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Minnie TE Long term project

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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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