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Re: Lane and Bodley 400hp Corliss
« Reply #360 on: February 22, 2020, 09:41:51 PM »
Simon, I've been tuning now and then. I like the work you are doing, very nice machining.

I was wondering how you made the brass ball ends in the linkage, and put such a nice finish on them? I need to make a bunch of similar parts for the Dickkson catwalk rail. Wonder if you could show how you did it. I was thinking about buying balls, drilling them, and soldering them to a post, but yours look so much better.

maury

Maury,

The ball ends for the linkages are a complete cheat - purchased some balls from ebay, held in a collet in the lathe and drilled.  Piece of brass bar Loctitie'd into the ball, hold the bar in the dividing head to mill the flats and drill the central hole, then back in the lathe to drill and tap the end of the bar.

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Re: Lane and Bodley 400hp Corliss
« Reply #361 on: February 23, 2020, 06:28:03 PM »
All back together and working a lot better  :)

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

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Re: Lane and Bodley 400hp Corliss
« Reply #362 on: February 23, 2020, 06:44:30 PM »
Beautifully done!  The sound is great too.

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Re: Lane and Bodley 400hp Corliss
« Reply #363 on: February 23, 2020, 07:42:57 PM »
 :ThumbsUp: :ThumbsUp: :ThumbsUp: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn:

Who needs a clock when you have a well governed Corliss engine!
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Re: Lane and Bodley 400hp Corliss
« Reply #364 on: February 23, 2020, 08:28:52 PM »
Thanks guys!  I'm actually planning to add an O ring to the inside of the dampers to cushion their closing and eliminate that knocking sound which is being amplified by the baseboard.

Simon
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Re: Lane and Bodley 400hp Corliss
« Reply #365 on: February 23, 2020, 09:37:45 PM »
Impressive Simon.

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Re: Lane and Bodley 400hp Corliss
« Reply #366 on: February 28, 2020, 03:28:35 PM »
Great Job Simon, Very well done.

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Re: Lane and Bodley 400hp Corliss
« Reply #367 on: December 20, 2020, 04:41:41 PM »
Not been a huge amount of progress this year for a number of reasons but I have picked up the cudgel recently and done some machining and some painting.  I was concerned that the cylinder block was going to look a bit bland and featureless so I machined a rebate and made up some dummy covers from plasti-card to be secured by some 12ba screws.

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Re: Lane and Bodley 400hp Corliss
« Reply #368 on: December 20, 2020, 05:02:15 PM »
Beautiful !

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Re: Lane and Bodley 400hp Corliss
« Reply #369 on: December 29, 2020, 04:42:37 PM »
Hi Simon,
Glad to se you back to finishing up the Corliss.  The added detail on the cylinder looks really nice.  Well done!  The cylinder head detail is what I dreamed of mine looking like but didn't accomplish.  Some things are a lot easier to draw or model on the computer than to machine.

Stay well in the coming year and I will look forward to seeing more of the finishing detail on your model.
Dennis

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Re: Lane and Bodley 400hp Corliss
« Reply #370 on: December 29, 2020, 05:13:24 PM »
Hi Simon ,  looking good and there is no rush with this hobby of ours !!  and do racing car pistons really cost 5,000 £ each ??

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Re: Lane and Bodley 400hp Corliss
« Reply #371 on: December 29, 2020, 05:53:10 PM »
Thanks for the comments guys.

Willy - don't know about the pistons but a lot of the gears are in that kind of price range.  With the cost cap coming we are having to learn some new ways of doing things but several times now when we have tried to make components cheaper by changing the design they have ended up more expensive!

Simon.
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