Plans, projects and How-to's for Home Machinists and Other Makers
This is a brief demonstration of the “Jingle Bell Steam Engine” that Nathan Woodruff made. It’s based on free plans provided by Professor Nial McCabe, who teaches Engineering Technology at the County College of Morris in Randolph, NJ. … Read the rest
On his blog featuring model engineering projects, Adam Richard Cooper has intricately detailed plans for making a Model Watt governor–the part that regulates the speed of steam engines by acting as a negative feedback system–that he designed himself. His post includes construction notes and CAD drawings along with a large photograph of the completed governor.… Read the rest
MachinistBlog.com is pleased to announce our support for Copenhagen Suborbitals, a small non-profit suborbital space endeavor led by two guys with big brass ones. If they are successful Denmark will become the world’s fourth nation to launch a man into space, after Russia, the United States and China. In addition to wishing them well we have donated $10 to help their efforts 🙂
Seriously, I think what Kristian von Bengtson, Peter Madsen and their small group has accomplished is pretty impressive, especially on a budget that is considerably less than $100,000.… Read the rest
Even though YouTube seems to have umpteen million videos about machining I’ve found very few that will you show how to grind HSS bits for a metal lathe. And most of them show it being done on special grinders or with the help of jigs and accessories that most of us don’t have. … Read the rest
