The Home Machinist!

Many of the magazine articles (and almost all UK ones) mention Easyflo, which is a Johnson Matthey product. Their website http://www.jm-metaljoining.com/ has a lot of information, and specifications. As others have said, the "best" stuff is around 50% silver, which is unfortunately, the mo...

Alan, The lokie in your "bio photo" seems to have a suspension problem from the way it is jumping up and down. Have you thought of putting shock absorbers on the journal boxes?? Unka(This problem was very prevalent in the very early days of railroading when vertical cylinders were used. [...

Dont see it very often on this side of the pond.
We have restored most of them and got them running as tourist railways.

Need to have a good memory, and be over, well, a certain age, to remember when that was commonplace here.

Apart from the pounding (hammer blow) you also have a fore-and-aft component which can, in some cases, make for an uncomfortable ride for the passengers. Many British locomotives kept to inside cylinders in spite of the added maintainance because they had less problems with balencing and less sidewa...

For those who only look at the steam pages, I have just posted the pictures of the Rolls Royce Engine on the IC engine section.
Worth looking at, even if you are a steam enthusiast!

No, it isnt complete, although the only work still required is, apparently, the inlet pipes and some incidental bits. I would bet that these parts are virtually complete and that the finished, and working, model will be at the ME Exhibition at Sandown in December, where, i am certain, it will win an...

At the recent Midlands Model Engineering Exhibition was a superb model of the Rolls Royce Eagle engine. Thought some of you might like to see it. http://www.alanstepney.info/rreagle.jpg http://www.alanstepney.info/rreagle2.jpg http://www.alanstepney.info/rreagle3.jpg The builder, Barrington Hares, w...