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No turning – so a long handled dustpan takes shape!

Long handled dustpan made from sheet metal and some metric studding…..

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Video on how to centre a bar in a 4 jaw chuck.

Video on how to centre a bar in a 4 jaw chuck.

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Special Alloy for the Seal pistons! Oh and some paint runs…….

Long handled dustpan finished and alloy bar cast from pistons for the Seal engines i am building. Follow the build on mikes-models.com

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No turning today – so a long handled dustpan takes shape!

Time taken out to make a tidy item…..a long handled dustpan!

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Another soul in Brixham – now there are two of us!

Other ways to make castings using drywall mixture over foam patterns

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Success – First melt of Aluminium in Home made furnace!

First aluminium ingot made during the test burn of my new made gas fired furnace.

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Gas fired furnace -work resumes at last

Gas fired aluminium melting furnace for the model engineer continues to be built and is nearing completion with the casting of the lid and manufacture of the hinge mechanism

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Seal Flywheel and turning mandrel makes some progress.

Whilst I made an error on this one flywheel for the Seal engine early on I decided to carry on and complete it to verify my methodology. A mandrel was made so the finishing cuts could be made between centres making a non ‘wobbling’ flywheel!

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Warco Band Saw for sale.

// My purchase of a Clarke bandsaw has meant my Warco bandsaw has to go. It has been a great servant to me and is still working fine. If it wasn’t for the fact I wanted a vertical cutting ability I should not have replaced it. Included in the sale are a couple of new [...]

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