Author Topic: Wilesco D3 modification build thread (near finished with video's) (Read 3780 times)

oilfield_steam · « **Reply #15 on:** January 01, 2021, 10:23:29 am »

Great stuff in this thread Bruce, including your supersizing your order of the double deluxe transmission.

I would never have thought to take a Wilesco current production whistle and make a shutoff valve with it. Nice.

I guess the one you used was similar to: https://www.ebay.com/i/333800981356

Nick · « **Reply #16 on:** January 01, 2021, 10:27:03 am »

Quote from: St Paul Steam on January 01, 2021, 08:41:59 am

I have one more thing I want to do with it...but I'm waiting for that part to come in the mail.

I think you need to send this one off to your nickel plater

Would sure end up being one expensive D3

Steamloco · « **Reply #17 on:** January 01, 2021, 10:30:11 am »

Best running D3 I've ever seen in no small part to your mods. From what I understand, you're lucky if you have one that even runs. Mine runs, but sloppy.
Do you have a video of it running in stock condition? Interesting to see how much improvement over it's original form.

St Paul Steam · « **Reply #18 on:** January 01, 2021, 11:46:04 am »

Quote from: oilfield_steam on January 01, 2021, 10:23:29 am

Great stuff in this thread Bruce, including your supersizing your order of the double deluxe transmission.

I would never have thought to take a Wilesco current production whistle and make a shutoff valve with it. Nice.

I guess the one you used was similar to: https://www.ebay.com/i/333800981356

Thanks Scott.
I had a baggie with several old stock (Metal) whistles, the one thing that seems difficult to find is a Wilesco throttle valve that actually has a parallel or positive on /off location, Wilesco tends to not care where the handles ends up for open/close....

mine was more like this one ...
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Wilesco-Old-Style-Metal-Valve-Whistle-Part-510-for-Model-Toy-Steam-Engine-D405/353307811222?hash=item5242c95d96:g:GtkAAOSwX-BfzCGT

St Paul Steam · « **Reply #19 on:** January 01, 2021, 11:49:24 am »

Quote from: Steamloco on January 01, 2021, 10:30:11 am

Best running D3 I've ever seen in no small part to your mods. From what I understand, you're lucky if you have one that even runs. Mine runs, but sloppy.
Do you have a video of it running in stock condition? Interesting to see how much improvement over it's original form.

Bret , that was an excellent Idea & wish I would have thought about that 1st, I shot a little air to it to see if it would run....it did , & off I went to disassembling it, it was only after I put it back together when I realized how poorly everything was machined. I do remember that it took 6psi to even run , I think because it was such a poor runner & it looked like it had only one firing judging by the very clean condition of the fuel tray & engine itself...the original owner was somewhat dissatisfied with it & moved it on.
I could also observe that its breaking in very nicely, the more I run it , the better it runs. I have approx 3 hrs run time on it now & its really running quite good now. I highly suspect that most of these don't get run often/long enough to get properly broken in 😔

St Paul Steam · « **Reply #20 on:** January 01, 2021, 09:24:31 pm »

Quote from: Nick on January 01, 2021, 10:27:03 am

Quote from: St Paul Steam on January 01, 2021, 08:41:59 am
I have one more thing I want to do with it...but I'm waiting for that part to come in the mail.

I think you need to send this one off to your nickel plater

Would sure end up being one expensive D3

I don't have all that much money in it Nick , less than $100 , but I'm over 12 hrs. In the build time now (time is money) & I still have about 1 hr. Of work still to go. Nickel plate the boiler....hummmm 🤔

Jim · « **Reply #21 on:** January 02, 2021, 04:14:22 pm »

A thoroughly enjoyable thread Bruce, thanks for taking the time to illustrate how you are doing your mods.

St Paul Steam · « **Reply #22 on:** January 02, 2021, 08:31:55 pm »

Quote from: Jim on January 02, 2021, 04:14:22 pm

A thoroughly enjoyable thread Bruce, thanks for taking the time to illustrate how you are doing your mods.

Thanks Jim, after several days & only 1 positive post Re: this thread, I thought maybe there was little interest & was going to let it die a natural death , but the view count was increasing so I decided to finished it off here

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krypto31337 · « **Reply #23 on:** January 02, 2021, 10:54:14 pm »

I went back and watched your videos on those transmissions. Wow, that was a lot of plunge cutting on the lathe to make all those steps in the pulleys! Awesome build!

Over the long holiday weekend I watched some of the Jensen shop tour videos on YouTube and noticed in the background an old South Bend lathe and it looked like the machinist was in the process of making some belt pulleys. It looked familiar to me because that's what I was doing just the day before on my (not quite as) old South Bend lathe! The amount of run time on their lathes to make all those parts for so many years must be mind boggling.

St Paul Steam · « **Reply #24 on:** January 03, 2021, 07:44:02 am »

Quote from: krypto31337 on January 02, 2021, 10:54:14 pm

I went back and watched your videos on those transmissions. Wow, that was a lot of plunge cutting on the lathe to make all those steps in the pulleys! Awesome build!

Over the long holiday weekend I watched some of the Jensen shop tour videos on YouTube and noticed in the background an old South Bend lathe and it looked like the machinist was in the process of making some belt pulleys. It looked familiar to me because that's what I was doing just the day before on my (not quite as) old South Bend lathe! The amount of run time on their lathes to make all those parts for so many years must be mind boggling.

Hi Doug , I toured the Jensen factory & they allowed me total access to film anything I desired, I took the approach that this might be my only chance I would have & filmed it with the though in mind to show everything that an enthusiast would want to see. I didn't see anything at Jensen Mfg. that looked like it had been purchased in the last 50 years (except metal stock) it is definitely a step back in time to go there.
Re:making pulleys, it is a lot of plunge cutting & time consuming & none of my pulleys are exactly the same as they are all custom made. I think about all the time it takes to make a Jensen #25 for example...I marvel at how they can sell them for the price they do.
I watched several of your videos on your site & found them very interesting , good work there.

Jim · « **Reply #25 on:** January 03, 2021, 04:17:58 pm »

The transmissions are works of art.

St Paul Steam · « **Reply #26 on:** January 03, 2021, 04:20:02 pm »

Quote from: Jim on January 03, 2021, 04:17:58 pm

The transmissions are works of art.

Your to kind , many here could make them (you could)

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