Better repairs than might be expected.

[David Powell]

Bewarem Some chains are so similar to each other that you may be ledup the garden path. North American #40 has a slightly different size of roller than...

[David Powell]

Hi, I only play with steam engines. I am disappointed if an engine does not perform well and will do a lot of work to improve the performance. Those I...

[David Powell]

Doozer, Lets cut the fellow some slack, not everyone , especially beginners and confused old men, come up with the correct names for things everytime,...

[David Powell]

Brian I fear we may have been looking at the same destination from very different points of view, that is we both want to build models, mine steam, yours...

[David Powell]

I hardly feel anonymous in the model engineering and live steam community.
I am a member of Toronto Society of Model Engineers, and well known to...

[David Powell]

I have had this happen a time or two in years gone by.
I do not know what causes it, but to try to avoid it I have taken to feeding the drills...

[David Powell]

I cannot spare a penny, I have to make each one of them buy me a dollars worth of fun.!
My main point is that there is lots of good machinery in...

[David Powell]

, Is it time to simply give up on this machine and buy something strong enough and reliable enough that you can actually enjoy using it without the worry...

[David Powell]

The gremlins got in my computer---- to continue the upper lever has 8 positions and the lower at least 3, maybe 4. So the gearbox should give at least...

[David Powell]

Hi, Well, your lathe has a train of gears from the mandrel to a gearbox in which the ratios are selected by two levers, the upper one w

[David Powell]

Adjust true chucks, or equivalent home made solutions are great tools for some applcations. If you are doing repitition work on items or material which...

[David Powell]

Bruno----- beware we are largely a gang of cranky ,opinionated, set in our ways old men.Sometimes our bark is worse than our bite.
We take great...

[David Powell]

For the last 7 years of my working career I was personal machinist for a self confessed ' Neat Freak"
Our shared workshop/office/drawing room...

[David Powell]

SHHH. Havent we, and all textbooks been telling folk that IF you want to hold things exactly on centre you use an independent 4 Jaw chuck and a dial gauge...

[David Powell]

I have a pretty good imagination, I am sure others can equal or surpass it. Surely a Home shop machinist enthuiast can envisage a tatty blue 3 ton offshore...

[David Powell]

I would not make a repair , of which I had the slightest doubt,in a critical component which, if it failed would cause damage or harm to me or another...

[David Powell]

Like many Home Shop Machinists I simply hate to discard or replace anything which is broken or broken down until I have thoroughly considered whether...

[David Powell]

When things were" normal" I used to attend steam shows and similar events in all sorts of places in Ontario. I noticed that" Farm Children"...

[David Powell]

Uncle Herbert was a building contractor. He employed an older bricklayer as needed.
This fellow would break bricks with his big trowel,not using...

[David Powell]

I was used as unpaid child labour, but only on weekends, primarily Saturdays. Mainly so Dad and his friends could sneak off to the nearest pub and have...