The Home Machinist!

Speaking of "Tilting at Windmills", I tried to do my own Ductile Iron at the school were I taught. They had an old Rotary Arc Furnace, but no way to accurately measure temperature, it was done by watching the Watt-Hour Meter, and calculating for the weight of Pig Iron at what input energy it should ...

Here I am in 1971 using a relatively new (1968) Bridgeport and a Bridgeport Boring Head to bore all four cylinders of a cast iron casting purchased from Little Engines for their 0-6-0. A DRO would have helped in locating each center, but there was no such thing in 1971, that I knew of; had to just c...

Look at this Google page.

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Here is a post that was put on the new Harrison Group that migrated from the ye olde Yahoo site that will die in a few weeks. I ran it by Harold to see what he thought before I posted, and it is below. My Harrison VS330TR has almost every kinda thread imaginable on it already, I would not need such ...

Here is an example of how not to ship. This came from Steam Age USA. Luckily, it was all heavy steel and there was no damage, but it came within inches off falling off its skid. That is the way I picked it up, it was insured, but I do not believe there was any information pasted on that boiler. DSCN...

When I did my wheel castings, in Lost Foam and from match plates, there were a few iron foundries still around. A steel foundry would have been out of the question for lots of technical reasons, tho I could have tried. Anyway as it turned out, I got those wheels poured for free because I had done th...

Here is an email I sent to many, it should be of interest to those of us that appreciate the life of such a man: I’m sorry to report the death of Don Angerhofer on 11 November 2019, at 90. Don was a founding (1948) member of the Illinois Tech Model Railroad Club; number one in seniority. Don was al...

One of the guys on Yahoo Brown & Sharpe said he would attempt to bring all the B&S stuff now on Yahoo over to Groups.io, so I gave him the permission to try. I have three mills and one surface grinder, and a large collection of B&S printed materials, I really do not need that information for my use....

I have done some ceramic shell, but they are all fairly large castings, were done in Lost Foam, and top gated. They were burned out in an oven for ceramics. The side rods came out ok in C99700, I gave up on iron several decades ago. The real size bell hanger is yet to be poured in A319, just haven't...

Google way back around 2003 also had Groups.

I posted the on their "Old Machinery" site the work of restoring my B&S #2 Mill.

A few years later, Google abandoned all the sites: POOF!

Looks like Yahoo is pulling the plug on all their groups. Apparently the Brown & Sharpe Group, which I'm a half owner, with all its reams of information will be a wisp of smoke! Again this demonstrates the ephemeral nature of the Internet, Websites, and the so called Cloud! I have no intention of do...

Here is the printed info from when I bought my Harrison VS330TR in 1994. It was one of the last ones, because they took too much time in production, and they were moving on to the Alpha series of computer controlled lathes. My lathe may have been built on the same line shown in the video, by then, 1...