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The Regular Stuff: Chat, Buy, Sell, Off Topic, etc. => General Discussion - Model & Toy Steam Engines – Stirling Cycle – Flame Lickers – Small Antique Originals => Topic started by: RedRyder on March 07, 2021, 02:22:24 pm
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Here's a close up of the inlet valves on Bill's creation:
https://youtu.be/wHQiXD40Hq4
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Here are a couple short video of a full sized somewhat similar Sulzer tandem compound.
Bill did not have the benefit of looking at any of this sort of video.
Gil
https://youtu.be/8mIXYuneDZM
https://youtu.be/gEfZqKYohMs
https://youtu.be/eXilpscuOnE
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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.
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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.
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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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An engine from outside of this world; especially with the step-by-step documentation. Are you sure the machinist did not get help from extraterrestrial super intelligence? nice to watch it running.
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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
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Nirvana of machining skills.
I agree 100%, Jim. The work is just amazing.
Gil
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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.
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All I can say is Wow !
Thanks, Bruce. In some of these photos you can see some of the tooling that Bill had to make specific to this project.
Gil
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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
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Nirvana of machining skills.
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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!!!
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Ahmina GaGa! Is that part of your collection Gil? That's amazing.
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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
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The machine is coming together!
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A few more pictures!
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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!
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There's more coming!
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All I can say is Wow !
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Here you will see lots of pictures of the work of a true master of his craft.
I acquired these photos from Bill's friend Ron. Ron took a lot of the photos and Bill himself took a lot of them.
This engine was built with no drawings and mostly from a photograph of the full sized original.
Enjoy.
Gil
First a few pictures of Bill at work in his shop...
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