hi there

[rabdouglas]

hi every body

My name is rab douglas and i live in scotland, i have been a member of this forum for about 9 months, i have only read the excellent artilcles and information on the forum, I thought it was about time i introduced myself. I served my time as a turner/miller  and was time served in 1983, I worked in various m/c shops in scotland then I moved to jersey in the channel islands for about 22 years but now i am back in scotland.I am now employed by Scottish Power as as mechanical Technician. I have a small workshop in my garden in which I have a myford super 7, a myford 10 and a small unimat 200db and a chester 20vs vertical mill, I am about to fit Dro's  to my super 7 and my mill just waiting for the parts to arrive, (some of the parts are out of order) my other project on the go is making a smallish press to use for broaching small keyways. My ultimate aim is to make model stationary steam engines, I have a facination with marine engines and one day would like to make a model of the waverly engines' any way enough about me, I would like to say again what a excellent, interesting and imformative this forum is I congratulate all the members for there helpfull and ingenious post

regards Rab

[steamboatmodel]

Welcome Rab,
We can certainly use someone who has had your amount of Machining experience. Do you have any engines done that you can post shots of? It sounds like you have a nice little shop set up.
Regards,
Gerald.

[rabdouglas]

hi Gerald

            I have not built any engines yet, i have purchased one or two from ebay and fix bits and bobs on them but the majority of the work was done by someone else. years ago when i worked in jersey i  used to strip down a beam engine once a year to machine and replace worn parts and build it back up as part of my job ,it was a fairly large model the fly wheel was eighteen inch dia, it was used to power a clock in the town center, as for machining  my work was mainly on big  lathes, mills and vertical borers, one of the lathes was a binns and berry with a five foot chuck and the bed was 6 meter long and the borers had 6 foot chucks, I think the heavest part i machined was a piston rod repair which was 14 inch diameter and the piston was about 3 feet dia the weight was 2 and a half ton,

[Oldsmokey]

Hi rabdouglas
welcome to the forum,