The Home Machinist!

Hello Harold, My vote is to try hook up a Y delta starter first. We have a wide-belt sander these are a bit hard starting it has a y delta starter. The machine starts and runs on our 15Hp rotary converter on a 100A 220V line. I think you could also use a vector drive but thinking of having to buy on...

Hello All, Perhaps a better solution for lagging the boiler would be not to extend the lagging all the way around the bottom leave at least 2 inches of the bottom of the boiler without lagging the entire length then drill a few weep holes in the bottom of the lagging. Any standing water should drain...

Hello Glenn, You might look at the Clyshay plans they have a vertical boiler that supplies enough steam for a two cylinder engine about the same size a steam crane would use. Are you thinking of making it self powered also. Perhaps you could use a locomotive tender booster engine for that. There is ...

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Hello again. I just opened your photos and expanded them. Your set of cutters has etching on them one is labeled cutter and one is labeled limiter. The limiter is the cutter that should be installed in what seems the backwards direction The cutter body also has straight knives held in by wedges thes...

Hello again. I just opened your photos and expanded them. Your set of cutters has etching on them one is labeled cutter and one is labeled limiter. The limiter is the cutter that should be installed in what seems the backwards direction.. be safe...
Karel

Finally a subject I can help with.. A shaper is one of my Favourite machines in the factory.. If the cutter block were mine I would not use acid on it. A brass brush to remove the surface rust and a light oiling is all that is needed. To sharpen the cutters stoning them on their flat surface is all ...

Hello Bill, Congratulations on getting to the good part. You asked what to do for the ceiling. May I suggest a suspended ceiling like the ones used in offices. The difference is that you put it just under your roof trusses not at 8 feet. It will give you a high ceiling that will be cooler in summer ...

My sincerest condolences to Rose and Dave's family.
Karel

Hi Big Dave,
Hang in there I need to read more of your progress on your farm. You have been knocked down before and you have always gotten up this time I wish you get up running. I think most of us agree we could use a few hungred more pages added here by you.. All the best
Karel

Hello Tristan, Your shay will be really nice when you complete it considering the work you have already completed. An arch should give you some gains in fuel economy and I expect it would reduce cinder and ash accumulation in your tubes. Installing an arch would be a valid experiment. Male it remova...

Hello Friends, Here is a photo of Jeffry's wheels, cylinder cover, and valve chest patterns attached to their match plates. The snap flasks are standing behind them. I had the cylinders cast as loose patterns and I wanted to try and see how well these would work. I need to do a few more patterns and...