• Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!

Recent content by Dalboy

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    Rob Roy loco

    While waiting for some HSS tools to complete the cross head I thought I would finish the coupling rods which I started ages ago but stopped because I needed to sort out how I was going to proceed. Now that I have done more machining on other parts, I felt comfortable to get them finished. How I...
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    Knife making

    I run this one, but for knife making it would be best used hand held as it comes off of the stand. There is a light as well as being variable speed. I have cut 4" round Ali bar as well as a lump of steel which was 3" X 4 1/2" yes these were done on the stand as in the picture. The only...
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    What size and type of screwdriver/spanner do I need

    Is it like these spline socket set
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    Grinding wheel blotters

    Looking at the picture of the flange is the white patches old paper blotter stuck to it if so then make sure it is fully cleaned off as that may cause a very slight wobble as well as not give a correct reading when measuring. Also make sure the outer edge is also clean
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    Rob Roy loco

    Got back onto the cylinders of the Rob Roy as I stuffed up some measurements on the first set. Put in the mill vice and all I have achieved is to rough out some surfaces so that I have some reference flats to work from. They are still oversize at this stage but have got one squared up ready...
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    Rob Roy loco

    I know, I will get to doing it when I can afford three AA batteries as that is all it needs to run it :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO: Seriously I will get around to it. Trying to do a little tidy up in the garden for winter. I have also started the cylinders for the loco. The first set of castings...
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    Rob Roy loco

    Awaiting some more metal for it I still need to run the farm boy at the moment it is in a display case. At the wife's request so it makes it easier to dust and not break anything on it.
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    Rob Roy loco

    Guess what, I have returned to this build of a Steam loco Rob Roy. Just started making some of the many linkages. I will update as more are made. As you can see, I have labelled them so as not to mix up parts and names for when I start to assemble them
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    Farm Boy Hit and Miss engine

    Thank you guys and yes I will make a video once I get it running.
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    Farm Boy Hit and Miss engine

    All the machine work completed, the only thing left is to run it when the fuel pipe arrives. I managed to find a display case and now it has a home, the wife thought it would be better so it does not collect dust. The display case comes flat packed along with some cotton gloves to assemble...
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    C5 collet back plate

    Finished the backplate for the 5C collet chuck, managed to get it within 0.0005″ (don’t ask me how but pleased with that) The lathe spindle has a “0” mark on it so i also marked the backplate to make sure I fit it the same every time
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    C5 collet back plate

    A little while ago I started to make a back plate for C5 chuck. Started by making some studsI got fed up with moving one set to the ER32 chuck and as I needed to make a backplate for a 5c chuck which also needed a set of studs. All the studs and the partially machined backplate Holes being...
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    Farm Boy Hit and Miss engine

    Have a look HERE for the work in progress of the loco as can be seen no work since 2023
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    Farm Boy Hit and Miss engine

    I already have another project on the go to keep me going for the time being and that is a Rob Roy loco. I need to finish this first before returning to that build.
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    Farm Boy Hit and Miss engine

    Back onto the Farm Boy engine, this time the wiring for the ignition. I am going to add a switch to the outer surface of the base for easy access. Having to keep the sensor wire away from the spark plug wires, I made some small pieces of brass tube and glued these in place around one edge. The...
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