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John & Wayne

You might want to give the following link a look. I goes back a mighty long time to an excellent tutorial by an excellent hobby machinist, who we haven't seen now in quite a long time. But back in the day Dean Williams was a regular contributor to the steam community, and his building of a PMR #7 from castings is a classic!  As I recall, he built it for another member of the group, many a year ago. Fortunately, his webpage is still up, so we can reference some of his wonderful material.

Here he is now:

http://www.deansphotographica.com/machining/jobs/pmr7/pmr7.html