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Offline Alyn Foundry

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Re: Westbury's prototype for his Heinrici engine
« Reply #75 on: January 03, 2020, 06:45:52 PM »
Try a smear of Vaseline Jo.

It should temporarily seal it long enough for a short run.   ;)

Cheers Graham.

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Re: Westbury's prototype for his Heinrici engine
« Reply #76 on: January 05, 2020, 10:40:38 AM »
This morning Dave provided an expert finger to twirl the flywheels and off it went:

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp5s1il4L44" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp5s1il4L44</a>

and someone has some more castings to celebrate with :pinkelephant:

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Re: Westbury's prototype for his Heinrici engine
« Reply #77 on: January 05, 2020, 11:27:03 AM »
Very nice Jo.

He " Skips " again !!  ;)

Cheers Graham.

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Re: Westbury's prototype for his Heinrici engine
« Reply #78 on: January 05, 2020, 11:56:07 AM »
Thank you Graham and for the castings  :)

I still need to paint the flywheels red to match the original Flywheel and it is out of balance so the balance weight will also need to be fitted.

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Re: Westbury's prototype for his Heinrici engine
« Reply #79 on: January 05, 2020, 12:05:27 PM »
That's running very nicely and quiet too, bet you won't want to give it back, are you going to measure it up before it does?

Have you tried swapping the burner for the candle while it is going to see if that is enough to keep it ticking over?

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Re: Westbury's prototype for his Heinrici engine
« Reply #80 on: January 05, 2020, 12:30:27 PM »
I'm not giving it back  :-X

Ill try it on a candle once the paint is dry...

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Re: Westbury's prototype for his Heinrici engine
« Reply #81 on: January 05, 2020, 01:50:29 PM »
That looks very nice Jo.  Well done.

Glad to see the CHUK1 arrived safely (Give my regards to Dave).  Bit sooner than you expected!!

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Re: Westbury's prototype for his Heinrici engine
« Reply #82 on: January 05, 2020, 04:19:48 PM »
Glad to see the CHUK1 arrived safely (Give my regards to Dave).  Bit sooner than you expected!!

Thanks for picking those up Colin, Dave's visit today was unplanned they should have been arriving in about three weeks time.

Surus was very pleased with his new castings, especially his Sphinx nameplates, one of which he has snaffled off to his casting store to make up for the fact that I have the Sphinx casting set out in the Workshop. The down side is he has been reminded about them  :facepalm:

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Re: Westbury's prototype for his Heinrici engine
« Reply #83 on: January 05, 2020, 04:45:02 PM »
Running nicely Jo :ThumbsUp:      Terry

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Re: Westbury's prototype for his Heinrici engine
« Reply #84 on: January 05, 2020, 05:54:55 PM »
Great to see it running as it should  :whoohoo:

 

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