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Hi Dale
I would like to see more pictures of how you made this engine. I have a few friends that are asking me if I can help make them a steam engine, and this one just heightened my interest as I...

I don't think it'll work as you hope. I've blasted plastic with glass beads, it removed paint and rubber marks, but left the machining marks. You could try sand, but it would inbed itself into the...

I found this Wafer prober at Boeing surplus the other day. It has all the components to be a 4 axis router. The small brass round table has vacuum hold down and A & Z movement. In testing, it has...

FWIW I don't like the lower die moving. I am used to the upper die coming down to the part. With the lower die moving, how are you going to keep your fingers out of the way and still hold your part...

I started in high school machine shop class, then got a job after school running a lathe doing second opp to a screw machine @ $1.65/ hr. Learned how to cut cams for the screw machines, then set up...

I have used them on some shop built routers for work. The one I just rebuilt had 4 years of useage, @ 50 hours a week. I didn't see any wear on the rails, or the bearings, but will be replacing the...

Great job!!

Randy
I will be posting pictures sometime in the next week. Router table is 4' x 5' x 12" Z. I was going to use one of Joe's kits, but I made the mistake of going by Boeing surplus, and found a...

Hi Randy
For most of what you want to do, 4 axis will work, 5 is overkill for right now.
The dies that I'm building for you could be made on a 3 axis with 5" of Z travel, but the fenders you want...

Alan
I agree with what you say, but when I use the head gasket for layout, I'm building a mockup that will be scanned and scaled up on the computer to cut the pattern's. It's easier to have a point...

Hi all
My name is Jeffrey, been looking for awhile to get some info to build my own 3-4axes router. I ran a machine shop for a few years, then left for a job building prototypes, and proof of...

I'll throw my 2c worth into this, as I am making a few repoductions of Riley heads.
You can use the head that you have to pull a mold from to learn the basic's of mold making. I was given a head to...