Plans, projects and How-to's for Home Machinists and Other Makers
This is a quick review of DeltaCAD, an inexpensive and easy-to-use 2D CAD program with a short learning curve. I highly recommend it, unless you need to design and draw complex parts or make 3D drawings. If you’ve been looking for a simple CAD program then invest a few minutes and take a look at this one. … Read the rest
These are Karl Townsend’s plans and construction notes for a zero fog mister. Even though they’ve been floating around the net since at least 2002 they aren’t that easy to find and I’ve heard it works really well. So I asked Karl for permission to republish them here. He says the original is still in use and he thinks at least one hundred people have made one. … Read the rest
This is another excellent article by Mikey, a frequent contributor to MachinistBlog.com and winner of our “Machining Metal as a Hobby” contest.
The Jet HVBS-56M, like most of its brethren, lacks a suitable table for vertical cutting. The OEM table is, in my opinion, unsafe for use in the hobby machine shop because of its extreme flexibility.… Read the rest
I enjoyed Cabin Fever so much that I made a trip last month to the Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation in Waltham, Massachusetts, to attend the New England Model Engineering Society’s 14th annual model engineering show.
The show was much smaller than Cabin Fever and there were no commercial vendors, but the exhibitors were very friendly and I really enjoyed it. … Read the rest