Books

John,

Thank you. I will check your first two suggestions but I'm sure that I have and am doing those. I was interested to read your third observation. My feed rate along the cut is not consistent as I do not have power feed. I have used both a four flute and ball nose end mills at high speed. Would the type of end mill have an impact on the end result?

Tom

Tubalcain on YouTube, while his videos are good, is not the same person as the author Tubal Cain, His construction books give very detailed instructions on machining the parts for his models. I learned a lot from him at the beginning.

Russell

Tom,

You are somewhat far for a weekend browse through by books me thinks

For a novice that engine would not look out of place on anyone's mantelpiece. Very very nice.

John beat me to it with regards to the score marks.

The only solution you now have is elbow grease and emery cloth.

One thing I forgot to include in my first post is DO make the GH Thomas tailstock die/tap holder or similar.

It was my second project and was in virtual constant use! That tool was a pleasure to use, and taught me what not to do when making all those die holders, hence my suggestion on a 'Scrap' bin. We all have them.

Geoff - Bl**dy treatment is a pain in the whatsit!

Edited By OuBallie on 15/03/2014 09:53:27

Tom

As to books ( your original query!) I strongly recommend "The Model Engineers Workshop Manual" by George Thomas. Firstly George was a superb writer (and engineer!) and, even if you never made one of his projects, you would learn a lot from his carefully written explanations. I see though that you have "upgraded" to a Myford S7. - even better George too had a S7 and his projects, whilst applicable to other lathes, are designed for the S7.

Many years ago I made his little rotary table . This has a dovetailed slot cut around its circumference ( not to difficult to imagine how to make this.) However it then has, of course, two dovetailed AND curved stops to slide in the slot! I'm sure there are many here who would say - " yep that's easy to do". It made my brain ache just trying to imagine it! He describes EXACTLY how to do this - and it worked a treat! The book is shown on amazon and I believe is published by TEE publishing.

Here is a photo

Cheers

Norman

hi tom, I have the two books by Philip duclos, you are more than welcome to borrow them if you want, I live near Peterhead cheers.

Hello Gary,

Sorry for the delay, I've had a few days off. Thank you for that offer. I've Googled Philip Duclos and I see that he has done some really nice work. How technical are these books? Remember, I'm a novice with limited experience when it comes to engineering.

I spoke to a chap from Peterhead about two months ago about Myford Super 7 and ML lathes. He had some Myford stuff in the Scot-Ads. Are you that chap.?

Regards

Tom

hi tom I am a novice at this grat hobby also, it isn't me who is selling the myford. the duclos books have very good instructions and drawings but I found the models to be a bit small and fiddly regards gary

Hi Tom,

I too am at the beginning of a very steep learning curve. I have just finished the "Simple Oscillating Engine" thanks to Steve's Workshop.

Now making a start on Tubal Cains "Polly" Vertical steam engine. Thats Tom Walshaw-Tubal Cain, not mr pete 222, who has also been a great help to me.

John

Edited By John Bromley on 18/03/2014 19:45:26

Hours of good reading and great ideas from Guy Lautard's Machinist's Bedside Reader series, from Camden.

Hello John,

I too completed Steve's Simple Oscillating Engine as pictured below. I found the plans very easy to follow with a fair amount of tolerance. Because I have a passion for restoring vintage stationary engines my attempt was given an exhaust. The fly wheel was secured by means of a tapered pin inserted through a step on the inside of the fly wheel.

Regards

Tom