Dear Neil, I am happy that I was a kind of a trigger for M. Malcolm Leafe (MEW 294), page 48. My hole of 5 mm is square, because I made the cutter not off-hand, but using the grinding rest of another great man: Harold Hall, in conjunction with a Stevenson's Collet Block ER 25 from Arc Euro Trade (the square one). Thank you for your magazine, helping me so much in difficult times. Dear Neil, you may remember my ad. last September when I asked for unfinished projects that I could complete, (bored 90 year old/traction engines). I thought you might like to know the outcome. I had seven or eight replies from all over, three of which brought results. The ones that didn't were for traction engines beyond my budget. A pair of Stuart models were fun but familiar. The second was much more challenging, Anthony Mount's model of )ames Booth's Rectilinear engine which a model engineer had completed but given up trying to make run. It was, in1843, an intriguing concept but impractical in reality. It gave me some three months of frustration and a bit of redesigning before I finally got it to run and is now back with its owner. I have to admit I am pleased with that one. The third is a set of castings, unstarted, of a 2" scale model of a Ransomes traction engine, arriving tomorrow. That should stifle my boredom for a year or two. Thankyou for the ad. entry.
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