Hi all,

I have just fulfilled a life long dream and bought a mini-lathe and mini-milling machine. This brings me full circle in that I started my working life as a marine fitter in the RAN and after 30 years of doing many other things I am back playing arounds with machining and fitting.

I have been building model stirling engines from tincans for the past 2 years and looking forward to building more precise models, and even hope to build a few steam engines.

It has been 30 years since I used a lathe or mill with any seriousnous and I have a lot of re-learning ahead of me. Looking foreward to sharing in the collective wisdom of this forum.