We should have a thread on this board that has links to some of the many resource sites for learning about materials, machines and machining techniques, tips and tricks.
So, I'll start it off with one of my all-time favorites, from a fellow that used to be a regular with us in the much earlier Steam Forum World, though he disappeared from our fellowship some years ago, but who has created many wonderful projects, and shared them in a way that all could learn from. Some of the projects were steam engine builds, and some of them were for building accessories for our machine tools.
Having learned much from him my-own-self, and having successfully built from a couple of his tutorials, I will recommend Dean Williams and his website to you all:
http://www.deansphotographica.com/machining/projects/projects.html
Tubalcain on Youtube (mrpete222) is Lyle Peterson of Streator, Illinois. Retired shop teacher, still kicking and producing videos. He was one of the very first YouTubers that provided information on home shop techniques and has a tremendous catalog of videos.
Tubal Cain the author is the pseudonym of Tom Walshaw of England. He was a prolific writer of articles for the English magazine Model Engineer back in the seventies and eighties, many of which were compiled into books along with other new material. He died in 1998.
By the way, Dean is still with us as he's a moderator and posts regularly over at:
www.colemancollectorsforum.comOccasionally he'll make a piece for one of the lantern fellows.
Tubalcain on Youtube (mrpete222) is Lyle Peterson of Streator, Illinois. Retired shop teacher, still kicking and producing videos. He was one of the very first YouTubers that provided information on home shop techniques and has a tremendous catalog of videos.
Tubal Cain the author is the pseudonym of Tom Walshaw of England. He was a prolific writer of articles for the English magazine Model Engineer back in the seventies and eighties, many of which were compiled into books along with other new material. He died in 1998.
Good to know. Thanks for the clarification.
By the way, Dean is still with us as he's a moderator and posts regularly over at www.colemancollectorsforum.com
Occasionally he'll make a piece for one of the lantern fellows.
Yes, I was pretty sure he was still around, I just didn't know where he was hanging out these days. Thanks for updating me!
In any of these threads, if you are mentioning some source for anything related,
Please do include the link,
preferably as a separate stand-alone line, so that it can be easily seen and clicked on.
Thanks!!!
It seems that Bruce (St. Paul Steam) has been watching a machinist tech video series on YouTube called "blondihacks", so I checked it out myself and it seems very good based on the couple of episodes I watched.
Certainly, well worth linking here:
https://www.youtube.com/blondihacks
There is a Hobby-Machinist website that might be right up our alley for the info, materials, techniques and tools that our level of knowledge and skills needs. It looks like you can view it and read the posts but would need to join if you want to post and ask questions there, which is fairly typical.
Here's a link to the Hobby-Machinist:
https://www.hobby-machinist.com/
There is a Hobby-Machinist websie that might be right up our alley for the info, materials, techniques and tools that our level of knowledge and skills needs. It looks like you can view it and read the posts but would need to join if you want to post and ask questions there, which is fairly typical.
Here's a link to the Hobby-Machinist:
https://www.hobby-machinist.com/
I joined a couple of weeks ago, this one seems friendly and welcoming of "Asian" machines.
There is a Hobby-Machinist websie that might be right up our alley for the info, materials, techniques and tools that our level of knowledge and skills needs. It looks like you can view it and read the posts but would need to join if you want to post and ask questions there, which is fairly typical.
Here's a link to the Hobby-Machinist:
https://www.hobby-machinist.com/
I joined a couple of weeks ago, this one seems friendly and welcoming of "Asian" machines.
That's good to know Bruce, perhaps I should look around there some and think about doing the same.