After about six weeks of turning metal, silver soldering, and more turning I finally have 8 beautiful wheels for my Shay Locomotive.  In the course of that time I had to learn how to do things use the lathe accurately, silver solder, bore, and ream.

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Building a real live steam engine has been a dream of mine since reading a book on the subject at the local library when I was about 12.  Shortly after I was cutting up road signs, lawn chairs, and anything that seemed to have the right shape pieces of metal.  Needless to say, without proper […]

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