The Home Machinist!

Ditto...at pressures 100's of times greater than seen on a loco

My wife has frequently accused me of not having perspective -> and computer graphics has confirmed it on more than one occasion. 🥴 There is a lot to be taken away from a basic design, drawing and layout class that used to be given to engineering students a half a century ago . Art students should al...

Sometimes the viewpoint and perspective get scrambled ..and the computer does exactly what you tell it to do.

Many of us whom have been there done that with Tich and Juliet models have benefitted from added weight between the frames in the form of blocks of lead. I seem to remember adding 4# of lead. Does not sound like much, but on a 25# loco. While you are making springs, a few that are 10-15% stiffer tha...

Nice job

good plan.....

GM 6V-71 diesel - had one where I worked first out of college on an unmanned barge, driving a water pump. ran a VERY WET STACK most of the time since it idled running only an air compressor..only used the pump 10% of the time. when we loaded it up with the pump and ran it hard for an hour -> would s...

Comstock-Friend wrote: ↑Mon Apr 22, 2024 11:00 pm I used to do the double flare on the steel gas lines going to the four single barrels on my '65 Corvair Corsa. Single flare leaked.

John

so the pressure on the gas feed to the Corvair carbs was so severe as to require a double flare. ?

cool....musta been a really quick Corvair

Ditto on the nice.

I think we have similar "almost too small to be useful" rotary tables.

The only nice thing about my small rotary table is that I can lift it.

A bit better description or a photo would help.

careful...you may loosen up dirt and have it float into the bearing areas.....

THAT'S cool....

we have an old tractor with a leaky shaft seal on the diesel injector pump....that dribbles into the lube oil sump.....

so I have learned to ask about that is not obvious....