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| krv3000:
hi that's shaping up nice |
| Joe d:
Rob, KRV, Thanks lads. About time you got back to yours, eh Rob? :wack: :wack: Joe |
| RobWilson:
--- Quote from: Joe d on April 11, 2016, 03:40:29 PM --- About time you got back to yours, eh Rob? :wack: :wack: Joe --- End quote --- Maybe one day Joe ,I must admit I more interest in watching your build progress :thumbup: Do you have a name for her ? Rob |
| Joe d:
Hi Rob... Haven't nailed it down yet, but probably will go all traditional and name it GEORGE after my Dad... Made up the throttle lever and rod, didn't take any piccys, just straight forward turning of one threaded bit to fit the valve rod, and mill out a clevis for the other end, the lever is flat bar with a turned handle soldered on, and the bracket was a soldered together fabrication of flat bar as well. In place here, with some temporary fasteners moved on to the blow-down valve, turned and threaded a bit of bronze, parted it off and screwed it into a bit of spare ali in the small lathe (that was drilled and tapped in place so it is concentric with the spindle) turned down the now exposed other end, threaded it, moved the chuck to the dividing head in the mill to mill the flats to form a hex (all this as I didn't have any hex bronze in the pile) Turned, threaded, and parted off the spindle, also a bit of bronze some straight forward turned and tapped bits as well, soldered together, assembled, and in place: and now it's time for a cuppa and a smoke.... Joe |
| Joe d:
Well, squeezed in some shop time, got to work on the grate and the ash pan sliced up some stainless, drilled, turned some spacers, cut some rod to assemble it all on Stacked up with the ends of the rods peened over The ash pan was folded in the bench vise, and the corners silver soldered, riveted in supports for the grate, made up the damper and soldered on some hinges filed up out of sheet steel, and soldered heads on some rods as pins The control rod for the damper is piano wire with a slotted bit of flat stock soldered in And here it is where it lives: I'm not to crazy about the locking handle as drawn, so I will most likely make up something a little more in keeping with the look of the engine And now have turned to some of the brown stuff: need to make up the blocks for the brake turned some nice dry hard maple: Set up my handy-dandy toolpost that lets me turn stuff to the extreme edge of the Taig's envelope, and parting off a ring of the maple and here it is this will be cut into small segments and fastened to to the brake band.... Joe |
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