Thank you all for your welcome, i have been lurking around the forum for awhile reading the interesting posts and decided to join , i am interested in steam and sterling engines i have just purchased a sherline 4410 longbed lathe and a minimill belt drive with a 4" vertex rt and various tooling and i have just started to build a stuart turner 10v engine from castings for the first time i will post some pics of the progress as soon as i know how to , Ray