The Home Machinist!

We drive up to Burlington, Wisconsin to occasionally pick up coal from these guys: https://www.centaurforge.com/Coal-Coke/products/277/

They have two locations, Burlington, and Austin, Texas.

Lot cheaper if you pick up.

Here is a place that sells Half Round Brass, but you would have to look thru the sizes they offer.

And, of course, their price may be too much;

https://www.riogrande.com/product/Jewel ... oft/130449

No, he is still in the process of lighting off the machine as far as I know.

It's too bad we live several thousand miles from Harold, (Onalaska, WA USA), you and I, I would imagine, would be eager to give him a hand.

Iron is something I tried many years ago, and found it was too difficult, plus the alloy could not be controlled. Harold, with his Induction Furnace is about the only amateur who could do it correctly. Here is a comment I made awhile back: http://www.chaski.org/homemachinist/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=98413

My brother recently came across the equipment being sold from the railroad of Mark Gregor of Henery, Illinois, that is the first I had heard of his death. I had corresponded by email with Mark for several years, and he would send me jpegs of his Central Illinois RR. I never got to visit, or talk, he...

I have a Milwaukee Metal Cutting saw that worked rather well when I was cutting up a lot of parts for the two American Bridge Company 1913 Turntables in 1.6" scale I constructed. That saw has a special chamber to collect HOT chunks of metal as they come off the saw; it's NOT sawdust! I also have a 1...

I probably posted this years ago, but here again is the last mill I acquired, I paid $500 for it. Took it apart for cleaning and repair, and the fact it weighed too much for me to handle as one unit. I may have paid $500 for it, but that new DRO cost me over 2 Grand; can't take it with me! The secon...

Here is the Obit for our "Big Dave":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Hospitality

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRNObtP_Fgo

GREAT RR SCENES!

Even some original Rail Fans!

Here are a lot more details: https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=0_ViXK2SEaaMjwSu66voAg&q=lake+shore+drive+beam&oq=Lake+Shore+&gs_l=psy-ab.1.1.0i131j0i3j0j0i3j0j0i10l5.3741.11912..15280...0.0..0.342.1790.1j8j1j1......0....1..gws-wiz.....0.ym1XViN48Ns Because I drive a pickup truck,(supposedly...

Yesterday a busy bridge approach over the Chicago River, on Lake Shore Drive, started to shear apart in two girders. Traffic is stopped in all the northbound lanes, until they can build a temporary structure to support it directly under the two shear cracks of the two girders. My problem, is why was...

The AFS just produced a new video called CAREERS IN METALCASTING. Here is their web page. Tho many of us are retired, or years into other careers, there may be a few youngsters here who will find this enlightening. Or, maybe you will wish you had had such a career? https://www.afsinc.org/careers-met...