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Weekend progress report !
 There is no progress to report .
This weekend was Feilding annual steam fair and as usual
I was an exhibitor.
The weekend consisted of
4.45 am get up . Go milk cows .
8.00 am get home and leave in car .arrive 9.30 am setup for 10.00 am start.
4.00 pm leave ,get home and go milk. 8.00 pm home
Both days .
Tonight was clean engines ,oil and put away.

Hopefully normal service resumes .

Cheers
Dennis

I like traveling too much to keep your schedule!

There was an old dairy farmer near us that supposedly never slept in a bed. He would milk cows and take short naps sitting on his stool out in the barn.

I suppose the next thing to make is the  &*^$&* flywheels
 I think they have curved spokes  and then a water test

Cheers
Dennis

Great progress there Dennis, well done!

...and yup, curved spokes 

In hindsight you could have aimed for the square reservoir model to avoid that...but then the base/reservoir most likely would have been more troublesome?
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I think the squareish reservoir  would not be to much problem
I would start with round brass tube and a steel former then silver solder a base inside .

Back to the drawing board .
F&^%$* pulleys
Turn on lathe brass to size with recess.
Then on to mill with rotary table .
Between idiot in charge , blind eyes ,fat fingers
1 1/2 hours and 2 broken 3 mm bits i have this piece of crap

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Well the pulley shown was plan A
While at work tonight I came up with a plan B
This might be tomorrow job

Cheers
Dennis

That's some clever outside the box thinking there Dennis.
I reckon with some Dremel cleaning up they will look pretty good mate.