{"id":3235,"date":"2016-01-19T12:25:10","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T18:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thmsblog.com\/?p=3235"},"modified":"2021-10-19T13:15:43","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T18:15:43","slug":"engine-parts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/?p=3235","title":{"rendered":"Engine Parts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"lbp_primary\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSC06345.jpg\" rel=\"lbp_primary\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3234 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSC06345-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"DSC06345\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSC06345-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSC06345-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSC06345-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSC06345-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/DSC06345.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>What I have in my left hand is six pounds of&nbsp; brass engine parts. It doesn&#8217;t quite look like it yet but it will get there.&nbsp; I examined my brass stash for the A3 project and it wasn&#8217;t as complete as I thought it was. The stash is good but a few things had been &#8220;borrowed&#8221; and\/or are otherwise missing, or I didn&#8217;t figure materials as close as I could.<\/p>\n<p>Actually this is probably 300% more than I needed but with projects like this there are minimum amounts that can be ordered. That&#8217;s OK as it will all get used at some point in time. I often cut down stock on hand that is too large rather than make a special order for a tiny quantity. If I look close enough at certain stock I can see smaller parts hiding inside, that my tools help me cut out.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the nice thing about metal milling machines and metal lathes. Excess material is not much of an issue. The hard part is when you have to put some back on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What I have in my left hand is six pounds of&nbsp; brass engine parts. It doesn&#8217;t quite look like it yet but it will get there.&nbsp; I examined my brass stash for the A3 project and it wasn&#8217;t as complete as I thought it was. The stash is good but a few things had been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77778,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,1],"tags":[82,79],"class_list":["post-3235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-steam-2","category-uncategorized","tag-34-scale","tag-a3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/77778"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3235"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3810,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3235\/revisions\/3810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.thehobbyistmachineshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}