The Home Machinist!

It has now had the edges zoomed with a quarter round end mill. The finished turret will be 4-1/2" long. This piece is 6-1/2" long, in the next two photos you will find out why.

Here are a few photos of a steam turret that you might like. In this photo we are milling flats on the sides of a piece of round stock that has had a 3/8" hole drilled through it.

Beautiful crank axle. It must be very busy between the frames with connecting rods and valve gear all squeezed in there. I look forward to seeing more of your work.
Jack

Thank you my friends. The Gazette is one of my favorite magazines.
Jack

A ball bearing assembly, unless it's some sort of self aligning bearing doesn't allow the flexibility needed. When you have a side frame such as in these photos you must allow them to move up and down independently. If you were to press a ball bearing assembly onto the end of the axle and then fit i...

Hi Jess Very nice tender trucks. Thank You for the complement. Half brasses are the way to go as far as flexibility is concerned. I see time and time again builders using ball bearing assemblies stuffed in a hole and wonder why their trucks won't stay on the track. Bad design! Concerning tender line...

Hi Andy
Very cool!! Those have to be the best boiler forming dies I have seen. Your boiler parts are looking fantastic!. Keep the updates coming.
Jack

Hi Mike Please post photos and descriptions. I can't think of a better way to stir people up and get them motivated. I think that sometimes when folks see a completed project they think "I could never do that". But this stuff aint' rocket science. When people see it broken down into little...

Last one for now. No shortage of stuff to do. Lots of little baloney to make. Brake rigging, valve gear, axle pump to figure out. I have some ideas concerning the axle pump. A problem that I have noted with many axle pumps is that they often have a very short connecting rod because it is squeezed in...

I just love the look of shiny steel.

3/4" scale

Now here we have something