The Home Machinist!

Thanks Keith, I started doing the Locomotive in the scale on the drawing. Once I have finished with that, I will be scaling it up to the 7.25 inch gauge.

I was able to finish the rough cut of the wheels this weekend.....FYI they were cut on the Harbor Fright lathe and Milling machine LOL

Found the copper, https://www.onlinemetals.com/ Thank you for the kick in the right direction.

I have thought about it, However, this is my first ever live steamer, and I want it to be built to the spec on the drawing for scale. Maybe I am wrong, but if I compromise on the boiler size in my mind I will not be building as intended. I thought of rolling the tube in copper, but then there will b...

What makes the better boiler, Copper or Steel. Finding 3.5 dia copper pipe is not working out, I can find 3.5 dia steam pipe....thoughts?

Nice work

I always loved Locomotives, just never thought about building one from scratch. It is a wonderful thing to see something with great history come alive with your own two hands. The welding/ silver soldering of the boiler itself has me a little worried. Not enough that I wont do it, but worried nun th...

Everyone , thank you so much for your replies. I had to do a lot of rework on the Harbor Fright Tools to make them work well. I did not do anything on the locomotive this week, however I will post as I go. This Loco will be 27 Inch long and a track gauge of 2.5 ". Not very big, but plan on chan...

Awesome, I will be scaling up my build to this size .

Than you Frank, FYI all the machining is being done on the small lathe and milling machine from Harbor Fright. With some improvements such as gib work, auto feeds installed ETC.

Hi, I am new to this forum. I am building a Decauville 0-4-0 1:22.58 scale scratch from PDF files I found on the web. Just want to post my build as it goes, and chat with anyone willing to chat. The pic i have posted are where I am in the build. The frame has been powder coated with black matte and ...