Hey Dave, Ray and Don. Thanks for all your support
Well I'm getting there but you'll need another break or two yet Don. I need to find a compressor to give her a test run. I'll find a way around that soon enough though. Then all going well a video.
I made a start on the inlet manifold. It's made out of two hat shaped pieces of brass with a T-piece between them. Here's the start of the first hat being parted off in the lathe
I needed to drill 3 holes in each of the hats. Here's my lathe drilling spindle, it's made from a Chinese milling spindle for an 8mm lathe I got off Ebay and a 12V DC motor. When I place it on my topslide it's at centre height.
Here's the indexing at the back of my lathe. All made from the indexing gear for my rotary table
Here's drilling the holes
Then drilled a hole through the side in the milling machine
I made the T-piece out of some square brass. Here it is being drilled
and here's the thing mock-up assembled
I now need to attach it to the head with some 10BA studs and solder it together. I'm going to soft solder it with it in place on the head. On second thoughts the brass tube in the head is stuck in with loctite
Well, I'll come up with something
Getting there
Steve