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bounce, yer money order will get lost in the mail and yer dog won't come home. click on our "Contact Us" icon above for the quickest response to your questions. HOW TO MAKE A POWERED OXYACETYLENE GAS FLAME CUTTER HOW TO MAKE A POWERED OXYACETYLENE GAS FLAME CUTTER HOW TO MAKE A POWERED OXYACETYLENE GAS FLAME CUTTER HOW TO MAKE A POWERED OXYACETYLENE GAS FLAME CUTTER HOW TO MAKE A POWERED OXYACETYLENE GAS FLAME CUTTER If you're a model engineer or a machinist then The Home Shop Machinist is familiar to you. If not it should be. The Home Shop Machinist is a spinoff of Live Steam, the authority on machining and the like. This Featured Project from "Projects Five" is just one of the 54 articles you'll get with the book from the magazine "The Home Shop Machinist ". "The Home Shop Machinist" was launched in 1982 and was met with immediate success. .Most of us love to make things from scratch. And if we make a tool that will help us make other things, it's twice the fun. I had been used to cutting parts with an oxygen/acetylene torch and having to grind and file for a better finish, or using a band saw with its slow cut, or inside cutting and accompanying small radius problems. I had seen flame cutters (a cheap model was $250 to $500), so I put the making of one on my project list. This is what I came up with. Next was the drive and tracking mechanism. Fractional HP motors with very slow speed are easy to find, but the tracking is a trick. I spent some time with a magnetic tracker but could not get it to work well. The main problem was that the stylus was too small to have enough pull to hold onto the pattern. This left me with a friction stylus with manual assistance. Also it's much easier to make wooden patterns than metal ones. You're going to find entirely new articles published nowhere else but The Home Shop Machinist. You haven't seen the projects, but you probably know the names. Harold Mason, Philip Duclos, Robert Hedin, Guy Lautard, Bill Davidson, Bob Washburn, Ed Dubosky, Dick Torgerson, Steve Acker, and Deene Johnson just to name a few. Here each author introduces their helpful and fun projects. Accessories for a Rotary Table Some time back, I bought a rotary table kit from D & M Model Engineering of Western Springs, IL. The kit, model R.T.1 made by Model Engineering Services, is for a 7" table with a 90:1 worm drive. Although the instructions were sparse, the drawings were quite complete and the kit went together easily. The final product is an exceptionally well made and versatile table suitable for most rotary work. As with any new tool, however, I soon discovered that its usefulness could be greatly enhanced by a few accessories. I have a band saw and a vertical mill, and I recently purchased a small MIG welder, which is especially ideal for joining sheet metal. Using .072" steel (approximately 14 gage), I put a package together that's just as rigid as an iron casting; it costs very little and is less than half the weight of an iron casting. Plus some more projects involving techniques and making lathe accessories. Lathe Operations on a Vertical Mill Electric Discharge Machining (EDM) Confessions of a Junkyard Motor junkie Low Range Ohmmeters for Electric Motors Drilling Multiple Holes in Line Teeth for Rotary Cutting Tools Dial Indicators – Dial Test Indicators Density, Volume, Dimensions = Weight Out-of-the-Way Storage Where You Need It A Fixture Plate for a Lathe or Mill A Hand Operated Plastic Injection Molding Machine A small plastic injection molding machine can be a fascinating piece of equipment to own. A large variety of articles can be produced with such a machine, such as golf tees, bottle caps, pegboard markers, and much more. The plastic used for manufacturing these items can be obtained from discarded bleach, anti-freeze, and detergent bottles. A commercially available injection molding machine with the capacity to mold these items would cost in the neighborhood of $600 to $900. The machine described here can be built for about $50 if some scrap material is used. All work can be done on a lathe and drill press. A milling machine will make a few of the operations a little easier. Furthermore, a large variety of molds can be machined using nothing more than a drill press and lathe. If a milling machine is available, a much larger selection of molds can be made. The machine is easy to operate. Strips of plastic approximately 1/2" wide are cut from plastic bottles and inserted in the hole at the top of the machine where the plastic is heated and softened. After the plastic has softened sufficiently, the handle is pulled down, forcing the pliable plastic into the mold where it cools and hardens in the shape of the mold. You thought that was it? Here's more! The Rotary, Dual Cross-slide Drill Press and Milling Machine Table Surface Grinding on the Drill Press Making and Using a Bench Block Building the Universal Pillartool A Hand-operated Plastic Injection Molding Machine An Easily Built Free Pendulum Clock Toggle-link Operated Can Crusher Any one of these projects is worth the small cost of the book! If you're just learning about machining or you're an old pro this book has the information you need and it belongs in your head. Now's your chance to get ahead - don't miss it! 8-1/2 X 11" Hardcover, 200 pages, profusely illustrated with photographs and working drawings. Visit my MarketplaceAdvisor Gallery! Power Tools for Power Sellers! Phone: (***) 744-4449 M-F 9:00 to 4:00 Pacific Standard Time This item has been seen by alt people! 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