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spuddevans:
Hi there and Welcome to the cube :borg: :wave:
Tim
DaveH:
Hi :wave:
Hello and welcome to MadModder :)
:beer:
DaveH
Divided he ad:
Hi Lester (that's what I'll call you I think!)
As said, Welcome to the collective :borg: :wave:
--- Quote ---I definitely aspire to make my own steam engine someday but it feels a long way off.
--- End quote ---
Exactly the way I viewed things when I got my lathe 4/5ish years back. I'll certainly say I'm no where near a "proper" steam engine. But I have made a mini static one and a treadle/finger engine. Then spent many hours fiddling with various keyrings and gadgets.... Cause I find them fun!
The best bits of advice (health and safety aside) I got when starting out were, in no particular order:
One piece at a time.... Take a possibly daunting plan, split it up and just concentrate on one little part at a time.....
Try to machine it in your mind first, work out how you're going to hold it for each operation....
And
If the cylinder turns out 0.3mm too large then make the piston 0.3mm larger to fit it! It's hard to be bang on every time!
The third one goes for many parts. Not just cylinders and pistons. The main thing is you have the tooling to make the part to fit the other one.
I'm not a machinist by design either... But I do have fun :)
Don't be shy, post pic's of what you're up to and ask whatever questions you have..... We're always happy to see progress pictures (I've still got some stalled/unfinished from a few years ago :palm: ) and Someone will always help you if they can :thumbup:
Power saw.... That'll wake the household too! I used a "me" powered hacksaw for years, takes quite a while to cut through 55mm of hardened steel bar.... Even with the power chopsaw I have. I still use the hacksaw a lot of the time!
Ralph.
PekkaNF:
Wellcome!
Just use good hacksaw and good hacksaw blade. I have pretty heavy bacho hacksaw and I use Sandvik blades. Just make sure your piece is clampped well and choce saw balde that has least three tooths in contact - even on the thinnest section. Then again use most coarse that satisfies this need. Never saw on the lathe (just too much trouble really....) just get clamp/vice right height on relation of your body and it will come out eaaasyyy.
Pekka
lesterhawksby:
I don't think I made any sense with the power sawing thing :scratch: I assume a saw that eats volts would make more noise than the one that just burns elbow grease, rather than less - but the only daytime sessions I get are very short, so if I could go faster, I'd be much more likely to get my stock chopped up in time so I can turn it at night. (the hum of the lathe at lower RPM is apparently "soothing" - certainly the sound can make it through the walls but the baby seems to sleep happily through it)
I have a 12" hand hacksaw that usually lives with a fairly coarse blade and a 6" that I only ever fit with a fine one. I can get through 10mm mild steel or 20mm aluminium in tolerably good time. Not tried to claw my way through larger stock in anything tougher than aluminium - 40mm I can manage and still have time left to do something that's actually entertaining, but I have some 100mm-ish aluminium I want to slice discs off and I haven't even managed ONE yet :( life always interferes.
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