garden workshop

[scc]

Hello, As a recent new member I suppose i'd better show where all the swarf is made!  My "avatar" shows the outside, inside there is a 41/2 inch American Atlas lathe which replaced my totally worn out 61/2 inch colchester master. Behind is a Raglan mill.  On the bench is a "mini", bought because I could not make small pins,etc. on the old Colchester, but still quite useful. Further along is my drill and on the floor a home made power hacksaw. The shed is lined with 1 inch polystyrene sheets. I am building a couple of 4" scale Burrell traction engines which are way too big for my gear. Up to now I have muddled through. When they are done my set-up should be great for making some small steam or i.c.engines

[Dave Otto]

Looks like you have created a nice space for your tools and projects.
The last shot with a glimpse of the traction engine is just a teaser.

Dave 

[Steamer5]

Hi SCC,
 Looks like a fun place to play....err work! My dad has the same mill

Cheers Kerrin

[Don1966]

Every one creates his or her space to their liking and I can see you have made it comfortable for you. Nice setup and it would be nice to see more of that traction engine......

Don

[Nicolas]

Nice set up

The Raglan is a beautiful little Mill, I fell in love with that machine the first time I saw a photo of one, never seen one in person.

My dad has the same mill

I now have a very good reason to visit one day, I would have never thought that there would be one of those little Raglans in New Zealand.

[Kim]

Nice shop SCC.  You've got a lot of great equipment there. Looks like a fun place to play!
Kim

[b.lindsey]

Nice workspace scc. Thanks for giving is a tour of your shed!

Bill

[ReFlad]

Love the Hacksaw.  Is it possible to show more pictures of the other side?  Been wanting to build one like that for a while now. 

Ronald

[Roger B]

Looks a good set up    I would also like to see more pictures of your hacksaw (and the engines of course  )

[scc]

Cheers Lads,         Kerrin....... I like the work / play thing!    My daughters had the same idea on my shed door........

[scc]

Roger and Ronald,      The hacksaw was made from plans purchased from David Abbott.      Email:   myfordboy@gmail.com   or you can look on:    youtube.com/myfordboy         I modified to suit material that I had.  It was made quickly to work not look nice.   A useful tool.           Regards    Terry

[gerritv]

The hacksaw design is based on a Horace Kennedy patent: www.google.co.uk/patents/US2634175 .Very interesting concept. He envisioned a lot of uses for hex shafting.

[jadge]

The last shot with a glimpse of the traction engine is just a teaser.

Quite so - looks like it is darn near finished, and to a high standard - mine are still just a collection of unpainted parts.

Andrew

[scc]

Andrew, there is a lot to do yet. I still do not have a cylinder, it's too big for my mill so I have reluctantly farmed it out to Rexy     To keep my son updated I put a lot of pics on picasa. Unfortunately they do not stay in sequence and there are pics of both engines. Possibly a bit confusing. You could try to look:www.picasaweb.google.com/terry.bullard may get it. If it comes up click on the engine, there are over 100pics. When you see what I'm up to you will realise the high standard of your "few unpainted bits".               
terry

[Dave Otto]

That look nice Terry!

Can you tell me how you bucked all those rivets on the inside of the tank?

Dave