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| Bernd:
All good suggestions gentlemen. I'd like to add that a scrafical plate between the faceplate and work with holes drilled in the proper place for clamps can help at times. That way you don't need three hands to hold the part, tighten the clamp and hold the nut on the end of the clamp. Also when it gets to the point of being very crowded with tooling the best bet would be to mount everything in a horizontal position. In other words take the faceplate off the machine. Place on a bench and mount the work and clamps. Ofcourse if it's to heavy this then will not be an option. Bernd |
| SPiN Racing:
Very very cool machine!!! Im reading this watching all the progress, and cant help but be astounded by the work of people who made the real thing in the last couple hundred years.. with Huge stinking chunks of iron, to make the beautiful monsters they were. I live in FLorida as you all my know.. and we dont have very much steam powered anything. BUT... when I was little in Ohio, around 5 or 6.. I remember seeing a steam show my parents took me to. This was likely around 1970 or 71. The machines there were astonishing. Giant.. GIANT steam tractors with huge bands of steel with steel spokes, and steel spikes for the wheels. SOme had double wheels front and rear.. some had single. Many of the larger ones looked like some cross breed of trains and tractors. Many were cloth belt driven things, with all sorts of spinning wheels and gear reductions I would assume. I also rode in a few steam trains when little, and still to this day cherish it. Very cool critter you are making there. Cant wait towatch the progress as she comes together. |
| Bernd:
Spin, What your talking about are called traction engines. They were the prelude to the gas or diesel driven tractors of today. They were made on machines just like the home model builder has except they are/were a number of times bigger. They did the same thing, remove metal were needed. Just do a google on "traction engines" (with the quotes). You should see about 2 down videos showing these monsters in action. Bernd |
| SPiN Racing:
That is exactly the ones I was thinking of. I have spent some time looking them over.. and thats what they were. Amazing to a kid.. and now STILL amazing. |
| bogstandard:
It is also amazing that they made them without the high tech machinery we have nowadays. Heat and hammers were their main tools, with very rudimentary machining facilities. They were craftsmen in those days. Bogs |
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