Today’s “achievement” came close to scrapping several hours’ work when I started tapering the con-rod for my Minnie in the wrong direction:

I blame being distracted by Woman’s Hour. I realised just in time and was able to salvage it:

(The taper is now as it should be, even though it doesn’t look it in the photo)

Been a week of doing ‘tangential’ stuff – made a couple of angle blocks / templates, spent one session doing nothing but wiping rust off things and just running all the machinery.. ..did manage to drill the small-end holes in the piston yoke and conrod for the flame-licker, tho’..

Been a lot of tree corpses to clear up here, latter part of the week – just as well, I see it’s now  snowing..

Jason, what is that part? ..if it’s not secret..

..that’s a lot of joints and pivots to keep snug-but-slick.. ..rather you than me – look forward to seeing more, it looks an interesting one..

And further progress with the workshop is an upgrade to the metrology department.

FAo Jack Hobson,

Really like the rope work on the handle of the sword – how do you do it ?  bind the cord and then stitch the bundles in the centre ?

I’m making an axe for the local G&S Society – Mikado and would like to do similar if possible.

Also I need to make a Snicker Snee – a sort of shorter sword with a flat ended blade I think – it will not be sharp though !

Richard B.

PM me if you like.

Cleaned up a Quorn. Might be useful. A few bits to make so a nice mini project (not like making the whole thing!!).

Also a nice little pillar drill. A bit too much runout I think to be truly great. But it looks nice. Variable speed DC motor.

On 8 January 2024 at 20:14 JasonB Said:

Thanks All I’ll keep um coming.

The part is the top beam for the 1/5th scale Denny Improved Ericsson hot air engine I’m building.

Quick lash up to see how it looks, ignore the rear links as the crank arm is not fixed on that side. Mark may like to know that the ends of the brass links were rounded with filing buttons as the holes are only 1.6mm dia so did not think a M1.6 screw upto the side milling loads.

That’s a very elegant engine there Jason. Have you come far with it? Have you had it running?

On 20 September 2024 at 07:36 JasonB Said:

Build thread with videos at the end.

I see your chinese suppliers do a small one now

I’ll enjoy reading through that thread in bed tonight on my iPad.

I don’t have a Chinese supplier, I purchase everything.
Yes they don’t mind copying ANYTHING, but it does allow the ‘common’ bloke like me to enjoy running engines that I would never be able to in any other circumstance. Though they look nice, they still aren’t a patch on a build that a true model engineer who earned their stripes can make.