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I came across this video about making locomotives:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx6hmSclbRE

Some great quotes, teamwork and some great mos.

Once you've got the loco up and running here's...

Free to good home - if figured there might be some scrapers lurking on this thread :-)

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I've managed to pick up a Biax so I don't need my "Bunnix" scraper anymore. It comes with a holder...

Hello Phil,

I'm in London at the moment. I've sent you a PM.

Christian

A wheel from a large gate valve might do the job. It may be worth looking at gate valve suppliers. They may sell replacement handles.

Christian

Hello Ewan,

Give Suman metals ago. I got some 80 x 35 4E from them and had it delivery to Melbourne. They were pretty good to deal with.

Christian

G'Day Phil,

Ah yes, I think the pilot described it as the "russian tank of gantries". I was thinking of something less big boned... but i'll chase him up.

Christian

The ceiling height is around 2.4 - 2.7 so I don't have much to play with, particularly if I have to lift the mill. I want to make my gantry height adjustable so I can lower it to get it through the...

Hello Bryan,

I've done some research to make my own gantry but I haven't had time to put it all together to come up with a design.

Australian Standard AS 1418-1 (2002) [you can view it on the...

G'Day Ray,

I think our arrivals hall has a "no taking pictures" sign... they did have a life size picture of the largest crocodile in Australia. Try taking a picture on arrival to the USA and see...

Stu, Yes I'm scraping it, although the surface plate would make a nice stable stand :-). The other reason I wanted to stay away from an electric hoist is that I intend on making the gantry so I can...

I'm looking at buying a hoist (1 or 2 tonne) for the workshop and have been looking at chain hoists on ebay. I ruled out the electric ones as they only seemed to go to 800kg. The first task it will...

Phils, no problem if you want to meet up at my place before hand.

Christian

If you want to know the feeds and speeds to use for 1045 try downloading Gwizard.
GWizard: A CNC Machinist's Calculator for Feeds and Speeds

There's a 30 free trial which will give you some time...

G'Day Josh,

I agree stick with the genuine stuff.

I just picked up some replacement genuine Loc-Line bits from Tormach. I looked around locally and most places wanted around the $30 mark for a...

G'Day Ewan,

Yes it does some to have worked. There doesn't appear to be any "loose" oil that I can see floating in the sight glass of the tank. The coolant also seems pretty clean. I haven't...

Thanks Roger for organising the tour. As the others said it was a great day out.

I think Ray and Josh with their purchases are going to give the NMI a run for their money.

Need some more...

Eskimo, i think you'll find that the website "carrymasterau" is actually owned by the company I mentioned. The 1300 number is the same.

Christian

Hello Roger,

Thanks, i'll see you there.

Regard, Christian

Missed this thread. Any chance tagging along?

Christian

At $38.50 you'd be better off paying a little bit extra and getting some levelling castors, like these:
AUTO CFT

Some of them come with an M12 stud. At least you can then move the machine around....

John, i'd agree with what Bill said about the wheel it only there to lubricate the ways.

Bill, I'm not sure on the age of your SG. I've seen pictures of one other Macson with the "manufactured by...

Ewan, nice job on the solar panels. Its amazing what you can do with 3D rendering and photoshop to bring these "theoretical" projects to life ;-). BTW is that Felder green in the background?
On the...

Thanks for all the suggestions.

I was thinking of adding some sort of bitumen coating to the steel to add some extra protection especially at ground level due to that's where its going to cop...

G'Day Bevin,

Try Amazon.com for O1, aluminium or brass rod. That's where I've got mine from:
O1 Tool Steel Round Rod, Polished Finish, Precision Ground, Standard Tolerance, Metric, ASTM A681:...

G'Day Michael,

I think that if I get around to making a mark 2 of the heat exchanger i'd go for 3/8" coil and use a copper sheet to increase the heat transfer as you suggested. I know now to play...

Hello H,

Thanks for posting those. It looks like a nice nice workshop to have access to. I did like the superglued pencil.

How did you form the curved webs? Laminate them, bend them or turn...

Back in February member GZBMW posted a Macson Surface Grinder for sale:
https://www.woodworkforums.com/f223/macson-surface-grinder-166499/

One thing I noticed was that it still had the original...

G'Day Simon, Ewan and Stuart,

Yes some things take some experimentation. You don't know unless you try it out.

That 5degC figure is based on a flow rate of 2.5L/min. I got that with the garden...

Hello Wrongway,

I'm familiar with that page. The point of this design is that the water doesn't boil as it's on the outside of the stove. 20min and the stove itself hasn't even warmed up. The flue...

Hello

I'm want to insulate the edge of slab of an existing building. My idea is to insulate it with rigid polystyrene or polyurethane board the board would extend from near the bottom of the...

G'Day Stuart,

I updated the pictures.

I used plaster to increase the mass and to even out the heat between the coils. Others seemed to have used it for their systems. Being "pour-able" its easy...

I bought them from Blackwoods they were a few dollars cheaper than I could get them on line. They were around $32 for 100. More expensive than the normal ones but they last longer and are reusable.
...

At the manufacturing week expo they were giving out samples of black lightning nitrile gloves.
Disposable Gloves - Black Lightning KBS Workgear Gloves - Nitrile Disposable Gloves

I've tried them...

I'm always interested in ways to save energy. We have a solar hot water heater but in winter I have to run the boost a few times a week. We have a wood stove (an Australia made Thermalux (Wise...

Very nice job. Would you happen to have pictures of the patterns you used? It would be good to see the various stages of the build.

Christian

Hello Michael,

I checked but couldn't see anything. I'd have to remove the plug to see and I don't really feel like starting a thread "How I destroyed my Haimer by opening it" :-).

The probe...

G'Day Michael,

As Bob shows the dial rests at 0. Screwing in the tip doesn't tension the mechanism. There's no play even without the tip. There must be something else in the mechanism to tension...

Hello Michael and Bob,

I'm back from Norway. I didn't go to Germany this time. I got my Taster from Haimer in Germany. My mother in-law set up an account with them. They probably didn't have too...

Hello Piers,

It looks like a very handy setup. At 50mm thick you won't have to worry about distortion. Doing 77 holes in 50mm thick steel will take some patience although I reckon 50mm would be a...

Hello Ray,

I was near one of Hills regular pickup/deliver routes so they even picked up and delivered the floats. Given how fiddly the job was and that they picked up and delivered I was surprised...

Hello Bob,

It was good to have you over and hang out in the workshop. I reckon you should also post pictures of your "woodie" related stuff that you sent me. Pretty impressive also. Unfortunately...

Simon,

Have you looked into using an engineering plastic instead of bronze? i.e.
Metal Replacement | Solutions | Dotmar

I haven't used anything for bronze replacement but when I've needed...

Why limit to one colour? You might like to get a bit artistic and do a Banksy (Banksy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) on the side. It will be worth 100 times more then :-).

Coming back to...

G'Day Ray and Phil,

I should be there on Tuesday around 11.30am and lunch sounds good to me.

Christian

Tuesday is OK with me. Again I'm flexible with time as its only a trip across the bridge.

For parking there's a car park behind the DFO on the corner Montague and Munro streets which is quite a...

Hello Ray,

I don't have a particular day in mind. I'm pretty flexible with my time that week so if you have any preferences let me know.

Christian

Hello Michael,

Thanks for posting those photos. It hadn't twigged that the "special gear" was in the gear box and not part of the wobble drive. I think you're right one could probably use...

FYI National Manufacturing Week is on in Melbourne 7-10 May:

Suppliers and Companies Exhibiting at NMW

Last time I visited I was pretty impressed with some of the machine tools that they had up...

Nice job, seeing that aluminium framework on the ground looks like you're making up an old aeroplane.

Christian

das ist wirklich schön :-)

Christian