Love the shot of them all lined up
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
You certainly did have a full weekend. I had an uncle who was a dairy farmer, and he worked in the shop.
Cow's came first, the shop, come home to the cows everyday.
Those pumps are looking sweet.
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.
Some shed time
Turned the rim over
Only annealed once before I started
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After some cleaning
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Cheers
Dennis
I suppose the next thing to make is the &*^$&* flywheels
I think they have curved spokes and then a water test
Cheers
Dennis
Great progress there Dennis, well done!
...and yup, curved spokes
In hindsight you could have aimed for the square reservoir model to avoid that...but then the base/reservoir most likely would have been more troublesome?
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Great progress there Dennis, well done!
...and yup, curved spokes
In hindsight you could have aimed for the square reservoir model to avoid that...but then the base/reservoir most likely would have been more troublesome?
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I think the squareish reservoir would not be to much problem
I would start with round brass tube and a steel former then silver solder a base inside .
Clever turning the rim over. They are looking great.
Back to the drawing board .
F&^%$* 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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Some nice foundry work there Dennis.
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
Plan B
We have a central hub with 5 holes drilled.
A outer ring with 5 holes on a angle
And 5 rods bent by eyechromotor
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Insert rods through rim
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Silver solder then some trimming on lathe
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Are they perfect ? NO
Are they acceptable? Still thinking
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.
That is a very clever solution!! I would say very acceptable
Who gets the credit though? You or the elves?