Zee Needs Popcorn

[Brian Rupnow]

Zee--that flywheel looks familiar. Looks good!!!

[zeeprogrammer]

Thanks all. I do feel kinda good.

I can't believe it! I left out the crosshead guide! Argh.

Did you really look for it? Sure the shop gnomes didn't run off with it since you wouldn't give them any of my recipe cookies?!   

No no. I know exactly where it is. Near the lathe when I was trial fitting while making the cylinder cover.

My shop gnomes (or rather gnome...or rather me) knows about your cookie recipe and prefers T's.
Apologies...but that's just how it is.
If you want her recipe...we can discuss price.

[crueby]

Glad the other part is not missing. The family-o-parts is looking great!
 

[Steamer5]

Hi Zee,
 Great family shot!

Looks like you are settling into this retirement lack quite well!

How about a photo or three of T ‘s cookies in the food channel......then we can run a comparison.....would be better if we all could do a taste test, but that’s likely to use up a years worth of shop funds!

Cheers Kerrin

[Kim]

You're making great progress, Zee!
And I love the family shot, even if one member is AWOL
Kim

[b.lindsey]

Great family shot Zee. The parts are all looking great, including the missing crosshead guide 

Bill

[zeeprogrammer]

A bit more work. Since the family shot I got a few nuts and pipe nipples done, 2 of the 3 crankshaft parts, the piston rod, crosshead, and I'm nearly finished with the control rod.

The only picture of the crosshead turned out too blurry to show.

1st pic shows the 1st taper of the control rod.
2nd pic shows both tapers after a little sanding to clean it up. I was not at all happy with the finish before sanding.
3rd pic shows the control rod after squaring both ends. I still have to bring one end to size.

4th pic is my usual disaster shot. I milled one side, flipped the part over, and...here the expected text is "milled the other side to size". But my flipper didn't work and I ended up milling the same side twice.  Might still work and might even be hidden within the crosshead. We'll see.

5th pic is a family shot showing all the new parts below the base (along with the crosshead guide that I'd forgotten in the 1st family shot).

Yes yes. I know it's not my flipper's fault. It's the flipper's controller.

[90LX_Notch]

Looking really good Carl.

-Bob

[Kim]

Nice looking rod there Zee!  Love the tapering.  I'm betting you can salvage that.  You'll figure out a way
And if you don't, the second time goes much faster
Kim

[crueby]

The family shots just keep getting better!


 

[b.lindsey]

The tapers look great. As for the flipper issue, that may be trickier. Hopefully it can be salvaged and go into the first try category, but time will tell. One thing you could do in such cases is blue or otherwise mark the four faces needing machining so you will know which have been done ....then again hindsight is 20/20.

Bill

[zeeprogrammer]

As for the flipper issue, that may be trickier. Hopefully it can be salvaged and go into the first try category, but time will tell.

Indeed. One of the things that's new to me...I'm making parts and not trying to get to hung up on their being right the first time.
I have a feeling that even if they're 'right' the first time...there's always some adjusting, fettling if you will, to get them to work together.
So I'm making parts the best I can and when it comes time to assemble, if I have to remake a part (or parts), that's fine.

I'm feeling more success and having fun...and as we all know...that's the point.

So far. 

As optimistic as I always try to be...there's the pessimist in me. And I do feel there's positives in having a touch of pessimism. 
Sometimes called my conscience.

[10KPete]

Well said! That's the attitude that works for me, too. I'd just never thought about it enough to put it into such elegant words.

And those parts look grand!

Pete

[Kim]

As optimistic as I always try to be...there's the pessimist in me. And I do feel there's positives in having a touch of pessimism. 
Sometimes called my conscience.

Zee, even your pessimism glass is half-full! 

Kim

[Art K]

Zee,
Had great relaxing weekend in the great north woods. Technology doesn't work there. Internet what's that, grrr.  New cell has no coverage either. Smart coments will have to be left unsaid due to out of placeness when I finally read them. According to the new cell all looks great. Oh did I say that we came home to find we had no phone( land line) internet ect. New router will be here Wednesday. At least I know what I'm missing.
Art

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