The Home Machinist!

A search of this discussion board will likely reveal the info you seek on variable frequency drives.
RussN

Yes Very nice! F units remain one of my favorite dismals.
I hope to share track with you and yours sometime.
RussN

Same here: Wishing you a good recovery.
Never fun to be of ill health.
RussN

Your mill is gravitationally challenged! Fine for equatorial regions.
And I'm sure others can see the photos the correct side up...
RussN

JB: Thanks for making sure I knew of the equivalence of kerosene and jet fuel. Greg:, Yes, that boat is a beautiful piece of mobile furniture. Cold molded laminated mahogany. It belongs in my living room... It started life as a Thistle sailboat: light weight, planing hull, and FAST. 15 knots under s...

OK, Greg. If you insist. It's a mid-1960s-built Blackstaffe/Wood steeple compound, and Blackstaffe mini 3-drum boiler. Rated 2 HP, but it's steam... First pic: Completed rebuild; Flywheel done 1 small.jpg 2nd pic: Waiting to test; StT Jess.JPG 3rd pic: The burner assembly with the Eccentric Engineer...

Thanks all for your input. I will start with diesel oil, and possibly change to cleaner kerosene if it seems appropriate. This burner is going in my freshly restored steam launch, which was originally a kerosene burner. Unfortunately the original burner got tossed along with most new plumbing by a "...

I purchased perhaps the last available steam atomized oil burner from Eccentric Engineer. Question: Which oil is it designed for? Kerosene, diesel, No. 2 stove oil, other? All? I am planning to use it with Diesel fuel, if OK. I have a PM in for Anthony of EE, but he's busy moving and I don't expect ...

Lots like something Harold V. would do!
Nice.
RussN

LOL !!
Naw. My shop is too new to have all that crap under any bench.

But Glenn's challenge is a great way to survive stressful times.
Creativity in many forms. I'll be watching.
Thanks, Glenn.
RussN

Let's build this one: Or not...
RussN

Thanks, Harold. High praise from you. It is not a totally scale construction. I am going for functionality and stand-off scale. Only a tiny few people will ever recognize that. Otherwise I would use rivets half the size, and at least three time as many. Not to mention all the tiny busted drills that...