Sources, Support Pages And How-To's

Finally!! Categorized and Alphabetized...

Associations and Clubs

• The Florida Flywheelers site appears to have gone dark. Anyone got a new link??
  
• Gas Turbine Builders Assn
  
• Industrial Preservation Message Board
  
• Maytag Collectors Club
  
• Montreal Live Steamers
  
• The venerable Society of Model and Experimental Engineers
  
• The Southern California Home Shop Machinists
  
• The currently-defunct SBSMEEBBQ
  
• The currently-defunct SRSMEEBBQ

CNC, CAD and CAM

• Need work? Try: CAD-CAM Job Listings

Foundry Stuff

• Bronze Casters Homepage has gone dark; anyone got a recent link??

Machine Tool Sources, New & Used

• Bridgeport Machine Tools is now owned by Hardinge. Amazingly the price has actually gone down a bit...

Machine Tool Sources, Used

• Although he doesn't have a website you'd have to travel a looong way to find a nicer guy than Leigh Knudsen, aka catruckman@aol.com. He runs Mar Machine in Southern California and he has a great collection of used tools for sale. Contact info:
  Attn: Leigh Knudson
  c/o: Mar Machine
  719 Ohms Way Costa Mesa, CA 92627
  Ph: 949-645-7601
• Machinery Journal is a free monthly publication that has a compendium of used tool dealers in the United States. I found Leigh here...
• Punch Press News is the best I've found, but their website had changed and Google didn't help. Their twice-monthly print version is alphabetized according to type of machine you are looking for, too.
• Scott Logan's site Logan Actuator Co has links to used machine tool dealers.
• Surplus Direct WARNING: it's full of spammy pop-ups and wants to reset itself as your homepage. Aside from being dicks they have a useful portal.

Machining Techniques

• Article on Hydroforming
• James E. Harris Ornamental Turning Page
• Another Ornamental Turning Page

Projects for the Shop

• Me want content!! Please send links!!

Schools and Vocational Training

• McPherson College The only college I've heard of that offers a degree in Automotive Restoration (!!). You might want to contact Luke Chennell for further details.

Misc. Software & Search Engines

• American-British, British-American Dictionary This is incredibly useful
• Mechanical Power Transmission homepage and search engine
• Downloadable shareware: R/C Helper for Windows

Non-Traditional Machining Processes & Tools

• Dieco die-cutting homepage (loads slow and they want a password)
• Email address of the guy behind the T-Drill, a very neat tool of interest to boiler makers and others working with manifolds and headers

Support Pages and Fellow HSMs

• A guy who specialty is magneto repair
• David Wood's Steam Tractor Project
• American-British, British-American Dictionary
• Chris Heapy's Model Engineer Support Page has gone dark!! Anyone know if it's archived somewhere? It was very nicely laid out
• Frank's Place, aka the Antique Tractor Resource Page
• Good old Metal Web News
• Competitive Mold Maker Digital
• Delightful Machines has links to neat machines, including ball run sculpture stuff

Fasteners, Materials and Shop Supplies

• Newark, Inc. offers fiberglas sleeving insulation for steam lines
• Surplus Direct has buckets of pop-ups now, but is otherwise useful...
• Specialty Tool & Bolt has about every fastener on the planet and in quantities of less than 100, too. I've been doing business with this gang for 30 years..

Collectors and Other Links

• All gone dark!! Holler if you've got any links to pass along??

Books, Zines and Trade Publications

• Australian Model Engineer magazine
• Great old books can be had from Tee Publishing
• Camden Miniature Steam Services has a fat catalog with many titles of interest to model engineering enthusiasts