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Re: Easton and Andersom beam engine at Bressingham.
« Reply #495 on: June 01, 2020, 10:14:32 PM »
Thank you for the explanation about belts and crowns - very informative (and logical)  :ThumbsUp:

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Re: Easton and Andersom beam engine at Bressingham.
« Reply #496 on: June 02, 2020, 01:22:44 AM »
Hi MJM , yes thanks for the explanation and I wonder if we could use the mantra " keep your governor belts properly centred". That would have to be in latin of course !!!  .......a bit like trust in god and keep your powder  dry ?!!    oops  there I go again!   


sitas servo tuo zona aes. ?!!! :lolb:

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Re: Easton and Andersom beam engine at Bressingham.
« Reply #497 on: June 02, 2020, 12:23:19 PM »
Hi Admiral, you are very welcome.  I am glad it was informative.  One of those very early lessons in machine dynamics that stuck, perhaps because the explanation actually made sense.

Hi Willy, I think it is more a case of keeping our pulleys and their shafts properly aligned, and the belts will look after the cantering all by themselves.  But I am not much of a Latin scholar.

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Re: Easton and Andersom beam engine at Bressingham.
« Reply #498 on: June 07, 2020, 01:49:56 AM »
So..the engine is finished and I now need to take it all apart and finish them properly.. then paint everything....I don't know how I will paint it yet as some of the stripes are only 27 thou " wide !? 

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Re: Easton and Andersom beam engine at Bressingham.
« Reply #499 on: June 07, 2020, 02:10:48 AM »
The engine looks magnificent! I'm sure you will figure out the painting, got to be an order of colors that would let you mask one side of a field at a time leaving the narrow line.

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Re: Easton and Andersom beam engine at Bressingham.
« Reply #500 on: June 07, 2020, 04:09:54 AM »
Hi Chris, Thanks, just had a look at the stripy paint and the thin lines are actually 7/32" wide which is actually 12 thou  ?!!! some of the lines are also curved  so will have to see what happens !!! :-\ :-\ :-\ However the more decimal places you work to ...the larger they become ?!! :ThumbsUp:

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Re: Easton and Andersom beam engine at Bressingham.
« Reply #501 on: June 07, 2020, 01:23:17 PM »
Hi Willy, the engine is looking great.  A real tribute to your skills.

Have you got the valve gear worked out or is that waiting until after painting?

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Re: Easton and Andersom beam engine at Bressingham.
« Reply #502 on: June 07, 2020, 02:45:42 PM »
HI MJM,    this is a video of the engine working with compressed air. so the motion work is working but needs finishing ...

Not a valid vimeo URL.     

so still lots of work to bring everything up to scratch !!

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Re: Easton and Andersom beam engine at Bressingham.
« Reply #503 on: June 11, 2020, 01:16:42 AM »
Starting to clean up the beam bearings prior to painting ..and taking a photo that you can enlarge shows up all the imperfections   so I will need to file up the top part again !!   also another modification to the Unimat lathe wit a larger handle and a proper ident for the new (Myford) scale wheel. rather the just a bit of paint with no marks !

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Re: Easton and Andersom beam engine at Bressingham.
« Reply #504 on: June 11, 2020, 09:46:17 AM »
Lovely work as ever Willy :ThumbsUp:        Terry

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Re: Easton and Andersom beam engine at Bressingham.
« Reply #505 on: June 12, 2020, 02:35:15 AM »
Hi Terry, thanks  and  I am now starting to paint the Beam bearings and am using this acid etch undercoat. Iusethis as the parts are brass and steel and this helps the colour coat stay on !! I also use artists Sable hair brushes as the hairs don't come out !!!

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Re: Easton and Andersom beam engine at Bressingham.
« Reply #506 on: June 15, 2020, 12:36:42 AM »
Ok  ..started painting the engine parts and its good to see all the minor imperfections disappear under a coat of paint..!!!

Also the car boots are open again u Der lockdown and I got this set of long shaft BA taps !! and also what is this piece of WKSP tooling found in a Blacksmith forge  ?? any ideas!!

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Re: Easton and Andersom beam engine at Bressingham.
« Reply #507 on: June 15, 2020, 02:56:43 AM »
Silly I am always amazed at the work you do. Love it.....  :Love:



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Re: Easton and Andersom beam engine at Bressingham.
« Reply #508 on: June 19, 2020, 02:11:11 AM »
Have now tidied up the entablature and undercoated it and also have this cover to keep the dust off...

hi Don...we are all doing  amazing work and I'm sure I would find what other people do quite challenging !!

Willy

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Re: Easton and Andersom beam engine at Bressingham.
« Reply #509 on: June 19, 2020, 03:31:21 AM »
Amazing how much just the single color changes the look, makes the details of the shape pop.

 

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