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vtsteam:
Love the flywheel method!

sbwhart:
Thanks Chaps

This mornings task to complete the flywheel, just griped it in the three jaw to see how it was running, and it looked good so drilled and reamed 6mm for the crank shaft.

Then spent the next couple of hours striping down and adding studs and sealer where required and chasing out tight spots then I wen and lost one of the main bearing searched every ware, brushed the floor, I gone though the cussing stage into despair, so went and asked the Boss to help me do a CSI search of the shed, "what are we looking for" "one of those", I said pointing to the remaining bearing, " so there should be three she said", "No", I said a little tetchy, " there's two" "well she said there's two there pointing"

Can you spot the missing bearing

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I can play a mean pin ball

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So with that mystery solved a roughly set the timing, and with not much hope gave it some air.

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Stew

doubleboost:
Very nice
Makes good sounds :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool:
John

Stilldrillin:
That runs very well Stew! :clap: :clap: :clap:

Relative simplicity, and a good finished size....... :thumbup:

Blummin well done! :)

David D

sbwhart:
Thanks all for your replies and support Chaps its very kind of you.

I must say its been a fun build.

I'll take her along to the Harrogate show this coming Saturday so if you a re there you can eye ball her.

Spent sum time fine tuning her, tightening and loosening nuts to see what happens as a result I've packed one of the bearing up a little, they weren't quite level, and I've also packed the cylinder up a little, I recon it wasn't quite lining up with the slide bars.

I'm going to have another fiddled with her today (the engine that is :headbang:) I still think there are few improvements to make to her running.

Then its time for a bit bling, acorn nuts on the top of the slide bars, I think I'll increase the size of the hold down bolts on the bed plate to M4 and add some bolt down pads so it looks a bit more like a casting, then its a strip down and a bit of paint:- apple green fro the engine and red for the fly wheel and I'm going to had some wooden cladding to the cylinder, and finally a nice hardwood base, and that should be just about job Done.

Ho and a nearly forgot, bring the drawing up to date and write it up for the Model Engineer.

Stew

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