The Home Machinist!

The Tubes are clean, I brushed them every time I get done with it, The Stack is 12" tall, I have a fire poker that is made out of 1/4" round stock and that will not fit between the grates, so there is less that a 1/4 of an inch between the grates. I am guessing the grate bars are 1/16 of a...

I have a 1/4 scale Case 65 Traction Engine and I have just one heck of a time getting it to draft, What could it be, I think my blower line is to small to start with but could the bars for the grates be to close together. I was burning some nice dry hard maple flooring today and it still fires terri...

Thanks for the info, I did not win the auction, it brought $940, It probly was worth it, it was a very nice machine and I had never seen one before.

Is anyone familliar with one of these? I found one for sale and it kinda intrigues me. Looks to be american made, I can't find much info on the mill, I do know they made drill presses.

As far as I can tell it was built from castings by a private individual in the 1970's. I found it for sale after we got it from auction, on an expired for sale ad on the Discover Live Steam web site. I did a google search for 1/4 scale Case steam tractors for sale and it came up. We go it on the Mec...

Ordered my Oil from Green Velvet, I ordered 1 gallon of 320 cylinder oil and 1 gallon of 220 PB&J oil. Great service, my oil came withing a week of ordering it. Very nice to deal with on the phone. The cylinder oil works great in my 1/4 scale Case as does the PB&J oil.

If I am not mistaken, in 1 of Kozo's books it descries how to build a pressure gauge and tester, I just off hand don't remember which one.

After some research I feel the Green Velvet it what I am looking for and they have P.B.&J. oil also. I do agree, the name does sound kinda cool also. I still couldn't get their website to work for me to order so I gues I will call them on Monday, When I click on the PayPal link all I get is an e...

Has anyone tried to order from the Green Velvet Oil web Site? I could not get it to work for me.

Thanks all for the advice, it's much appreciated! Zach

I just aquired a Case 1/4 scale steam tractor. I would like to run this thing in the near future but need to get some steam cylinder oil, I was hoping that what I find will work in the Case and in my 3/4" scale Northern when I get that done. My question is this, where can I buy cylinder oil and...

I got done with work early last night so I decided to stretch my track pannels accross the basement floor and put the trex ties under it that I cut out last month and see what the results are. I am very satisfied. I know it's not to scale but it accomplished what I wanted to accomplish, "Portab...