Milling
Flying cutting blobs
Earlier in the year, I bought some fly cutters at a model engineering exhibition. The intention was to tidy up some of the castings I’d made last year. The first issue was how to hold an irregular shaped piece whilst
Posted in: Casting, Milling
Materials: Aluminium
Tags: fly cutting
Stepperhead
The stepperhead is a sophisticated multi-mode machine made by Alan Jackson. In other words, it’s both a lathe and a milling machine but it can also perform some functions not available on either. The video below shows one of these
Posted in: Lathe, Machining, Milling
Tags: stepper motor
Terry Brown’s Shed – Casting, Maching, Projects and Gingery Shaper
Today I stumbled across a goldmine of information. Terry Brown’s shed stuff pages contain a large number of project he’s completed over the last 7 years. There’s a section on foundry work making furnaces and melting aluminium, this is complemented
Milling in the lathe
As mentioned in previous article about compound tables and cross vices, I’m interesting in milling to get better results than manual filing for my T-nuts. I realised that because of the small side of these nuts it would be possible
Metal sculpture in brass, mounted on an 1800s French Coin
