Join the club.........My progress is pretty poor too. I am now down to only having to go to work for two days a week, but even with all that extra free time I dont seem to get anything done in the workshop.

Too many hobbies is the problem, I play electric guitar in a rock orchestra, so have to practice for that on many evenings, when the sun is out (or rather when it's not raining) I am usually off out on my Triumph Bonneville somewhere. I still have to find some time to go out in the Morris traveller for trips out with the wife, then there is shopping, decorating, gardening, pressure washing the yard, walking the dog etc etc. And now to top it all off I have bought a piano keyboard and am learning to play that as well.

So if anyone is expecting to see Agnes running anytime soon, you might be dissappointed. 

Phil

Hi Achem, always good to see the story complete. 

Perhaps you could use rechargeable batteries and connect some diodes so the generator charges the batteries when it runs.  Then when you switch on the light it would not really be fake.

It’s been a wonderful build to follow.  Thanks for showing it so well.

MJM460

It seems to me that there is a distinct lack of common sense being applied, together with the application of "why make something simple, straightforward and accessible" when, with a little effort, you can make it unnecessarily complex, difficult, hard to access and downright awkward to all, and secretative to boot.

Unfortunately, that attitude appears all too often these days.

Chris

Hello Willie,

Thanks.

I call it a rotary slide valve.
I saw the inspiration for this valve on steam engines in steamships. And there are old pictures where such a valve is installed. I think it's a valve for quick maneuvers on not so big steamships.

Michael

Very nice hobbing, Chris! That is one big worm gear! 

Kim