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Offline Jasonb

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Re: Woody - but not quite a Forest
« Reply #15 on: June 12, 2019, 07:11:52 PM »
The cylinder started out in much the same way as the Chuky with the ctr mark of the bore in the 50mm cast iron bar set to run true.



It was then faced, bored and a small spigot added to locate the cylinder head.



Reversed in the chuck the OD of the finned area was turned round and the end gently faced once the tailstock support had been removed.



Over to the mill and the port face was machined flat



Then to width



Followed by milling the port, this was sized for the flame licker version but could have been a lot smaller for the air/steam engine. I also had to subsequently drill and tap two M2.5 hols for the new valve block.



With a change to the horizontally mounted rotary table the rest of the lower part of the cylinder was milled round.



Now for the fun part of machining the spiral cooling fins. The rotary table from ARC has a 72:1 reduction so for ease of machining I opted for a 7.2mm pitch spiral which meant that for every turn of the hand wheel the milll table would need to move 0.1mm, as this was a bit coarse I opted for half a turn of the handle and 0.05mm x-axis feed per plunge cut of a 5.5mm 3-flute cutter. The two ends of the spiral were feathered out further with a 3.0mm cutter.

Just over 1000 plus plunge cuts later this is what I ended up with.





This picture shows the machining marks left by the plunge cuts which were cleaned up with a file and the whole "casting" given a once over with the Dremel to give it that cast look.



I think it could do with some legs next








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Re: Woody - but not quite a Forest
« Reply #16 on: June 13, 2019, 12:49:43 AM »
Nice bit of carving there Jason  :ThumbsUp:
I have been wondering how you made the cylinder.

Dave

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Re: Woody - but not quite a Forest
« Reply #17 on: June 13, 2019, 12:57:46 AM »
The spiral fins are spectacular, very well done!

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Re: Woody - but not quite a Forest
« Reply #18 on: June 13, 2019, 07:25:41 AM »
Thanks again for the comments.

I had finished this engine as a flame licker just before I got the CNC so if doing it again would certainly have used that to do the moulded profile around the base and the possible addition of a 4th axis would have made the spiral a simpler job.

Bit more about CNC when we come to the legs.

At least I only had to make one rather than a batch like Wayne did though in this case castings were probably the best option as he would have had to farm out the CNC work.

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Re: Woody - but not quite a Forest
« Reply #19 on: June 13, 2019, 07:47:22 AM »
that's machining Jason, congratulations !  thanks to share these pictures.

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Re: Woody - but not quite a Forest
« Reply #20 on: June 13, 2019, 02:47:43 PM »
It's a beautiful model engine Jason, well done!

As you have found, a horizontal format Flame licker/gulper is quite difficult to get running. And with the port so close to the flywheel the flame tends to get " wafted " everywhere so that cooler air enters and less of a vacuum is formed.

I was particularly pleased to see the pictures posted by Zephyrin showing Monsieur Forest's alternative
" rotary " ported ignition and exhaust system too.

A few will know that " carrier flame ignition " only works well with Hydrogen rich gases due to the rapid burn aspect. This system lasted a couple of decades before more effective means of ignition were used like hot tube and both low and high tension electric methods.

Non the less, it's a credit to you and you may be interested to know that when I first acquired my Leek number 3 atmospheric engine that had also been converted to run on compressed air!

Cheers Graham.

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Re: Woody - but not quite a Forest
« Reply #21 on: June 13, 2019, 03:14:51 PM »
Beautiful work Jason!

 How long did it take to cut the spiral on your mill? Is the flywheel a casting or a fabrication?

 John

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Re: Woody - but not quite a Forest
« Reply #22 on: June 13, 2019, 05:09:07 PM »
Thanks for the interest Graham, it certainly was a job to get a decent flame in the space available. Just about to post some photos in your Allman thread.

Probably took a couple of hours to do the main spiral then I needed a break. Came back and did the ends with the smaller cutter which were helical on one size and straight on the other so probably 3 hrs total machining.

I did rig up a simple depth stop on the quill so it was just a case of 1/2 turn of the rotary table, 0.05 on the DRO x axis then pull the lever and so on.
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Re: Woody - but not quite a Forest
« Reply #23 on: June 13, 2019, 08:14:30 PM »
Sorry, forgot to say the flywheel is the only casting used.

The "cylinder head" which incorporates the bearing supports started life as a piece of 5mm plate which was marked out and the bigger bits of waste material roughly sawn off. This was then clamped to a scrap of aluminium on the rotary table for drilling the various small holes and some to define the internal corners. Three of the holes were carried on at tapping size into the ali plate and then tapped so some additional screws could be used to hold the part while the main hole was bored.



The two clamps were then removed and the outside milled to shape.



The flame licker design needed a chamber for the spring and valve, this was bored out on the lathe and then transferred to the mill to shape the outside leaving  a flat area into which the exhaust stack would screw.



Jumping forwards a bit the parts including two bearing supports have been silver soldered together, bearing caps screwed on and the assembly mounted back onto the ali plate to bore first the top bearing hole.



And then the other, in both cases the bearing was used to gauge the size of the hole



Hard to resist a quick trial fit



A bit of milling and the bearing caps start to take shape



Then roughing out the curved top which was finished off with a file



Final bit of machining was to drill and tap two radial holes for the legs to fix to.



A quick talking to with a grinding point in the Dremel knocked off all the hard corners and added a bit of texture to get the cast look.


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Re: Woody - but not quite a Forest
« Reply #24 on: June 23, 2019, 08:05:40 PM »
The crank web was first turned from some 40mm bar.



before transferring to the mill to drill an dtap a hole for the crank pin, after which it was parted off a little over thickness and then milled to the counterbalanced shape.



After Loctiting to the 6mm shaft the assembly was put back in a collet to machine the web to thickness, I like to do it that way so that the face the pin will tighten up to is at perfect right angles to the shaft axis even if the loctite joint had of been a bit off. The two other fittings were not needed for the air/steam version.



Another curved spoke flywheel casting the same as I used on the Muncaster Entablature engine was soon machined up to a firm push fit on the crankshaft.



Time for a quick play to see how my suppliers bearings run, i can't really complain about this.

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« Last Edit: June 23, 2019, 08:16:26 PM by Jasonb »

 

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