Well I have recently obtained a set of Quorn castings and I am about to start building it, as its the building of "things" that I enjoy. I know I can free hand grind HSS lathe tools or just buy a new milling cutter but its the challenge that interests me.
Over the years the designers and builders of engines and kit that I grew up reading who now are no longer with us and I want to build a few things that they described in the ME.
For example, I have built many of GHT's workshop equipment and its very worthwhile and useful kit, I have made some engines and of tools described by the late great Tubal Cain, and I always wanted to build the Quorn to the design of prof Chaddock.
I did my apprenticeship in 1974 to 1978 and in the stores in the first year they had some ME magazines, and in one or two issues was the description of the Quorn…one day I thought, I want to make one of them! 45 years later I got the castings!…..as a 16 year old in 1974 perhaps that was the spark for me stay with Model Engineering for the rest of my life…
Regards to all