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Offline Craig DeShong

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Re: Easton and Andersom beam engine at Bressingham.
« Reply #135 on: February 14, 2019, 01:52:45 PM »
Hate to hear you're laid-up.  Get well soon, I want to see this beam engine finished and running!
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Re: Easton and Andersom beam engine at Bressingham.
« Reply #136 on: February 14, 2019, 08:11:48 PM »
Get well soon Willy. I was in the same position a year ago. Now well into recovery the steroids they gave me gave me nearly every side effect in the book. Finished them at last,,thank goodness. Am back in my shop making scrap out of perfectly good bar stock :thinking: :headscratch: One bright side, I gave up smoking, the money I save all goes into workshop :cartwheel:  :old: :DrinkPint:
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Re: Easton and Andersom beam engine at Bressingham.
« Reply #137 on: February 19, 2019, 01:20:12 AM »
Hi, I am now out of hospital but am feeling quite weak and have been told it will be 6 weeks before i am fully recovered ,  So will be spending my time drawing the parts and thinking about stuff.....

Willy

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Re: Easton and Andersom beam engine at Bressingham.
« Reply #138 on: February 19, 2019, 01:39:33 AM »
Glad you are recovering, take it easy till you get your strength back. 

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Re: Easton and Andersom beam engine at Bressingham.
« Reply #139 on: February 19, 2019, 02:01:05 AM »
Hang in there, Willy! We're pulling for you.

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Re: Easton and Andersom beam engine at Bressingham.
« Reply #140 on: February 19, 2019, 03:40:16 AM »
Hi Willy, good to hear that you are home.  You will miss the nurses, but it’s never good to need to know them professionally.

Thinking about stuff, eh?  Obviously more thermodynamics.  But you might be able to do some filing indoors, or laying out parts ready for the first day out to the shop.

Hope that you are back to 100% soon.

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Re: Easton and Andersom beam engine at Bressingham.
« Reply #141 on: February 20, 2019, 05:00:23 PM »
Thanks for all the replies ............

Willy

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Re: Easton and Andersom beam engine at Bressingham.
« Reply #142 on: February 22, 2019, 11:48:24 PM »
I was tidying up the WKSP ready to start work and i dropped my box of taps....however because they are all colour coded it was quite quick to sort them out and now they are all ensconced back in their respective spaces...!! I use the resister colour code cable idents....

Willy

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Re: Easton and Andersom beam engine at Bressingham.
« Reply #143 on: February 23, 2019, 06:42:44 AM »
Color coding your taps is a pretty spiffy idea!.  Do you only code the major diameter? Or do you also code the thread spacing too?
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Re: Easton and Andersom beam engine at Bressingham.
« Reply #144 on: February 23, 2019, 09:45:09 AM »
Glad to see you back in the workshop Willy but take it easy till you are back to full strength.

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Re: Easton and Andersom beam engine at Bressingham.
« Reply #145 on: February 23, 2019, 04:24:14 PM »
Color coding your taps is a pretty spiffy idea!.  Do you only code the major diameter? Or do you also code the thread spacing too?
Kim

Hi Kim, the colour coding is just on the BA Number taps  from 0BA to 12BA.....

Willy

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Re: Easton and Andersom beam engine at Bressingham.
« Reply #146 on: February 23, 2019, 07:57:50 PM »
Good to hear you're feeling up to some workshop time Willy  :ThumbsUp:
Take it steady though  :)

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Re: Easton and Andersom beam engine at Bressingham.
« Reply #147 on: March 07, 2019, 01:35:50 AM »
Back at work but taking it easy.......starting on the beam  ... this is of wrought iron built up construction rather than cast, so quiet easy to fabricate......I am making a template to begin with..........

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Re: Easton and Andersom beam engine at Bressingham.
« Reply #148 on: March 07, 2019, 02:06:56 AM »
Must be good to get back into the shop again, just dont push it too fast yet. Welcome back!

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Re: Easton and Andersom beam engine at Bressingham.
« Reply #149 on: March 07, 2019, 04:05:38 PM »
Must be good to get back into the shop again, just dont push it too fast yet. Welcome back!

Hi Chris, thanks and am spending time actually studying the photos and finding differences in the drawings and the engine... It is quite important to have photos from all the angles ...x  y  z   as have noticed that some of the profiles are convex rather than concave !! When you look at curves at an angle it is possible to see them incorrectly !!
Willy

 

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