Thanks Benni you'll like this next bit :------------ I did

Eccentric strap:- I've had it in mind to make the strap silimar to an eccentric on an 1850 ish beam engine I saw in a museum, it was a lovely cast iron job with a delicate latice work of circles, this will be too small to do the cirlces but I fancied doing something in that flavaour.
First part the strap end, cut off a sliver of brass 5mm wide drilled an hole up the middle and mounted it on a mandrel in the rotary tabel, and generate the strap end out.

Then drill and tap M2.5

Split it in half bolt it back together and grip it in the self centering four jaw and bore it out.

I've spent ages thinking how to do the next part, I've had all sorts of complicated plans, in the end i decided to go the simplest way as i'm a bit of a simple bugger at heart.
So milled out a couple of 3*5mm wide strips of brass and with a big chunk for the other end to give me plant to machine to get it squared up after soldering.
Filed an angle on the end of the strips and butted them up against with a bit of flux and a few nuggets of silver solder, and a few weights to stop it moving:- and solder it together.

Onto the mill and sit the strips on a thin bit of strip and gripping the chunk mill the chunk up square to the strips.

Cut the strips up to length, and file a chamfer to but up against the strap end.
Then back on to the soldering hearth and solder

A couple of hours in the pickle, drill the cross hole and cut the slot

A bit of attension with files and it's not looking too bad.

Stew