The Home Machinist!

There was a discussion here a while back about doing a 3D CAD model of a locomotive driver and the fillets on the model. My method is to make the 3D model without fillets and size a cutter for the fillet. I suppose the main reason for that is because my CAD software will not form a fillet between to...

I believe this task is like any other CNC work. A person must have an understanding of what can and cannot be done and that would include the tooling size and shape to do the machining - especially contouring. This digitizing software is setup for an objects size and the detail required which is the...

Electric impact wrench? Actually no I didn't consider electric... Air impacts seem more common and for the small size of this one I'm not so sure an electric one would work as well - but I don't know. Although I have an old Snap-On 1/2" electric impact that works great - another antique - recen...

Try Probeit - craftycnc.com - Probeit can be used w/o a license but limits the size of the surface to be digitized. $30.00 gives you an unlimited number of points. Download for free and use your digitizing probe for objects of any size or shape - external or internal with 'Probeit" as is... Loa...

I used 'SILVALOY' brazing alloy 50...what I have always kept for silver brazing. It looked OK when brazed as I remember. Used small oxyacetylene torch to braze the stainless steel hot end together. I may have completely overheated it with an alcohol burner I made to run Moriya. (I also may have over...

Thought I would try this... made two and they work better than I expected. Didn't cost too much since the "butterfly" air impact wrenches are currently on clearance at Harbor Freight ($18.95 ea). The aluminum frame parts (1/4 X 2" flat bar) were machined on the CNC for their contours ...

How will you power this locomotive? Looks like you need about a 2' long four cylinder engine...diesel! Like a Kohler 23 HP Diesel Engine With Electric Start KDW1003-1001 - it's 20.25" long but only three cylinders...

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Atlas 10 - 12 inch mica undercutter: fits in the cross slide V ways...

The displacer piston took the most thought and machine time. I used a piece of 1" OD 304 SS tubing intended for boat handrail tubing. Chucked it and bored it to size and parted it off to length. That was the most time consuming part of this entire project. The displacer piston ends were painsta...

This is an antique now ( just like me) which I built back when Dr. J. R. Senft first designed the Moriya. This was machined on a 6 inch Atlas lathe back about 1990. I used graphite for the piston and aviation fasteners to keep size up and footprint down. The hot end was originally silver soldered bu...

I had a flexible electrician; he put in the breaker box and I did the rest. When it was done, he took a glance and signed off on it. Later I added several 3-phase circuits to outbuildings, underground too. We have an old house and the electric installation isn't part of the registered construction ...

$11,000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I did my own. Might be up to local code... probably. They're not as strict here, for non-commercial properties at least. That is a scary number but it may have been a huge job, possibly in conduit and not knowing the size of the shop. I have wired six hom...