Hi ,looking good and do you have people producing castings for steam engines over there ??  Also you must have a lot of precision tools and machinery to choose from ...including all those Valorbe needle files etc etc

Willy

I am envious of your 'small workspace' (mine amounts to the just the right-hand side of yours with an 18" strip of floorspace next to it). I don't have room to sit down but frequently fall over the mountain of crap behind me. 

  It spins! Well done Chris. 

Your Midlands seems to make more sense than our 'Midwest' which is actually pretty far east!  The whole 'Midwest' is actually on the east side of the country.  Go figure...  The only thing NOT east about it is that it doesn't actually touch the Atlantic Ocean, so it's west of the original colonies.

Kim

Thanks guys!  Michael, yes its the size of the patent model, big enough to  work in actual use.