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ducksauz

Gratz on the throat sheet. That looks like it was a lot of fun to do.

Richard Gardiner

You sound really proud of the throat sheet! As you absolutely should. It's a hell of a project :-)

Christoph Moench-Tegeder

Ah, squirrels... they're not supposed to be inside the house ("pet"/"domestic animal" in german is a "Haustier" - a "house animal", and the obvious opposite would be "Draußentier" - "outside animal"). Also, Blondihacks, the channel where half of the content is in Lens videos ;)

Blondihacks

Unfortunately there isn't much choice for grain direction here because the forms use every surface of the wood. However I have made them different ways and it doesn't seem to matter a whole lot for this application.

Elaine Higgins

Hi Quinn, I don't know if mills have the same considerations as router bits. However, if they do, then you might want to think about the orientation of the wood grain on the formers. With a wood router, I would try to keep the bit spinning into the grain rather than opposite to avoid tearout. That requires routing from one edge to the center, and reversing the direction of the router from the other edge to center. I also noted that the grain direction for one formers was oriented at 90 degrees to the other and I was wondering about the reason for that. As a woodworker who has never machined anything, I could be concerned about nothing.

Justin Warren

See if a magnet sticks to the "copper" tubing?

Blondihacks

The short answer is, "offset the tailstock and cut it like a normal thread". It's not easy to do correctly though. The geometry of tapers is difficult to get right.

Blondihacks

Yep! I am indeed building the Pennsy Switcher, starting soon.

Piotr

Hi, if an appropriate moment comes up in one of your videos, can you comment on cutting tapered threads, including internal ones. Meanwhile I will go and bang my head on a brick wall somewhere. Ta.

Victor Miller

Oh boy that does look like a finger catcher. Please be careful ... and yes I am interested to see just how well it performs. Good luck.

Ed Silky

I have the larger, Eastwood, version of the 3in1 sheet metal tool. It's about 3' wide and weighs about 400lbs. I have it mounted on a heavy metal Uline assembly table. It works out really well. Since mine is larger, the roller ends up higher, which is the one thing that bothers me from time to time. It can be a challenge to do some rolls on a 2 by 2 foot piece of sheet metal that is at shoulder level, but that's the price paid for having all three tools in a single package. I'm sure you'll get a lot of use out of it in general, and especially on the engine project.

Richard Gardiner

New project == new tools! It's interesting it operates all 3 functions at once - please keep your fingers safe the when rolling.

Ron Gafron

I kinda got lost in the Lens videos as to what the boiler is for, and I thought I heard "locomotive" in there somewhere. Are you building the A3 Switcher from Hiraoka's book? I'm not surprised by the price of that brass. I was going to start work on a clock from some plans from Rite Time Publishing in the UK, but when I saw how much the brass would cost, I thought I'd try making one out of aluminum first, just work out all of the "stupid" before I spend the money on the brass. :-)