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Well today I manage to finish tapping both top and bottom sets of securing bolts before making a fixture to cut the 16 or so bolts to same size. Once this was done it was over to the milling machine to firstly cut three slots before switching to the cutter to make the ‘T’ Slots. [...]

The design and build of a saw table progresses and this session covers the safety guard

Over the last couple of sessions I have made some progress on the saw table project. Today I completed the quadrant for the saw height adjustment and assembled all the parts to date. I decided that the next job would be to give the back plate a little ‘clean up’ and used a wire brush [...]

Today was another short session but at least it was a session! I continued to work on the handle assembly for the belt tensioning system.
After turning down the brass for the main part (it’s the nicest cutting brass I have ever used) the centre was centre drilled, drilled and tapped to suit the studding. [...]

Two projects under way at mikes-models.com being the Fowler A7 traction engine by MJ Engineering at 2″ scale and a home made, home designed carbide tipped saw table.

Nearly all the moving parts for the self designed saw table have now been made. Three pulleys with bearings are used. One for holding the gear to take drive of the electric motor. A second is used to hold two different sizes of carbide tipped saw blades and the third is a tensioner pulley to take up slack when adjusting the height for cutting

New carbide saw blade and diamond grindstone tool centre being designed and made to help with my model engineering. Follow the design and build on www.mikes-models.com