BUILDING THE EASTERN & ANDERSON GRASSHOPPER

[kvom]

 Nice work there Don!   

[b.lindsey]

That's some nice progress today Don. Beautiful work as always. Always look forward to your updates on the E&A.

Bill

[NickG]

Beautiful engine Don, glad I looked at this thread.

[ths]

It's already been said, and it looks so sweet in your hand. Cheers, Hugh.

[Don1966]

Thanks kirk, Bill! Nick and Hugh for your support .

Beautiful engine Don, glad I looked at this thread.

Nick glad to have you on board.

Well today was not a good day. It's one of those days where it's best to leave well enough alone. I was attempting to make the air pump rod. After two attempts I shut it down for the day. I did manage to make the piston for the air pump and that was almost a mishap but I managed to save it. I did a bunch of fiddling and it really doesn't show. I also started the cylinder brackets and managed to get them cut.

The first photo is my mishaps and as you can see there were two.

The cylinder bracket cad drawing glued to the two bits of brass sheet.

A look at the double back tape.

After cutting with the jewelers saw and filing.

After cleaning them up.

I'm thought it was time for a family shoot.


That's all for now and thanks for looking.

Don

[b.lindsey]

Bummer on the rods Don, but you do have those very nice cylinder brackets to show for it. Lots of filing I imagine.

Bill

[fumopuc]

Hi Don, also these days wil be followed by another, better one. Next time, when you start to remake the pump rod, you will know exactly what to do in a different way. Nice family shot.

[Tennessee Whiskey]

Dog, tough luck on the "practice" pieces, just write it off to setting up the machines. Now, the rest of it is sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeet. Your soldering, sawing, filing, and fabricating is top notch and the finish is, well, "pure Don"  .

Cletus

[Jasonb]

Family shot looks good Don, you are well on your way to completion, just as well as what I'm working on at the moment would make an ideal candidate for one of your little "brass Beuties" as it is from a Fairground ride

J

[maury]

Don, I just tuned in on this build. I am quite impressed with the quality and detail, very nice work. I poked through some of the previous pages, and can see I have been missing out on a great build.

I like the brass, especially on a steam engine, looks fantastic. I noticed your white out tip for silver soldering, don't do that a lot, but it always ends up a mess. I'll try the white out next time.

Do you plan to make a brass boiler and run it on steam?

maury

[Don1966]

Thanks Bill, Achim, Eric, Jason and Maury for looking and Commenting.

Bummer on the rods Don, but you do have those very nice cylinder brackets to show for it. Lots of filing I imagine.

Bill

Hi Bill and yes your right a lot of filing. Actually I don't believe there isn't a piece on this engine where it don't take a lot of filing. Thanks for following my brother.

Hi Don, also these days wil be followed by another, better one. Next time, when you start to remake the pump rod, you will know exactly what to do in a different way. Nice family shot.

Achim I thought that to but it didn't happen. This thing fought me tooth and nail. I managed to salvage one of the rods and made a brass end for it. But even that was a battle when I went to Tap the rod, the Tap broke. So much for that.

Dog, tough luck on the "practice" pieces, just write it off to setting up the machines. Now, the rest of it is sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeet. Your soldering, sawing, filing, and fabricating is top notch and the finish is, well, "pure Don"  .

Cletus

,
I guess I going to have to write it off to something my brother since today was no better. Thanks for following my brother.

Family shot looks good Don, you are well on your way to completion, just as well as what I'm working on at the moment would make an ideal candidate for one of your little "brass Beuties" as it is from a Fairground ride

J

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OK Jason since you let the cat out of the bag, what ride? Thanks for looking in mate.

Don, I just tuned in on this build. I am quite impressed with the quality and detail, very nice work. I poked through some of the previous pages, and can see I have been missing out on a great build.

I like the brass, especially on a steam engine, looks fantastic. I noticed your white out tip for silver soldering, don't do that a lot, but it always ends up a mess. I'll try the white out next time.

Do you plan to make a brass boiler and run it on steam?

maury

Maury thanks for checking in and thank you. No I do have a boiler Kit but don,t plan to run it on steam. It's more of a displace piece with a doll case cover. It will run on air after I have piped all the ports out.

Ok like I was saying today was not as good as it should of been. This Rod has been fighting me since I started it. I managed to salvage one of the rods after sleeping on it not without more grief. The tap broke when trying to tap the end of the rod. I managed to remove the piece.  Come to find out my tap drill was to small, a good reason to break a tap. When making the bearing block I over tighten the lathe Chuck when I reversed the block to under cut the opposite side. The only good thing today is the Rod is finished.  .

This photo is the rod and ruined bearing block.

And a family shot with the Rod in place on the air pump. I am still finding it hard to to find some .031" rubber or leather here for the air check flaps.


That's all for now and thanks for the continued support.

Don

[Dave Otto]

Beautiful Don just beautiful.

I have a small selection of leather in that thickness; send me a PM, I may be able to help you out.

Dave

[Steamer5]

Hi Don,
 This just get better & better! I've been quietly following along & your work is just mind blowing!

As to the rods, well you could leave one out for the workshop gnome, hopefully he or she will squirrel it away and not nick something more important, or send one to Jo so she can tempt hers for a swap for the lost casting.

Not sure how thick a bicycle inner tube is but you should be able to get one for free for the bike shop.

Now just waiting for completion & the all important video!

Cheers Kerrin

[Don1966]

Dave and Kerrin thanks for your comments and following. I didn't have much time in the shop today but I did get a start on the governor body. So we have a few photos for you.

I started with boring and threading the body.

And again some graving practice my favorite. Shaping the governor bottom.

I moved it over to the mill to bore the flange holes that need to be silver solder in place.

Next I fluxed and silver soldered the governor body with the flanges. The body after pickling.

The body after some cleaning.

I started making the governor cap next and first operation was to thread it to fit the body. Making use of the retracting tool holder and this tool works like a dream, makes you love threading.

A trial fit to of the governor body and it fits great.


That's all for now and I start a job tomorrow out of town so it may be next Monday before I get back to it.
Thanks for looking.

Don

[Tennessee Whiskey]

Dog, look at you ; threading in the hole,  outta the hole,  graving, and manipulating  molten solder, you da man  . You did two hole those flanges didn't you 

Cletus