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NickG:
Nice idea with the rotary table, gives you a lot more control, finer feed  :thumbup:

sbwhart:
Cheers Guys

My lathe has quite a big throw, so I could get the rotary table under the chuck, it probably won't work with most lathes.

Stew

sbwhart:
Things slowed down on this over the last week what with visiting our son up in Glasgow, and i wasn't too happy how it was running far to sluggish, so I've spent a few days tinkering with it, the engine that is. Slowly chased the stickiness out of it final part was to make a new front cover, for some reason or other it was nipping the piston rod and slowing things up, so made a new one making sure, everything was correct, that did the trick its running great:- like one of Dave Stilldrilling orphans.

Also spent a bit of time drawing up the governor



Your probably thinking how the hell is he going to make that, well I've no bloody idea also  :scratch:

:lol:

But you don't know what you can do until you try.

First part the swiveling bit.

Rough out a chunk of brass bar.

Then form the domes, things were a bit tight so I had to finish off the back dome with a file and Mk 1 eye ball.



Looks ok

Tomorrow I'll start to mill it out.

Stew

saw:
I like your'e drawing, what program are you using? :scratch:

sbwhart:
Hi Bennie

I'm using autocad 2008

Stew

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