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Gallery, Projects and General => Project Logs => Topic started by: krv3000 on October 24, 2011, 06:01:40 PM
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HI all not bin on for a while I have started engine No 13 as per lots of pics the bace is made out of 10mm aluminume plate with a finisht lenth of 240mm by 70mm wide all dun by hand mad up the cilinder and the end cuvers and silver solded on the bace for the valve chest right pics
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a bit more mad up the crank suports mad the esentrik and crank shaft end more pics the big bit will be the fly wheel
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HI just a up date I have bin on with other things and engine No13 has got left but I have bin on with it as with Meany things sum of the processes that i have dun IE the building of the Cross Head and the making of the 8 legs that it stands on I did not do any pics but i did tack sum of the making of the con rod and sum over all pics of things dun so far I cud have made the con rod out of 1 peace of brass but I decided to do sumthing different the man rod is of aluminum with brass ends I did not have any aluminum of the right diameter so i had to mashen a peace of 13mm DI dawn to a DI of 6mm the next bit no pics of but to a tach the little end the 6mm rod was center drilled 2.8mm then reamed to 3mm the little end I had all ready machend it up with a 3mm tale on the end by 12mm long this was with sum Bering fit and with the tale stock was preset in to place I then drilled a 1.5mm hole 8mm dawn from the top of the rod and I made a aluminum pin to go in then direst it off the cross slide end once a gane the rod was center drilled and tapt for a M3 by 12mm deep thread the cross slide was drilled on center 3.1mm then canter sunk for the screw right pics
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Looks good so far krv3000!!! :headbang:
Keep up with the pics!
Andrew
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Good to see you back on the engine build Bob :thumbup:
Looks great :clap: :clap:
Rob
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Nice work there Bob! :thumbup:
Eric
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HI all not dun a lot as its getting too cold to work in me workshop I have started to mack the slides for the Cross slide i need 4 of them they need to be 6mm x 6mm as per i do not have any and the price of a length was to much for me so i chopped a Peace of brass of a block of brass that i have witch is 40mm x 70mm then i made up a holding plate out of a lump of aluminum witch is 100mm x 80 x 30 marked of the middle drilled 12.8 mm then reamed 13 mm and with sum Bering fit and with the vice preset in a length of bar for holding the block in the 3 jaw chuck then i face the block off and drilled a relief in the center of the block then i glued the brass to the block with super glue and direst one side off then removed the hole lot and with a bit of heat from a blow torch the brass fell of let it cool dawn put the block back in to the lathe and re face the block this is to remove the glue and to keep this face true glue the brass back on to the block with the new face facing the block and then machen dawn the brass to 6mm right pics
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HI all well i have bin working on engine No13 honest will post sum pics i have made sum parts but no pics of them bin made right i made the piston out of cast ion from a brace cylinder put a grove in it for a o ring to be fitted then drilled a 3.9mm hole and pres fitted the piston rod i then made up the valve chest and chest cover a block of brasswas set up in the 4 jaw chuck and squared off then a peace of 3mm brass plate cut out ruff was glued to the block then all mashend up as one then wile still all in one peace was put on to the cylinder for the fixing holes to be drilled once this was dun a bit of heat with the blow torch and separated the top cover from the cheas then marked out the center on the back and front for the gland and road steddy drilled these out then marked out the middle then drilled and cut out the valve pocket and finished off with a file then made up the gland and steddy and silver soldered them to the chest all dun things left to do is drill the cylinder for the valve ports the valve nut and valve coupling for the valve rod and then a good polish
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HI all just sum pics of the engine so far the rusty lump is out of a brake cylinder which ended up as being the piston
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Hi
Bob
Looking very good
Thanks for the pictures
John
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HI all at last engine No13 up and ruining SOS still not masted the art of posting video of it ruining all that's left to do is give it a good Polish and mawnt it on to its base right pics
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Hi
Bob
Very nice :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:
I hope you get the video sorted be great to see it running :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool:
John
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hi i may mack a dvd and giv it to sum one to post for me wil post mor pics when all buft up
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Nice looking engine Bob
Jim
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HI all well its all dun last pics
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Bob - you can be really proud of that ! :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:
Dave
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Looks great, Bob. Do try and get someone to post a vid of it on the move.
Andy
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Hi
Bob
You should be very proud of your engine
The amount of "hand work" sawing and filing is a insparation to us all
John
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Hi Bob,
nice engine, she's a beauty! :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:
Looking forward to see the video.
Marcello
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Hi Bob
That is one super nice engine. The large amount of handwork that you have invested in that engine has surely paid off. That is an engine that you will be able to sit on the mantle and be very proud of. Thanks for allowing us to look over your shoulder while you built it. :D :D
Cheers :beer:
Don
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hi all if you go to this page you will see engine No13 and uthers runing
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Good Job bob
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Lovely, just lovely!
Nice one Bob. Videos really show them in action!
Andy