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Last autumn I gathered up the drawings, magazine articles and castings for a 1/4 scale Anzani 3-cylinder radial model (aka Y-type). The castings consisted of crankcase halves, rear cover, carburetor and intake pipe elbows. Everything else is bar stock. Yes, that includes the cylinders. They...

After being reminded of an excellent way to solve my "I never have the correct size handy" problem, I made my own set of BA and Imperial nut drivers. Thanks again for the inspiration to actually do this. Now I just need to do some tests to see if milling a flat on each handle and engraving the...

Now that I've been poking my nose in here more often I guess I better post something what I've actually accomplished in the shop recently. Just finished a model traction engine of the "Minnie" design in 1" size (i.e., 1" to the foot). It is a freelance design of no particular actual engine...

Hello everyone. I'm looking forward to "reading the mail" on this forum and becoming familiar with the interests and membership. I'm kept busy in my shop in the main with steam and internal combustion model engines. So far only single cylinder steam but have everything from hit and miss to a...