I’ve been wanting to get some more exercise, and bicycle riding is ideal. I live in gorgeous Northern California where the weather is great most of the year and the scenery is fantastic. Just one little problem: my house is atop a very steep hill. Getting the...
The work required to control the mill spindle from Mach3 is not terribly hard, but there are a lot of details, so I’ve split it off to a different page to make it easier to follow this subsystem. Controller Board Selection Given the Smoothstepper and Geckos...
Philip Duclos was the originator of a number of fascinating projects for the home shop machinist, but I fell in love with his “Hula-hula” engine after seeing it in a couple of places. It is essentially a 6-cylinder radial engine consisting of 6 little...
I’ve wanted a small engine project for some time, having seen some Stuart Turner models up close and personal, as well as having looked at a number of pictures on various web sites. The question was which engine would be suitably interesting and pleasing when...
For those curious about using a program like Rhino3D, this is a quick walkthrough of how I changed my original steam port design to a fancier version. Instead of drilling at a steep angle to keep the ports near the end of the cylinder, I change the design to use a...
Elmer Verburg’s Reversible Open Column Steam Engine Team Build I’m participating in a Team Build of this little steam engine with a bunch of guys over on the HMEM board. I’ll document the progress here. A Team Build is where a group of guys get...
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