Thread: New old lathe

Went to Lynfield College (west Auckland back then),
Did Engineering (metalwork - prac and theory).
My cobber and I got really excited about model pulse jet engines (V1 bomb engines).
Built one in Metalwork, filled the tank with a mix of meths and turps.
Fired it up by blasting oxyacetylene flame through it.
Was supposed to be held static, by an engineers vice.
It took a month of detentions to compensate for the hole in the workshop roof, and complaints from a couple of Blitz survivors (who recognized the sound of the jet) plus a few strokes of the flexibamboo.
Never did find the vice or engine either - despite the aerodynamics being similar to a lead balloon.