Hi all. I am a Boilermaker by trade. I have been a hobby machinist for a long long time and have made various gadgets and bits and pieces. I am about to embark on a garden scale steam loco. I have just stumbled upon this awesome site and I have to say wow to the standard of work I have seen so far. Such inspiration ! Daryl.
Hi from the Newcastle, Australia
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Hi Daryl, welcome to the group. You will certainly pick up a lot from the members here, ask any questions you like, someone will help you.
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Hi Daryl,
Welcome from faraway Singapore.
Paul and Gus are both starting to machine/build the Nemett-Lynx Engine. Paul is my maestro.
All in would be three HMEM Forum members each building their own ''Lynx" engine. Will be fun.
Welcome from faraway Singapore.
Paul and Gus are both starting to machine/build the Nemett-Lynx Engine. Paul is my maestro.
All in would be three HMEM Forum members each building their own ''Lynx" engine. Will be fun.
Daryl, a steam locomotive "build" is a daunting task, especially if the monster is "basement" designed and built, with little to follow in the way of blueprints. My "scratch-build" took about 8000 hours, and 6 years of effort.
Oh dear, perhaps I am so outdated and aged that "blueprints" is an obsolete term! Computer Aided Design, and the like. But, you still likely would rather have a paper drawing hanging in front of your manual milling machine, than a computer screen, with all the oil, chips, etc., flying about!
Oh dear, perhaps I am so outdated and aged that "blueprints" is an obsolete term! Computer Aided Design, and the like. But, you still likely would rather have a paper drawing hanging in front of your manual milling machine, than a computer screen, with all the oil, chips, etc., flying about!
