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Title: New member from Italy
Post by: mzt on April 06, 2012, 10:03:38 AM

Hi everybody,

I'm Marcello from Torino, Italy.
I'm using metals (mostly scraps) to make chips, swarfs and small steam engines.

Homeshop machines are an Optimum BF20 mill and a 7x10 sized lathe, same brand.

Marcello

Title: Re: New member from Italy
Post by: Brass_Machine on April 06, 2012, 10:07:20 AM

Hi Marcello  :wave:

Welcome to the collective :borg:

Let's see some pictures of your engines.

Italy? Very cool... Go Rossi this weekend!

Eric

Title: Re: New member from Italy
Post by: spuddevans on April 06, 2012, 10:56:01 AM

Hi there Marcello :wave: welcome to Madmodder  :mmr:


Tim

Title: Re: New member from Italy
Post by: mzt on April 10, 2012, 10:10:10 AM

Hi all,

here's the pictures of my production.

The David II was originally made with an aluminium cylinder, it lasted about four or five seconds before destroying itself. Learnt the meaning of 'galling', that day.

Here it's shown with the new cylinder, column and piston.

(http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/ee403/mzetati/_steamEngines/01-DavidII/DavidII-04-IMG_0346small.jpg)


Next, came Elmer's #13: I had ideas I could make the bearing from solid aluminium (plans were for soldered brass): I succeded, but will never show a closeup picture of the drills below the reversing mechanism.

(http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/ee403/mzetati/_steamEngines/02-EV3OpenColumnWithReverse/EV3-OpenColumnWithReverse-IMG_0687small.jpg)


This is the MVDEO10x20, my fourth, which came out as #3 when I could not re-assemble the parts of the Open Column with Reverse:

(http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/ee403/mzetati/_steamEngines/04-MVDEO10x20/MVDEO10x20-IMG_0040small.jpg)

a few Years later I finally replaced that temporary base

(http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/ee403/mzetati/_steamEngines/04-MVDEO10x20/MVDEO10x20-IMG_1911small.jpg)

My fifth, Elmer's #17

(http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/ee403/mzetati/_steamEngines/05-EV17PumpingEngine/EV17-PumpingEngine-IMG_1506.jpg)

And the sixth, Elmer's #29

(http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/ee403/mzetati/_steamEngines/06-EV29MineEngine/29-MineEngine-IMG_1855small.jpg)

(http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/ee403/mzetati/_steamEngines/06-EV29MineEngine/29-MineEngine-IMG_1891small.jpg)

(http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/ee403/mzetati/_steamEngines/06-EV29MineEngine/29-MineEngine-IMG_1905small.jpg)

A closeup of the dome

(http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/ee403/mzetati/_steamEngines/06-EV29MineEngine/29-MineEngine-IMG_1907small.jpg)

And the reason why it was made that way.

(http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/ee403/mzetati/_steamEngines/06-EV29MineEngine/20_BrassWhatever_IMG_1703small.jpg)

(http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/ee403/mzetati/_steamEngines/06-EV29MineEngine/20_BrassWhatever_IMG_1672-3-4-5small.jpg)


Finally, I managed to complete my 3rd, the Open Column with Reverse: it doesn't run very well, but I don't think I will spend more time into fixing that thing (I never liked much from the start).

(http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/ee403/mzetati/_steamEngines/03-RiverQueen/RiverQueen_IMG_1959.jpg)

(http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/ee403/mzetati/_steamEngines/03-RiverQueen/RiverQueen_IMG_1960.jpg)


Current projects are a coupla of Bernays (started machining the first from an aluminium block, then managed to put my hands on a lump of bronze... I really could foresee no way to recycle that thin al. around those big holes but for a Bernay block, and so it was), a slowly progressing Elmer's #33 an even slowlier #34, a Sidewheeler from E.T. Westbury (still at the scribing stage: spent days scribing and re-scribing the same parts on a steel plate before being informed there was an error into the drawings) and a double sized Elemer's #13 I will never complete (but I won't maind: I stopped giving 'numbers' to my engines the moment I started them. No more gaps to fill)
There's also a couple of "Eric" locos. But I don't have the equipment nor the skills to have parts brazed or soldered, and that will be a bit of a problem with the boilers. Will face it the day it will come.

All the above projects were started on the same day, some two weeks after completing #29: that put a clear cut on the 'what next?' dilemma.

Marcello

Title: Re: New member from Italy
Post by: DaveH on April 10, 2012, 10:22:37 AM

Marcello  :wave:

Hello and welcome to MadModder  :clap:


A very nice collection of engines, nicely made.

 :beer:
DaveH

Title: Re: New member from Italy
Post by: doubleboost on April 10, 2012, 04:39:47 PM

Hi
Marcello
Welcome to Madmodder
Thanks for postiny the pictures of your engines :clap: :clap: :clap:
Great to see how each one becomes more complicated
John

Title: Re: New member from Italy
Post by: cwelkie on April 10, 2012, 08:12:40 PM

Very nice work Marcello!
Thank you for sharing all the photos.
Charlie

Title: Re: New member from Italy
Post by: krv3000 on April 11, 2012, 02:47:44 AM

HI jump in and have fun

Title: Re: New member from Italy
Post by: mzt on April 12, 2012, 02:49:03 AM

Quote from: doubleboost on April 10, 2012, 04:39:47 PM

Great to see how each one becomes more complicated
John

something about climbing the hill step by step, as you guessed.
Marcello

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Could not find a way to edit my previous post, I'll make the due corrections here:

"Next, came Elmer's #13:" Should read "Elmer's #3" (the Open Column with Reverse), while all the references to the "Open Column with Reverse" should have been "River Queen Launch Engine".

Title: Re: New member from Italy
Post by: mzt on April 12, 2012, 03:00:02 AM

The more I look at that ugly head of my River Queen (to say nothing about them SH screws) the more I feel I should spend a few more minutes on that engine.
Marcello