A simple Vertical Steam Engine.

[crueby]

Those are probably the replacement hand pieces Chris. The one I was talking about is angled on the end and uses the latch type burrs that were also available from Foredom. It looks much more like the handpieces that dentists use. If I remember I will take a picture of it tonight.

Bill

Gotcha - those are available from other makers, but they start at close to $600.      Cheaper to buy a Turbocarver instead.

[Jo]

You don't think they will get any cheaper 

It would cost us in the UK almost what they are charging for each of the handsets to post one in country. How is any trader in the UK supposed to compete In the end there won't be any local traders  like most don't bother coming to the shows either

Jo

[Jo]

Looking at the drawings there is no drawing for the cladding  The Parts list mention a bit of Ali plate so I decided ok go for that. Some nice man had donated a couple of 1mm sheets of Ali to my stores so they were dusted off for use.

Having measured the cylinder height it was then a case of cutting the Ali to height plus a smidgen, before draw filing the top and bottom surfaces. To get the length I use a piece of paper as a template and then cut and draw filed the two ends. Having identified the locations of the two flat bits the Ali could be rolled to shape.

with the thickness of the cladding known it was time to reduce the width of the valve port face and to drill and tap for the exhaust. The cladding rapped round the cylinder and screwed into place allowed for the holes for the drain cocks to be drilled while on the cylinder.  The cladding is going to leave a nasty gap around the exhaust flange  the swan has a spacer  I think I will be making three spacers..... Which of course are a really sensible thickness of 7.15mm so time to use some of my special (no expense incurred  ) brown protected BMS and to take it to thickness.

Jo

[Jasonb]

Did you not use that nice new (to you) bandsaw to cut up the sheet? Sun was out today so you would not have had to pay for the lecky

[Jo]

At 10mm per stroke of the hacksaw it was not worth the time to go and change the skip blade to a metal cutting one.

The free lecky was keeping the workshop at a healthy 20 deg C.

Jo

[Jo]

One exhaust packing piece done and  it does sort out that nasty gap you normally get with the cladding sheet around the exhaust fange.

And Spring has sprung in my garden I have my first two snowdrops out 

Jo

[crueby]

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And Spring has sprung in my garden I have my first two snowdrops out 

Jo

Wow - I knew you drove on the 'wrong' side of the road, but your seasons are backwards too!   

[MJM460]

Hi Jo,

Didn't notice anything wrong with the season.  But that is a nice job of the cladding.  What size are those screws holding it in place?  And how much do they clear the corner stud holes by?

MJM460

[Jasonb]

Gil Garceau has just posted a video of a Stuart built version of the Swan with all the pumps on it, may be of interest

https://www.smokstak.com/forum/showthread.php?t=173492

[Jo]

Those are 6 BA screws MJM. Sadly the last of the brass screws I have as I gave buckets of them away and forgot to keep any for myself  So I will have to make some.


Thanks for the link. That engine has globe valves 

Jo

[Bluechip]

Those are 6 BA screws MJM. Sadly the last of the brass screws I have as I gave buckets of them away and forgot to keep any for myself  So I will have to make some.

Jo

Probably at variance with your 'inchy' lifestyle, but CPC have some fairly cheap M4 Brass Panheads.

http://cpc.farnell.com/w/search/prl/results?brand=concordia-technologies&st=brass+pan+head

Pretty gruesome as supplied but a quick swipe 'siding and facing' the heads in the lathe and they look much better.

Only M4 though ... 

Frozen fingers here ... back to my Bovril .... 

Dave

[Jo]

Frozen fingers here ... back to my Bovril .... 

Dave

Well if you will live in the chilly north 

Glorious sun here glinting off some 6BA domed head screws I have just found    So chromed ones or brassy ones  One second you don't have any, next you have to choose.

Jo

[b.lindsey]

I like the brass Jo, but then again they are softer depending on what the base metal of the plated ones is.

Bill

[Gas_mantle]

Jo,

I get a bit confused with all these engines you build at once and not always sure whether you are building a Swan, a 5a or a 5a twin (or all of them  )

Anyway I thought this monster might be of interest to you 

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfkcGgZYKp4" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfkcGgZYKp4</a>

[Jo]

Thanks Peter,

The 5A is the single cylinder, the Swan is the double version of the 5A shown in that video. I am building one of each  .

That video shows all of the condenser stuff on the end of the engine but as it never really worked I won't be fitting it

Jo