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Not the fuel tank greg, the engine cases :rotf

Paul, i have the brass vice it came from inncraftsman, now called MYLXOM at about the same price and of course i have the little block clamp vice. when i was toolmaking we used Zeus tables that came in a flip book style with plastic pages so the they didnt go soggy with cooling fluids on the...

I would love to comment Ski .....but i am currently speechless. :rotf ......... fantastic job

Any idea what this colour is on the engine cases. I come across it a lot on bikes and cars, it looks like a king of graphite maybe ?? Often see it on raw dark alloy castings like gearboxes.

Hi from the UK :)

It certainly helped when i built my Lancaster :rotf

2 wheels on my wagon......no sign of Cherokees :-)

Love what you are doing here Greg, I could really get into this :-)

~Look out, a fox :-)

I dont have anything from that time of my life as mum and dad separated when i was 15 and mum and i left the house and took nothing with us. i had a look on google but the house is too far back off the road for street view. today i am going to a village where most of the houses are Tudor so 500...

Its a personal thing , you are either happy with something or not. the only saving grace here is the model is as rare as hens teeth so it deserves to be finished. i wont find another at an affordable price. I am going to build the front wheel and take it from there :-)

Yesterday i tried to build a wheel :) having scraped 2 resin rims and 7 hours i gave up. Shame because i had to destroy the kit wheels to get the wheel hubs to fit to the new rims. Upshot was i have a very rare Protar model without wheels.... My problem is the wheel have very large dia hubs and...

I grew up in a house built in 1580 :-) obviously oak Timber framed and as a school project i measured the whole thing up, transferred it to graph paper and built a 3D model of the frame in Balsa :) It was quite interesting because i did some research on the house also as part of the project. A...

I think they went over to brown in late 1942 as it showed up better in the snow.

Ahh Brown Ceramic.. We dont have Brown or White ceramic any more, in the UK we have diverse ceramic or just colored. :rotf

Best i can do :rotf these are half mm graduations

I once ordered some cockpit placards and they didnt arrive and of course as soon as they sent some more the first lot tuned up so i returned them and the address was a private house in brighton i think, on the coast about 35 miles away. i Since found out that fantasy print shop print his decals...

Yea i remember trying to learn a CAD program for CNC programming years ago and thinking then i am too old and its the death of skilled engineering. Once you have the program any idiot can push the start button... :cool:

I wonder who is making it for them ?

Basically they are leading link forks. the wheel rocks against a damper/spring on the bottom of the forks instead of the forks travelling up and down. Advantage is the forks are rigid so much stronger, the set up is lighter. Maybe not as good on sharp corners where the bike leans over so you...