After a turn on the railway and with the grandchildren coming for the weekend there's not much time for workshop stuff, but I'm inc...

 First job today was to drill a 5mm hole in the 2" end of the fledgling shaft to prepare for the trial fit on the rotary table. That do...

 Today I was pleased to make the last few cuts on the main 1 1/8" diameter part of the kickstart shaft. With carbide tooling, the right...

 You might be wondering what happened to the Model A kickstart shaft project: well, despite various distractions we are still making chips. ...

 Way back in the dim and distant, when I was rebuilding my SQ4 in fact, I had an incomplete set of engine bolts so the SQ4, like the FH year...