The Home Machinist!

I need to do a couple of small updates on Sunday (3/20). This might have the system up and down oddly.
I will do my best to minimize the disruption, but please be patient if you run into it.
Thank you!
-Mike

Wow! Very nice!!

Hello Everybody!
Happy New Year!!

I wanted to say thank you to everybody for participating and supporting the Chaski Home Machinist!

Thank you, everybody! Let us hope for a year of good projects and good health!
-Mike

The "wayback machine" seems to have one old copy, but pictures don't show up.
https://archive.org/web/
Here is what I found:
https://web.archive.org/web/20050228174 ... ./falk.htm

Once again, the help is really appreciated!
-Mike

Just a warning.
I don't expect the board to be down for much time, but I will be doing odd maintenance on Thursday and Friday.
You might see a hiccup here and there.
I will do my best to minimize those!
-Mike

An excellent source of information on this scale is the British National 2 1/2" gauge society.
http://www.n25ga.org/
They have many resources available.
I have bought many of their construction booklets.
They are very fun to read even if one does not have time to build!

I have been trying to see what else might work. Microsoft suggests using Onenote. They have some info here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/insert-notes-from-the-web-into-onenote-773ef534-7a3a-40d7-8c39-b3f953d46f1e I have not had a chance to try it, so not sure how well it works. It also...

** SOLD **
My friend has found one more item in his fathers collection.
A Mamod RS1 Steam Railway Set.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/233672722247

-Mike

Chris, I bet it can't be used for turning...I see a comment on the web wishing for "Estlcam turn." I am not experience with other tools...but for me, for the milling, it is super intuitive. (It could be that I am just nuts too!) The nice thing is that it is free to try. It is actually free...

I really like Estlcam, for a low-cost cam tool. https://estlcam.de/ However Like Russ mentions, a virtual machine might not be a bad idea. You could try spending $25.00 or so on Windows XP from Ebay and then install virtual box on your new pc. (which is free) (Or do you have your old Windows XP inst...

I am not even sure of the right terms here, but was wondering how much bigger my pattern has to be for casing ZA8?
I have heard somewhere 2% bigger to handle shrinkage during the casting process, but I can't find that number anywhere now.
Has anybody experience with ZA8?
Thank you,
Mike