These web pages contain a bunch of personal stuff on the premice that there might be someone out there who can identify with an old doger like me. It also includes a section as a posting board for ex-apprentices from the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, Hants, England.
Two other pages are in planning; one relates to a model engineering venture called "Heilan Lassie", the other relates to a wonderfully flexible machine tool called an "Omniversal Milling Machine" by Browne and Sharpe.
The "Heilan Lassie" is a 4-6-2-and-tender locomotive to 3 1/2 inch scale designed by the prodigious "LBSC" and presented in the "Model Enginner" in the mid-1940's. This page presents the progress and process of extensively renovating (more-like rebuilding) an old version of this model, probably built in that same era.
The "B&S Omniversal" is a horizontal milling machine built in the early 1940's (my machine was still in its war-time paint job). Designed for making tapered-spiral-milling-cutters the machine is 'universal' in that the table can be rotated upto +/- 20 degrees(to match the spiral helix angle of the cutter), the knee can be rotate upto almost +/- 90 degrees in the plane of the machines arbor (to match the taper angle of the spiral cutter), and the knee is mounted on a separate set of horizontal slides (to move the cutter at a fixed depth under the machine's arbor). In addition to this angular flexibilty, the machine sports an integral verticle milling/drilling head assembly that can be moved +/- 180 degrees in two planes. All this plus a universal dividing head, a slotting head, power feeds on the table x and y, to the knee x feed, and to the universal dividing head makes this machine a model engineers delight! The features and several upgrades to this machine are discussed and described.
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