Grease Steam and Rust Association (USA)
The Grease Steam and Rust Association aims to “preserve agricultural history for future generations” They do this by restoring old machines, displaying agricultural equipment, putting enthusiasts in contact with each other and running an annual fair each October. The show
Posted in: Steam
Tags: Agriculture, grease, rust
Bezel making
The latest mini project is the making of a doughnut shaped ring in 3mm sheet aluminium. The inner diameter is 54mm and the outer diameter is 70mm. The outer edge needs to be rounded off. The part is to act
Posted in: Bezel, Lathe, Machining, Trepanning, Work Holding
Materials: Aluminium
Tags: boring
Happy Birthday SMEE!
Happy 110th Birthday to The Society of Model and Experimental Engineers. Why not go and visit them at the Kew Bridge Steam Museum Festival of Models and give your congratulations in person?
Posted in: Uncategorised
Tags: Kew Bridge Steam Museum, SMEE, Society of Model and Experimental Engineers
Cross Vice vs Compound Table
Since starting on the T-Nuts, I’ve been thinking of better ways to make these. My main issues are the time it takes to do the filing and that it’s difficult to get the nut exactly square and to the right
Posted in: Uncategorised
Tags: Compound Table, Cross Vice, Milling Table
Broaching
Broaching is a technique for turning a round hole into a square hole or a hex hole or for adding a keyway into a hole. A broach is a toothed tool that looks a bit like a rack or coarse
Posted in: Uncategorised
Tags: broaching, square holes
Mashprom-2008
8th International exhibition «Mashprom-2008» for machine-building, metal-working and industrial equipment. The exhibition takes place 7-10th, October 2008, in the Expo-center «Meteor», Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine
Posted in: Exhibition
Tags: Mashprom, Ukraine
Filing Nuts
I was lucky enough to visit the Model Engineer Exhibition at Ascot over the weekend and managed to attend one of the lectures by the chaps in the blue coats from the Society of Model and Experimental Engineers. The talk
Posted in: Projects, T-Nuts
Tags: Filing, Model Engineer Exhibition
Cable Car Workshop
It takes a lot of hard work and skill to run the San Francisco Cable Cars and just as much to keep them maintained. You can’t just walk into Joe’s Autos and pick up spares, they have to be made
Posted in: Uncategorised
Tags: Cablecar, San Francisco, Workshop
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Metal sculpture in brass, mounted on an 1800s French Coin
