hello folks
I am a semi retired Electrician who is the wrong side of 55, I am also an avid caver (mainly armchair these days) but with an interest in all things mechanical and such stuff, I like steam engines, motorbikes , all the usual stuff, I built an Elmers horizontal mill engine after finding a set of drawings online and enjoyed it so much that I bought a set of castings for the Stuart D10 which was supposed to be a summer evenings project, however I completed it during Lockdown, so now I am looking around for something else.
I own a small Chester Conquest lathe that I have upgraded with new tapered tension bearings and metal drive sprockets and also a Hobbymat BFE65 vertical mill which is old as the hills but actually really nice, I squeeze it all into my 8x10 shed along with a wood lathe and various other bits like a bandsaw and router table set up.
below is a short video of the stuart that I built last running on compressed air.
That is about it...Hello
I am a semi retired Electrician who is the wrong side of 55, I am also an avid caver (mainly armchair these days) but with an interest in all things mechanical and such stuff, I like steam engines, motorbikes , all the usual stuff, I built an Elmers horizontal mill engine after finding a set of drawings online and enjoyed it so much that I bought a set of castings for the Stuart D10 which was supposed to be a summer evenings project, however I completed it during Lockdown, so now I am looking around for something else.
I own a small Chester Conquest lathe that I have upgraded with new tapered tension bearings and metal drive sprockets and also a Hobbymat BFE65 vertical mill which is old as the hills but actually really nice, I squeeze it all into my 8x10 shed along with a wood lathe and various other bits like a bandsaw and router table set up.
below is a short video of the stuart that I built last running on compressed air.
That is about it...Hello
