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Joe d:
Well, still making some progress, albeit slowly...(been busy drooling over my birthday present to myself, a nice set of castings for a 1/8 Rider Ericsson are now hiding under my workbench)

milling out the piece that forms the pocket of the valve

And then saw it off of the parent stock

a bit of round stock gets silver soldered to that, with a little lug that the valve rod screws into

And in it's place:

Then more fasteners, need some bronze capscrews to fasten the cylinder to the boiler, so to work: turn down the end and thread with a die

turn some more to just over the overall size of the hex head, move the chuck to the indexing head on the mill and cut the hex head

move it back to the lathe and part off

and then in the collet I used for the studs, locked the carriage, and faced them all to the same size

Only needed to make 20, sure seemed to take a lot of time for such a small amount...

Cheers, Joe

Joe d:
well, still beavering away...

some straight-forward turning, drilling, and filing to make up the bits for the safety valve

Silver soldered it all together

here's the rest of the bits, I'll need to replace the spring, the current one out of the junk box is just a place-holder

and sitting where it belongs

Happily, had an off-cut of steel just the right diameter to use as a work-holder for drilling the mounting holes at the correct angles

bolted into place all the various bits, and trimmed the studs (still a little over long, final trimming will depend on the thickness of the gaskets)

And after a bunch of dis-assembly of the bits that will be in the way while installing the cylinder, here it is just sitting where it will go

Really starting to feel like the end is getting near now... :ddb:

Joe

tom osselton:
Looking good I'm watching with interest.

Joe d:
Hi Tom

Thanks for looking in.

RobWilson:
:clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: Nice going Joe :thumbup:

There sure is allot of work goes into making that cylinder block assembly :clap: :clap:

Rob

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