Welcome!!

[b.lindsey]

Welcome Swarf Rat and Tony! Sounds like you both have lots of experience and will definitely fit right in here. Looking forward to some pics of both your projects.

Regards,

Bill

 

[Maryak]

To our new members,

Welcome to our forum. wEc1

Best Regards
Bob

 

[slkride]

Hello from N.W. Ohio
I'm a newbie to this site, and having a great time too!! I've been in the hobby for quite some time, but only one or two guys in my local area has any clue as to what goes on in the shop. My main lathe is a South Bend 9a, (Dad bought it new in 1944) I've been working with it since I was 6yrs. old. When I figure how to post pic and videos I will share some of my work with everyone out their. Looking forward to the many wonderful things this site has to offer.

slkride (Tom)

 

[S3MIH3MI]

Hi everyone. New here. I have been looking for a good forum with good advice good people as well as project ideas.

I have been lurking for about a week now.

I think I found what I was looking for.


Cheers from Windsor, Ontario Canada

Phil

 

[hobbysat]

Hello to everybody! Happy to find this forum. Few weeks ago, I bought my first mini-mill and a mini-lathe and I built a simple oscillating engine. I'm ready for new projects. But first, I have a lot to learn.
Cristi - Bucharest, Romania
P.S. Sorry for my english

 

[Metal Butcher]

Welcome to HMEM hobysat! You are in the right place to learn! You will find all the information you need, to learn how to build model engines. *discussion*

PS. You english is perfect, actually better than mine! Rof}

-MB

 

[Tin Falcon]

hobbysat thanks for the intro! do not worry about the English just do your best. Besides it looks preety good .

Welcome Tin

 

[hobbysat]

Thanks for the welcome given.

 

[ToolsforTools]

Hi everyone, my names Jarrett and i'm an apprentice toolmaker and machinist from the UK. Im really interested in the topics and information in this forum. Seems there are some very knowledgable people here.

Thanks

 

[padraic.rourke]

hi,
my name is padraic, im irish and im young for the game, only 16, but my father is into stationary engines and he has also made models. i have all the machinery i could need available to me so im wondering what should i start making? i have repaired some models that i own but never made one so im hopeing someone could point me in the right direction?
thanks guys iv seen your pictures you make nice stuff,
thanks again
padraic

 

[geoff p]

Hi,
My name is Geoff Probert ( from ap Robert, the Son of Robert), though when I was teaching my Head of Department called me Mr P or Mr Probes, and it just sort of stuck. I was born in Middlesex, 67-years ago, and brought-up in Berkshire.

About forty years ago a neighbour swapped my anvil for his Round-bed Drummond lathe. Oh wow! A couple of weeks turning everything I could into swarf got me itching to do something useful. My wife helped me collect milk-bottle tops - gazillions of 'em - which were melted-down to become parts for a very primitive stationary steam engine.

Eventually I had several lathes and a fine, old Herbert milling machine, but, alas, lost the lot by going bust!

Now I am retired and live in Thailand, where my 'workshop' comprises a tiny little Mr Meister lathe, a pretty-damned-useless drill-press, and a vise G-cramped to the wall, all out on my front porch.

I'm making a double-diagonal paddle-steamer engine from home-made aluminium castings (I'll post pictures sometime in a thread) and enjoying the challenge of 'How can I make ...' within the limitations of my 'machinery.'

I have also enjoyed dabbling - I liked to call it studying - in electronics but, as my eyesight has faded somewhat, that the Braille method of soldering (i.e. by touch) just doesn't suit me!

Geoff

 

[tel]

Welcome Geoff, we won't hold all that stuff against you!

 

[Maryak]

Geoff,

Welcome to our forum. wEc1

Best Regards
Bob

 

[excalibus]

Hiya all. I am new to machining - done it in high school shop ohh so many years ago and have done some designing over the years, now I am in a position to be able to afford to buy the tools to try making some of my designs become a reality

I am a pratical minded person who, through specialised field work in the civil construction industry, has a very deeply ingrained regard for safety and making sure I go home at the end of the day in the same state I was at the start of the day lol...

I have been 'lurking' here for a few weeks now, reading various posts across the forums and I must say I commend Rick on a job well done with these forums... I have had my share of close calls and bear some scars from when I was younger and much less safety concious... One eye still bears the scars of a rust cut across it when I was 15 and doing something without proper PPE on... SAFETY GLASSES ARE A MUST!!! lol...

Anyway I thought I would say hello and introduce myself...

 

[b.lindsey]

Welcome excalibus. So what types of projects/designs are you interested in. Enjoy you time here and jump right in

Regards,
Bill

 

[Maryak]

excalibus,

Welcome to our forum. wEc1

Best Regards
Bob

 

[steamer]

Welcome!

Dave

 

[Tin Falcon]

excalibus welcome
Geoff welcome as well
,padraic never too young as long as you are safe to run the machines 16 not too young my son built his first engine at about 14. look here for basic info
http://www.homemodelenginemachinist.com/index.php?topic=9413.0
My sons engines yes the lego one runs on air.

Tin

 

[excalibus]

@ Bill
I enjoy designing all sorts of things to be honest, ranging from tooling to engines to guns really just a lot of different things, some things I design are just for the challenge and others are for a specific purpose - not trained in any formal design discipline or anything but do have an active mind and can visualise things, I have worked extensively in 3D modelling as a hobby and semi professionally in the past, both designing things as well as doing animations etc... lotsa fun lol...

Most of my working life has been spent in the civil construction industry, from operating the machines and fixing them to planning etc... The designing bug hit me in my early teens, designing an engine when I was 16 was fun...

@ Tin and the other people who have welcomed me and others here
Thankyou for your kind welcome

One is never too young or old to learn new skills, Padriac perhaps if you have some idea in your minds eye for an engine that would be a good place to start with designing the parts then making them
Learning to design I have found is often a trial an error process, with a lot of rubbing out and redoing areas of the project as you develop it, the best bit is, the errors you pick up as you design allows you to design better

Designing for how the item is going to built using the tools available is something I have had to learn over the years as in the past, I have only had the basics of tooling readily available to me... Makes for a lot of fun

 

[Tin Falcon]

IMHO one should build an engine or two from proven designs before venturing into a new realm.
that said. the above engines are my sons designs as well as his first builds and at this point his only builds.
the Lego one he just kind of figured out we probably did some math. the other one widget was bases on two ed warren designs Webster and Lucy.
Tin