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sbwhart:
Hi Peter

Thanks for your kind comments and link to the brick supplier, I think they will be too small, the engine is 1/3 full size.

I've stripped the engine down and started to paint it, for the wall I,m planning to use chip board with scale bricks cut into it with a radius cutter I'll then paint the bricks different tones of orange and paint the pointing a dirty grey, I'm hopping that will look OK.

I'll post some pictures in a few days.

Shop time is a little scares at the moments as I've got my 86 year old father seriously ill in hospital.

Thanks again

Stew

sbwhart:
Slowly making a bit of progress.

Made a start on painting the engine up, got some cans of spray paint and acid etch primer for the none ferrous bits, and made a start masking parts up.

I also spent quite a bit of time rounding the sharp edges off, paint hate sharps corners it just pulls away from them, and giving stuff a good clean and a degrease in my ultrasonic cleaner, the bits that were too big to fit in it went in the dishwasher.

I used the milliput to fill the corners of the base in so that it would look like a casting.

The non ferrous parts were primed with acid etch using an air brush, this is nasty stuff so be sure to read and understand the instructions.

These are the bits sprayed up I'm going to leave them for a few days to harden off before I do anything to them.

Made a start on the stop valve' turned the body up and milled a flat to take the input flange with a small hole to line the flange up, turned the flange with a small boss to locate in the hole.

And silver soldered the two together.

Mill the flange to width locate on its centre drill the air way and the clamp holes.

The holes in the top and bottom have a different orientation, so the flange was used to get the orientation correct.

Her we have the body finished.

Stew

Stilldrillin:
Sweet! :thumbup:

David D

sbwhart:
Forgot to add the PDF drawings for the butterfly valve and the stop valve.

Drawing for the Governor will follow in a couple of days.

Stew

HS93:
Very nice Stew, I cannot wait to see it finnished, Dont forget you now a sand blasting facilety close to you, they even give you drinks while you use there machine, nice case it is in. have you been there latley?

peter :)

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