DCT & Aaron Engineering Channel

03/09/2026

Milling a castle chess piece ♟️ part 2 of 2. Demonstrating more voodoo magic with the high school students today getting them interested in engineering and machining for their 2027 subject selection.

03/09/2026

Turning a castle chess piece ♟️ part 1 of 2. Demonstrating some voodoo magic with the high school students today getting them interested in engineering and machining for their 2027 subject selection.

29/08/2026

Making the rocker arm support towers for the SV-4 stroke engine build. Combining CNC machining(voodoo magic) with some old school manual machining (blood letting). Very happy with the finished parts. This would’ve been an ideal part for a “rotary axis” (A, 4th axis).

22/08/2026

Pre machining steel blocks to size.

12/08/2026

Getting funky yesterday running some steel parts in my Syil X7 CNC mill. That’s a Palbit 20mm carbide insert cutter. Very happy with the finish of Op1. Still need to cut the hat off.

11/08/2026

Pushing my little tool and cutter grinder a bit hard today. Back in the day I would have chastised our apprentice/s for doing this by saying, “it’s not a FKN milling machine”! 😜 comment below 👇

09/08/2026

My little combination milling machine copped a flogging over the weekend. Knocking out these steel standoffs for a project I’m working on. Running tooling from Livetools®

07/08/2026

In tonight’s video I’m machining some cast wheels for an OS 3.5” Live Steam Locomotive.

One of my viewers required help machining some new cast wheels for ...

26/07/2026

Some behind the scenes footage from last night’s YouTube video on making the feet 👣 for my Colchester Master 2500 lathe.

25/07/2026

Just finished 4 loco wheels for one of my viewers. These are for his Britannia model steam locomotive 🚂. OD is 63mm and running section dia is 57mm with a 2.5 degree taper.