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This project just keeps getting better and better. My only worry is that I don’t know what you can do for your next project that can top this one in complexity, design, and skill.
Design Pusher?......really?.....
Wow things are really moving along. My laptop died on May 18th and I just got it going again on Friday, Once I got it going again I started back in on your build, now I know what my elves were talking about, ( funny my computer was down but they somehow have a line to your shop elves), now I have to look up that wrench you did. Great work Chris.Gerald.
Also, I had mentioned some other projects in the works. I'm ready to show the first one - with a lot of incredible help, pictures, drawings, and advice from our 'Steamer' Dave here on the forum, who used to be the engineer on the steamer Sabino down at Mystic Seaport, I now have enough information to do justice to a scale model of the engine (two cylinder compound by JH Paine) in the Sabino. That engine is what got me hooked on steam engines as a kid when we visited the Mystic Seaport Museum a number of times - just fascinated me. Back in the early 1980's I did a RC model of the ship using plans that Mystic made available after they did a major restoration. Here are a couple pictures of it when I took it to Mystic, and got a chance to run it with the real one:Here it is sitting in the engine room during one of the cruises on the riverHere the captain and I were running it next to the real one. Then the next cruise out on the river, he called me up to the pilothouse and had me take the wheel for the cruise (with him right there the whole time of course). I remarked to him that it handled just like the model did...! Quite an experience!As I said, seeing that steam engine running was what got me hooked on steam, obviously I have not gotten over that yet! Anyway, recently Dave got me some great pictures of the machinery level down in the hull plus some pictures and sketches that another engineer, Greg, had done. Greg built a wonderful cutaway model of the engine, and his sketches were key to getting my design in Fusion going. Here is a screen shot of my CAD version from a week or so ago - more has been done on it since, adding final details and fixing goofs that Dave spotted.And a short video loop of it animated in Fusion, again this is from an earlier version, more done since then:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHRQoLjcbPYMany thanks to Dave for all his help, would not have been possible without it!! So, a number of you were asking what I would work on after the Holly engine is done (which will be a while), this engine is one that I've been wanting to build for a long long time, so it is up next in the queue.There is another one that will probably follow that, details to follow at a future date. Could be a big one.Chris
Looks like a great day out at the lake with the RC club! Thanks for sharing that with us.And Wow! That Sabino engine looks like yet another great project! I'll be watching, when you get to it, of course. Till then, I'll be excitingly following along on the continuing saga of the Holly Pumping Engine! You've got my forum viewing all lined up for me, don't you, Chris!Kim