology and computer programming. In high school I took machine shop classes where I had built 2 miniature cannons, one functional
. I got back into RC planes several years ago and with that started to acquire parts for building a cnc router to make plane parts.Several years ago I acquired a Tos 40 lathe and a Tos fnk 25 mill and all the tooling to go with them.
These belonged to my best friends (we have been trying to kill each other for 40+ years) father. These were moved into my brother-in-laws garage so we both can use them.
We had to put a 20 x 25 dust cover over them :big:.
With this I started to make a Stirling motor from Jans plans. I am finding that my tooling is a little large for this so I am slowly re-tooling for smaller stuff. I hope to acquire a 3 or 4 four jaw chuck to mount in the chuck of the lathe. I am thinking this will allow me to hold the smaller size materials for these models.
I do not have any real formal training for machining but I am willing to learn with the help of all of you here, so all comments are read and thought upon.
Again I can only thank you all for this site, I hope I can add to these excellent surroundings.
Tom
