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

Kim

Great work on this build! I'm curious about this what type of valve this is called?  Thanks

Quote from: fumopuc on April 17, 2024, 08:30:51 AM

Quote from: crueby on April 17, 2024, 01:29:23 AM

Sounds like an impressive engine!  Do you have a picture of what it will look like?
Watching along!

Hi Chris, thanks for popping in.
here are some pictures and videos also.
https://www.engineman.de/product/plan-12-cylinder-v-engine/?lang=en
There was a video of an American guy at YouTube, showing a test run at a show, but I can´t find it anymore.

Wow - thats fantastic!

I have just find the missed video again.
https://youtu.be/mNPYjf1RIko?si=37hA112K4uVOxeJo

Yes, that's a bit crazy with the name of the condensate taps.
I only know this name “hissing cocks” from the Oktant model building catalog. (A model shop for model steam engines from Hamburg.)
But in old catalogs for valves and taps they are just called cylinder drain taps. It even has to be translated as hissing rooster 🐓. ( Zischhahn )   And we call the conical thing that rotates the chicken. 

Michael

The translation software can be funny sometimes. I remember years ago my mother was doing some geneology research on family in Germany, and the translation for one of the guys names came through as 'Cement Louse'.    Sort of glad the papers didn't include a picture of him...   

This afternoon I shaped a piece of the Acme threaded rod to make the worm gear. The screws will locate it on flat spots on the rod, they need to be shortened.

For those who may be wondering why I 3D printed some of the rope and chain drum parts, this may help explain my thoughts. Here are the pieces for just the chain drums, one set assembled, one set aprt on the table, plus the worm wheel with its printed side panels. They would have required about 18" of 6" bar to make from scratch, not even counting the rope drums shown previously. Also, the shapes needed would have been very hard to do without CNC, especially around the chain path on the drum in the upper left corner of the picture. There will be a number of metal parts added to these to make the ratchets and brake bands. The main drums spin freely on the shaft, while the worm wheel and the flanged plates, like the one just above the '9' on the tape measure, are fixed to the shaft. A set of ratchets will sit inside the slots in that plate, with the open ring in the upper center pushing one end of the ratchets up into recesses in the chain drums to make them move. An interesting arrangement, allowing the chain drum to freewheel when desired, with speed slowed as needed by a brake band around one end. The plans showed all the pieces needed, but it was finding a patent about the mechanism that taught me how it all comes together.


So, next up will be the three upright brackets that sit on bases already on the deck plate, and hold up the main shaft of the chain drum assembly. Going to take some plotting and planning to work out how to make those brackets. Two of those brackets are visible in this CAD view, in pink on the right hand end, either side of the orange chain drum with the handle sticking out the top (which controls the ratchet engagement). The third one is over on the left end but obscured by all the other parts. The brackets have a lot of curves and flanges around the edges, I need to decide what to mill out and what gets bolted/soldered on.