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Hullo Chris......following on ...is this a 2:1 ratio example pump?.......[3/4" diameter steam x 3/8" diameter water?] ..........Derek
Chris,I know you are already into this...but take a look at these beauties. Maybe the details will be of some inspiration. The first one is so darn elegant!https://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb/antique-machinery-and-history/early-new-york-simplex-steam-pumps-388252/
Lovely work at a blistering pace again Takes me back to apprentice days...there was a section for Weir pumps down one side of the turbine shop, so definitely following Terry
I was thinking something along the lines of this to him and the elves busy for a while..[youtube1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4o5StO9BrE[/youtube1]
Hi Chris, do you have one of those Dremel engravers? the ones I mean are for engraving initials on tools and things. Anyway, these can be used to engrave a cast like finish in pockets and recesses on machined parts. If you work back and forth one way, overlapping to cover the whole surface, then do the same at 90 degrees to the first pass, it can produce an effect very much like sand cast metal. Just an idea. I find doing this op relaxing after doing more mentally strenuous machine ops earlier in an evening.
What happened here Chris .... your builds use to entertain the rest of us for months at least But now it's only a matter of days - hardly time to notice that you have started, before you're finished with this one Is it going to stay bling, so to speak, or are you give it some patina / scenery ...?Per
Awesome and very impressive Dog, your the man...... Don