Overview The tailstock turret is designed to allow up to six tailstock-mounted tools to be changed easily and rapidly, so is a great boon when…
Building the Prototype AMD Series Engines Crankshafts The blog is slightly out of sequence as I made the crankshafts for the single cylinder engines some…
Building the Prototype AMD Series Engines Valve Gear Progress has not been as fast as I would have liked in recent months. I have been…
Building the Prototype AMD Series Engines Cylinder Heads – Part 3 Work on the cylinder heads has continued over the last couple of months. Wow, there…
Building the Prototype AMD Series Engines Cylinder Heads – Part 2 Progress in the last month or so has focused on machining the detailed features…
Overview Any milling machine needs a comprehensive set of milling clamps, dogs, jacks and so on to enable work to be set up quickly and…
Overview A carriage multi-stop is designed to help turning operations by stopping the lathe carriage in a particular position – or, in this case, six independently…
Dividing – Tools and Techniques Introduction Welcome to the support page for my book ‘Dividing – Tools and Techniques’ by me, Alexander M du Pre…
Building the Prototype AMD Series Engines Cylinder Heads The blanks for the cylinder heads were all cut from the bar stock and machined square and…
Overview The Mk. II car is my latest car design. It will be a significant improvement over the Mk. I and draws together all the…
