You often ask "How do you know all this stuff?". Well, the answer is easy. Hanging around with Jud and his friends for 40 years. He...

My wife was looking for a unique way to self serve deserts at her nephew's wedding next week. She saw some things on Amazon, ordered a...

Paul, AC2UQ sent me an interesting article about the translation from broadcast engineering to everything now being digital, on the...

I was looking around You Tube today and found a bit of my past. "The Animal"! A neighbor of mine in Cohoes had a pulling tractor known as...

Guy's friend Bob had a problem. A stripped thread. Helicoil to the rescue! They make stainless steel springs out of diamond shaped wire....

I came across a very interesting you tube video. This guy built a simple carburetor out of clear plastic, describes it's operation, and...

How often have you said this? How do you make a Round Tuit? All you need is a lathe with a radius cutter attachment! I found one on Ebay,...

Back about a decade ago, my neighborhood buddy from Cohoes, Ken, WB2TDG, got me involved in a group called Fulton's Followers. They were...

Some of you have expressed wonder at where I get my info from. Well, early in my career, I spent 15 years at the Watervliet Arsenal, just...

So, as many of you heard this morning, I made an emergency dentist visit. His cat scanner sounded like it had a cat wrapped up in the...

So, you are making a part on a lathe and the drawing shows a hole 0.137" deep. Your tailstock quill only has a ruler engraved in the top,...

The Beaufort Wind Force Scale is an extremely easy to use tool to assess weather conditions especially under field conditions.

The garden hose valve on the left is available at Home Depot. The Steam Valve on the right, NO WAY! The brass pieces in the rear are the...

Originally posted by Jim K2BHM. People have been asking about my Steam Engines that I have been talking about. pmmodelengines.com has...