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| Zadig:
Looking excellent Joe. Great machining skills, a really enjoyable thread. |
| Joe d:
Thanks, Zadig. My Minnie parts are a bit easier to manhandle compared to your Burrell. |
| Zadig:
Yes, but you need stronger specs, so it all evens out. |
| Joe d:
Started machining the casting for the smokebox saddle, fussed around and got it running more or less true to turn the chucking spigot set it up in the mill to shape the curved surface with the boring head put it back in the lathe to bore through, and then drilled a steam passage up from underneath, that meets a hole in from the face of the web on the side of the casting. Here you see the nice plug silver soldered into place on the back of that web since I got a little enthusiastic and drilled right through instead of just meeting the passage up from the bottom..... :hammer: made up the various little fittings for the blower (some obnoxious bronze stock here, pain to turn, broke two drill bits, good thing there's only 3 more inches of it left...) starting with soldering up a tee into the mill to reduce the arms to length and drill & tap, turned the various bushes & nuts, & the nozzle, and here it is testing for fit, after a lot of fettling of the casting So, with this done, I can move on with attaching the smoke box to the boiler. |
| Ginger Nut:
I'll pull up a chair and watch this looks a super build. :thumbup: |
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