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| AdeV:
:bow: I aspire to be as good as you, Stew. I think it will take me many years. Beautiful work. Dean - Copper slip is a coppery grease which allegedly ensures that a screw once done up, can always be undone again at a later date; but, in my experience, it is most often used to glue spark plugs into car engines... |
| sbwhart:
Thanks for you kind comments Guys Dean as Adev said "copper slip" is a coppery grease I think it helps getting a seal by letting the threads slip over each other more easily so you get things tighter, and they can be undone again so I guess it must be like never seize. Thanks you all again Stew |
| Divided he ad:
Stew, :bow: :bugeye: :jaw: :clap: :thumbup: Top looker you got there. You're going to have a lot of fun when it's finished I'll bet? Copper slip/copper easy.... Gluing spark plugs in? Better than steel to aluminium without lube of any sort!! Usually over tightening causes the issues doesn't it? But now way :offtopic: Sorry Stew. Again, looks great and as Ade says "I think it will take me many years. " to get to the stage where that will be possible or at least have the patience required :med: Ralph. |
| Powder Keg:
I just read through this entire post. Super job!!! I would like to build a traction engine one day. Maybe as soon as I finish a couple projects I'll start on one? Thanks for posting pictures they are great!!! |
| sbwhart:
Thanks Wesley Seeing all the engines running round the track at the club Gala last week stiffened my resolve to crack on and get the engine finished, but before I do that I've got a few other jobs to complete. I've a liking for Traction Engines, and done quite a bit a research into building them, collected drawings for a few of the smaller 1" and 1 1/2" /ft, the biggest problem is having the machine capacity to make the large diameter rear wheels, and for the larger scales, 2" and above, builders seem to prefer steel boilers I think because the boiler supports the weight of the engine. Cheers Stew |
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