A Wallaby of my own.

[steamer]

MEH.....is what it is.     I wouldn't trade this layoff for the world.   What my son and I accomplished doing it was amazing.    and we couldn't have gotten as close as we are if we hadn't done so.


Dave

[b.lindsey]

Not to digress too much, but I hope Ava is continuing to do well also. Is she pursuing her archery again? Another hobby for Dad perhaps??

Bill

[stevehuckss396]

2005? Heck, we were all mere babies back then 

I had not bought my mill or lathe and had never machined anything.

[steamer]

Built my first steam engine and boiler in 1988.....


On a Sears Craftsman 109 lathe to boot...and a home made mill



8-)

[steamer]

[steamer]

Not to digress too much, but I hope Ava is continuing to do well also. Is she pursuing her archery again? Another hobby for Dad perhaps??

Bill

We both shoot, but not since she got sick.  I'm itching to get back at it.   I have a really nice Hoyt Olympic bow....and I shoot bare bow...no sites....

Dave

[b.lindsey]

Nice looking mill. The robust frame certainly dwarfs that repurposed sherline head though, but ain't nothin' wrong with rigid

Bill

[steamer]

Nope...it was a "FIND" mill...I found the sherline being thrown out..not table, but HS and TS.   .the vertical was a broken boring head off a Warner Swayze #5 Turret lathe that crashed and broke the foot off.   I had the High School shop class mill the broken foot off parallel to the dovetail.    The frame was welded together by a friend for a case of beer, and then filled with hydraulic cement.   Spent some time with my Dad
s angle grinder getting it square enough, and then shimmed the Atlas drill press table to get it square....weighed about 200 pounds....ran out of motor first....heh heh...

Build a lot of stuff with it!

Dave

[steamer]

Time to rough out the cam shaft!!!

Additionally, I just ordered Howells water pump to be driven off the cam shaft at the rear.

I got the material kit for it too.

Dave

[steamer]

Yup....roughed it out to diameter and length...in record time!!!!

how come it looks funny? 

My new parting tool is 0.125"....not like the old 0.093".......

Good thing I got a foot of 1144.......but not tonight...

Dave

[b.lindsey]

Bunmmer Dave. Tomorrow will be better no doubt

Bill

[steamer]

Excrement occurs!!!



We're running a race tomorrow....after that.....

Dave

[b.lindsey]

Good luck at the races then...go team Hog!!

Bill

[steamer]

Gotta start on the Cam shaft tonight....baby step, i'm still smoked from this weekend....

But we're moving...

Dave

[steamer]

Ok. Roughed out the cam today.    This thing is starting to look like an engine!.   Time to. UT the tapers on the crank and the cam.   Some oil pan work and the main bearings and cam bearings an then on to the top end!!!.