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Joe d:
Thanks guys.

David; are you related to my wife? She always asks what the delay on things that she said were no rush :clap:

--- Quote from: vtsteam on February 25, 2013, 01:30:31 PM ---ps, I hope you started cutting your biggest gear first and not last ......... :D

don't ask ....
--- End quote ---

I've never taken direction well, so, I'm asking.... actually, did them in order from smallest to largest, mostly as I had lots of material to allow
for messing up in the smaller sizes, had the last 80 tooth not come out I would have been buying more metal as it was the last piece on hand big enough. I've been reading your thread on a monotube boiler, I'm in Montreal, so if I hear a big boom sort of noise from the south-east
I'll know who's responsible :lol:

Cheers all, Joe

vtsteam:
Might just be a wet sounding hiss before the snap of a rod breaking, and then a distant voice saying something like " oh muck." :zap:

Joe d:
Progress being made....

Decided to have a go at carving a flywheel out of a chunk of cast iron :proj:

Can always get a casting if I don't like the way it turns out :)

turned up the blank:

drilled a bunch of locating holes

and milled a number of straight-line slots

Tomorrow will see it on the rotary table to complete the cut-outs, and then file, file file....

Cheers, Joe

Joe d:
Been getting some things done, but have not been posting pictures as Photobucket is being a royal pain since
the so-called improvements... :hammer:

finished milling the flywheel:

and then a fair bit of filing...

Have to cut a keyway eventually.

Then moved on to some copper work. Made up a mandril from some all-thread and bit of wood to true up
the ends of the boiler tube

and made up a stand where this will live for quite some time before it will stand up on its' own

More to follow before I'm caught up, but now its time for a :coffee:

Cheers, Joe

Joe d:
Hi all

Been awhile, but some progress has been made...
I was back-and- forthing with copper bits whilst waiting for a new torch to arrive, which came in on Monday, so I can
start some assembly :ddb:

made a former out of some spare hot-rolled, and flanged the throat-plate, and fitted it to the barrel

Former and ends for the fire-box

Bent the wrapper and tried for fit

sweated a couple of bits of copper together to get a piece of sufficient thickness for the pump pad, and fly-cut the radius in it to fit the barrel

and finally was able to start some silver soldering.... reinforcing pads inside the tube

and the pump pad on the outside

and then add on the throat plate and outer wrapper....

Looks pretty good fresh out of the pickle.... :)

Now I get to make a new former and re-flange the ends for the fire box, as SOMEBODY made the mistake of ADDING instead of SUBTRACTING
when calculating the width of the former.... wish I knew who that is that keeps sneaking in and making these math errors....

A little more to come in the next few weeks, and then it all comes to a shuddering halt until mid September as I am leaving to work out of town
for 3 months.

Cheers, Joe

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