What did you do today (2015)

[Michael GilliganParticipant @michaelgilligan61133]

Posted by Jon Gibbs on 06/03/2015 11:46:20:

you have to give her some artistic license

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In grateful thanks for the 'Blue' and 'Mingus' albums; she can have all the artistic license she wants !!

MichaelG.

[Boiler BriParticipant @boilerbri]

Made me blast nozzle for me 4" traction engine.

[Harry WilkesParticipant @harrywilkes58467]

Posted by Boiler Bri on 06/03/2015 20:29:25:

Made me blast nozzle for me 4" traction engine.

Hope you have made it so that it can be easily changed !

H

[Boiler BriParticipant @boilerbri]

Yep i used a compression fitting to connect it to the tube coming from the cylinder, hidden inside the chimney base. Then tapped it m12 so I can make different sizes of nozzles as per your advice on another web site 😦

Edited By Boiler Bri on 07/03/2015 06:32:59

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

Well after a morning doing odd and ends in the garden I finished putting the Cameron pump together after lunch and took a quick video. Not the best quality also as its bedding in more the engine kept wanting to speed up, couldn't get the compressor regulator much lower as it was there was nothing registering on the scale.

J

[Anonymous]

Made a t-bolt and washer so that I can attach the drill and tap grinding accessory to my T&C grinder, ready to grind the reliefs on the square thread taps I am making. The taps have also been hardened and tempered today, in between gardening.

Andrew

[DullnoteParticipant @dullnote]

Managed to get around to start simple mill engine from the mag, no casting so easy to try again. Well everyone tells you measure twice cut once, nobody tells you to read the drawings three times.. Last week or so I have mucked about shaping HSS tools shapeing them grinding and generals muck about to find out what works best. Today big start day got the square bar set it up in four jaw chuck, faced it off then , parted 50mm to make the bit, to my surprise no issue there, cut like a dream, all my mucking about has paid off. On a high set up the parted part back in four jaw got it running true, drilled through the middle, carried on making holes required. Very pleased with my efforts, reward cup of coffee, then on to next bit, then noticed my error, hole should be off set, delema will it be ok looking at other things in drawings, eventually dicided bin it. Start again, problem off set in chuck, solution made a support for DTI got it so the unit ran true then marked two opposite jaws out with calculator to determine position. Whole afternoon in shop, one little bit, but it my little bit, I know looking on this board this is nothing great but I am chuffed to bits, roll on next session, I might even manage the next bit

Jim

[Nicholas FarrParticipant @nicholasfarr14254]

Posted by Neil Wyatt on 06/03/2015 13:35:08:

To be fair to Joni – those words are from a pastiche

Neil

But they were her lyrics **LINK**

I remember the song well way back in 69.

Regards Nick.

[Nick_GParticipant @nick_g]

Posted by JasonB on 07/03/2015 20:08:08:

I finished putting the Cameron pump together after lunch and took a quick video.

Nice running and beautifully finished Jason.

Whats the next project.?

Nick

[JasonBModerator @jasonb]

I've been working on a 1/2 scale Gade hit & miss engine at the same time as doing the Cameron and that only has a few bits until its complete. Then I'm "doing a Ramon" and making a pair of model aero engines all from solid, should be quite a quick job as there are not many parts to them. After that Diane has talked me into making an organ engine, just waiting for her to foward some sketches)

[Danny M2ZParticipant @dannym2z]

Follwed the progress of this – **LINK** it made it in safely and arrived at 7.47.

Used only 1/2 the small strip with wheel brakes only. Better than rotting away in the Arizona graveyard.

This particular 747-400 set a record when it flew direct from London-Sydney in 20 hours on it's delivery flight.

* Danny M *

Edited By Danny M2Z on 08/03/2015 13:33:38

[ANDY CAWLEYParticipant @andycawley24921]

 

 

Dialled in the camshaft on the Anzani after four year rebuild! This included making replacement mag drive bearing from cast Babett,making replacement rollers for the tappets and making vernier ( well adjustable) cam drive sprocket.

The crank case in the back ground is mis leading, it is a replica of the Bleriot engine that crossed the channel.

Edited to add , yesterday actually. 

Edited By ANDY CAWLEY on 10/03/2015 08:56:05

Edited By ANDY CAWLEY on 10/03/2015 08:57:58

Edited By ANDY CAWLEY on 10/03/2015 08:59:29

[Anonymous]

In reality this took place yesterday; I have ground the reliefs on my hardened and tempered square thread taps, using this set up:

The first tap took 40 minutes due to general ignorance, as I've never done this before. Having sorted the first tap, the other two took about 10 minutes each.

Naturally I tried the taps; they cut a really nice thread in a piece of scrap brass, very little force was needed. It was pleasing to drive the taps using a wrench made by my father during his apprenticeship at RAE Farnborough in the early 1940s.

Andrew

[MuzzerParticipant @muzzer]

Andrew

Have you got any close-ups of the taps? You must post some. I expect they will be sickeningly good as ever….

Murray

Edited By Muzzer on 11/03/2015 14:49:23

[OuBallieParticipant @ouballie]

YES YES YES.

As a previous 4 times F1 champion was wont of shouting at the chequered flag.

Thank you JS for repairing my Marlow Handwheel.

Just needs a coat of paint to finish.

More photos added to the Album.

Geoff – JS you are a Knight in Shining Armour!

[Anonymous]

Posted by Muzzer on 11/03/2015 14:49:10:

Have you got any close-ups of the taps?

Here's a picture of the working end of the taps:

Time will tell if they work.

Andrew

[MuzzerParticipant @muzzer]

Wow, very nice. Now you will have to tell us if they produce nuts that mate with the leadscrew – the acid test. No pressure then!!

Murray

[Gray62Participant @gray62]

Andrew, those taps look great, how did you flute them, ground, milled or a combination of both?

Need something like this to do the brake gear on my engines

How about doing a write up of the process for MEW

cheers

Graeme

[Anonymous]

The flutes were milled on a horizontal mill, using a convex cutter:

They could also be done on a vertical mill, with a ball nose cutter, but probably not in one pass, which is why I chose to use the horizontal mill.

As for writing up for MEW that's not my decision; over to our esteemed editor.

Andrew

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

I'm sure it would be of interest!

Neil

[Michael ToppingParticipant @michaeltopping17870]

Bought a job lot of C5 collets from e bay so thought I better make use of them, made a spindle nose adaptor and a drawbar for my Warco 290. Could have done with a piece of thick walled tube for the drawbar but would have to have bought 6m so turned it from a piece of 1.5" bar. Lots of swarf! Took a while but finally bored through to 1.06" dia.

2nd photo shows a 1/16 collet in use to turn up some pivots, seems to run within .0005".

Michael

[Anonymous]

Fixed the 3D printer. Amongst the angst of it having wobblies over printing a part it had already made 40 off I noticed that the cooling fans had stopped working. Easy enough to diagnose a broken wire; but then I badgered the broken crimp by soldering the wrong end. So with the help of some writing on the connector, and the Farnell website, I identified the connector, and the associated crimps. One hundred (minimum order) crimps ordered yesterday, delivered at lunchtime and used this evening. Problem solved.

Andrew

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

> One hundred (minimum order) crimps ordered yesterday, delivered at lunchtime and used this evening

That's a lot of crimping!

Neil

[Anonymous]

Posted by Neil Wyatt on 12/03/2015 20:36:37:

That's a lot of crimping!

Neil

My days of mass crimping are long over; I let our assembly company do that stuff now. I only needed one crimp but had to buy one hundred minimum. But at a penny hayp'nny each it didn't exactly break the bank.

Andrew

Edited By Andrew Johnston on 12/03/2015 20:48:12

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

>missing smiley alert<

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