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This concludes the best of the pictures provided by Bill and our friend, Ron.

I may have a few of my own to add.

I hope you enjoyed this fairly detailed insight of some of Bills work.

If you have come this far through the pictures.... I thought you might like a short video from 2019.

Enjoy,

Gil

I really don't know whether I should cry for pure joy .... or for shear discouragement!

Simply Superb doesn't even begin to cover it ...... a machinist to the Gods he must truly be!!!

Ahmina GaGa!  Is that part of your collection Gil? That's amazing.

Hi Tom, Yes, part of the permanent collection here at the Office of Steam.

Gil

For a rank amateur such as myself, seeing these photos of work that is seemingly of such a high and unobtainable quality and complexity is an emotional mix of inspiration and frustration, total awe and something akin to embarrassment, reverence and resignation, knowing full well that I could never in a thousand lifetimes rise to the level of creation that I'm seeing here!

Daunting, is the word that most comes to mind, while viewing these photos of a true Master Machinists Art!

Hi Daniel, My recommendation is to drop the frustration, embarrassment, and resignation..... And keep the other three!

By the way, I have a lathe and I can problably make you a decent plug on it and not much else.
And let me have at least a half hour to git 'er done.

I really don't know whether I should cry for pure joy .... or for shear discouragement!

Simply Superb doesn't even begin to cover it ...... a machinist to the Gods he must truly be!!!

Go for the joy, Daniel.... a machinist for the Gods he is!

He is a most exceptional engineer, toolmaker, fabricator, and a few other sets of skills.
He did prototypical development work in Germany and then for the Canadian Government.

The engine you are looking at here was built from only a single photograph and one library book that described the inner workings of the Sulzer poppet valves.

Gil

Here are the 2 most important images for this project.

They are also the only two images he had for the project.

He made many of the parts by extrapolating from the photograph you see here.

This was his only picture of the engine.

The last part of the puzzle was the poppet valves innards.

The drawing you see below was copied from a library book that described the Sulzer engine.

Bill doesn't have the internet.

Gil


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Quote from: RedRyder on March 08, 2021, 06:02:36 pm

Quote from: Jim on March 08, 2021, 04:22:30 pm

Nirvana of machining skills.

I agree 100%, Jim. The work is just amazing.

Gil

Been looking intricately at the photos Gil, the machining skills are beyond amazing.

Bill did not even need a magnifier for the small fiddly parts he made.