Member postings for Mark Smith 3

Thank you for looking into it. I managed to re-tell the gist of it and people are responding.

Mark

I agree, I haven't stabbed myself on my four way yet either, but as you said I too like the clearance it provides. That's what attracted me to it.

Mark

Thank you Michael I'll do that.

As to the boring bar problem Lammas says to make more than one. The other is upside down with respect to the first.

The gist of the post is I made a 3 way tool post from a design I found in a ME magazine No. 299 December 2020. It is a very good design as it doesn't have sharp bits pointing at the operator. Also I want to know if anyone else a has made one and what they think of it.

I would have liked to add a photo but I can't remember how.

It appears it has been deleted

The third one down seems to have the correct one. I'll check.

The third one down seems to have the correct one. I'll check.

Funny, as I said I don't know how that happened I only posted one.

Sorry I'm not sure how that happened.

Edited By Mark Smith 3 on 18/03/2017 01:14:10

No, not now, I chucked a lot it out in despair, but to be fair those early engines either did not work well or so poorly made I was a bit ashamed of them. I try to do much better work now.

I have a small mill and just learning how to drill accurately positioned holes in a cylinder flange. Real engineers will laugh as they would have learnt that very early on, but we have to start somewhere.

Hi All, it's been fiveyears since the Canterbury earth quakes and I am finally settled in a new(well, not new) home. My house was severly damaged and had to be rebuilt. My son decided to buy my rebuilt house and I have bought a 1970s house that suits me. but, to get to the point I now have a workshop again with an old but perfect Portass lathe, drill press, milling machine, and a metal cutting band saw...happy as.

As many of you know I built engines for my Grandsons and their cousin. But while testing the engine I built for my youngest Grandson I had a terrible accident. I thought the flame had gone out in the alcohol burner and refuelled it. As you know the alcahol flame is sometimes invisible and that happened to me. As I refuelled the whole thing ignited and seriously burnt my left hand, which took many weeks of healing. All is well now, but a lesson learnt.

As a result I withdrew the engines I had made to redesign them to run on Mamod fuel tablets instead. I designed a firebox that works well. I did not want the same thing to happen to one of them.

I look foreward to your comments or condemnation for my stupidity, but hopefully I can rejoin the thread with things I am up to.

Ian, now I am settled I would like to come out see you and catch up.

Edited By Mark Smith 3 on 27/06/2011 09:46:37

Edited By Mark Smith 3 on 26/04/2011 09:49:25