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Offline maury

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Re: Gothic Beam Steam Engine Build
« Reply #15 on: June 07, 2015, 06:07:31 PM »
More progress on the Gothic base. Having fitted the base top plate into the base assembly, it was time to bore, drill, and tap holes. Lots of them.

Then on to making the bottom plate. I was going to skip this, but realized the High Pressure pump mounts to it. Actually it adds to the model nicely because there is a lot of detail internal to the base.  There is a baffle plate in the base which encloses the open area housing the HP pump and crank clearance.

This completes the base parts. Next I think I'll tackle the steam valving system. Probably after I get back from Coolspring next week.

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Re: Gothic Beam Steam Engine Build
« Reply #16 on: June 07, 2015, 09:46:57 PM »
I have that set of castings, so I'll be following this build with interest.

Do you have the "Live Steam" magazines where this build was serialized?  I found a bunch of interesting tips there...

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Re: Gothic Beam Steam Engine Build
« Reply #17 on: June 08, 2015, 01:03:38 AM »
Mike, thanks for the reply.

No, I don't have the issue of Live Steam. What issue is it? I may try to buy one.

Why don't you break out your castings and start cutting metal. They will never be an engine sitting under your bench.

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Re: Gothic Beam Steam Engine Build
« Reply #18 on: July 30, 2015, 02:30:33 AM »
Well, Folks, I've been off the grid on this project for a while. There have been a lot of things going on in my shop, including recovering from a crashed computer on my CNC. That is still in progress, but I'm at least up and running now.

I am currently working on the steam chests and valve assembly. There is a lot of work on this assembly, so I decided to tackle it after finishing the base. The steam chest castings have a lot of holes, and come angled steam passages needing special setups. So, here is the first bunch of pics.

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Re: Gothic Beam Steam Engine Build
« Reply #19 on: July 30, 2015, 02:35:22 AM »
I have been trying to post my pictures with this response, but I keep getting a server error. Is there an issue with the board?

Just tried again, 4 .jpg pictures about 200k each.

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Re: Gothic Beam Steam Engine Build
« Reply #20 on: July 30, 2015, 04:20:21 AM »
I'm late getting started on this one, but I really like beam engines and so am here for the fun.

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Re: Gothic Beam Steam Engine Build
« Reply #21 on: July 30, 2015, 12:32:56 PM »
Hi Maury,
I don't know what the picture posting problem is but I experienced the same thing awhile back. For about a week I had to post pictures from my Photobucket account. Eventually it came back but when I posted the query on the board nobody had an answer for it.
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Re: Gothic Beam Steam Engine Build
« Reply #22 on: July 30, 2015, 01:34:16 PM »
Alan, good to have you aboard.

George, I hope the .jpg errors go away, or there won't be any pictures in my posts any more.

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Re: Gothic Beam Steam Engine Build
« Reply #23 on: July 30, 2015, 01:34:52 PM »
Another try at the pics.

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Re: Gothic Beam Steam Engine Build
« Reply #24 on: July 30, 2015, 01:39:56 PM »
Maury,
Try posting them one at a time as you are doing. I can't explain the issue either, but when it has happened to me, I sometimes found that if I was posting multiple pictures it was only one of them causing the error. Not much help I know but give it a try. Then the issue becomes one of why that one picture is causing the error message.

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Re: Gothic Beam Steam Engine Build
« Reply #25 on: July 30, 2015, 01:45:49 PM »
Bill, I hope this gets fixed, it will be painfull posting 1 at a time.

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Re: Gothic Beam Steam Engine Build
« Reply #26 on: July 30, 2015, 01:46:17 PM »
Try more now.

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Re: Gothic Beam Steam Engine Build
« Reply #27 on: July 30, 2015, 01:47:51 PM »
Try again.

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Re: Gothic Beam Steam Engine Build
« Reply #28 on: July 30, 2015, 01:51:11 PM »
Well something worked. Did you do anything different?

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Re: Gothic Beam Steam Engine Build
« Reply #29 on: July 30, 2015, 03:56:04 PM »
Bill,  no, same thing, the problem just went away.

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