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After seeing some tiny square footage in other UK sheds here and on YouTube, it appears that you have the Downton Abbey of sheds.
I must have missed the heat treat oven.. Where is it?
Hi Jo, many thanks for the interesting photo tour of the revised workshop and annexe: - you have got a superb workshop full of glorious machines!, not to mention all the intriguing bits and pieces...
Hi Steve,How to move the big Colchester? On 1" dia metal rollers, then using a pry bar to bump it into place. The same technique will be used for the additions I am hoping to add shortly Hi Jo, I have found it easier to control moving heavy machinery by using the rollers lengthways and sliding the lathes along them .....as the point of contact between the round rod and flat lathe bottom is quite small there is very little resistance......in metric as well as imperial !!Willbert
Quote from: Chipswitheverything on May 30, 2016, 01:12:52 PMHi Jo, many thanks for the interesting photo tour of the revised workshop and annexe: - you have got a superb workshop full of glorious machines!, not to mention all the intriguing bits and pieces...There is many years of acquisitions and hoarding there . There was one chap had a old mansion with more reception rooms than you could shake a stick at. I heard that he turned the Ballroom into his workshop, with the larger tools like the Bridgeport bolted through the Parquet floor Jo
Quote from: SteamerQuote from: G_N_R Hi JoWhat a wonderful workshop you have. Usually modellers start very young in a workshop of a relative or a friend and develop from there. So Jo where did your interest in model engineering originate? Yes I think curiosity is rampant in this regard.... DaveWhere did my interest start? Well as a toddler I showed more interest in "diggers" than dolls. I Finally convinced my parents to buy me mechanio at 14 (just what a teenage girl should want for Xmas!). At 16 I started an electrical engineering apprenticeship which for the first year included two weeks machine shop studies, which was the first time I had ever used a lathe: It did not inspire me..... At 23 I was invited to a friend's house where his father had a workshop which included a lathe and he was making a 7 1/4" locomotive. It had never dawned on me that one could own a lathe at home. (My friend was clearly not impressed that I was showing more interest in his father's workshop than I was in him, so I was never invited back). Within a week I have spotted an advert for my Myford lathe which I immediately purchased and subsequently found that one of the other engineers at work had the cylinder off of a 2" traction engine on his desk and enquired further, that led to finding my first model engineering club. I picked up a Stuart 10V at the White Elephant sale and that was the first thing I built. Over the years I have slowly began to learn how to use the lathe and various machine tools and make more and more swarf. And sometimes even bits of the odd engine! Jo- - - -(I had not mentioned the Clayton or any of my part built Locomotives as they are not actually model "Engines".)
Quote from: G_N_R Hi JoWhat a wonderful workshop you have. Usually modellers start very young in a workshop of a relative or a friend and develop from there. So Jo where did your interest in model engineering originate? Yes I think curiosity is rampant in this regard.... Dave
Hi JoWhat a wonderful workshop you have. Usually modellers start very young in a workshop of a relative or a friend and develop from there. So Jo where did your interest in model engineering originate?