New Mills Pumping Station

[steam guy willy]

hi Roger ...yes of course..

willy

[steam guy willy]

Hi , I am now back in the workshop after being very busy on the allotment getting a tan and editing the local Organic group newsletter !! also catching up with lots of household jobs ..also trying to cope with all this hot weather and visiting Museums and other summer stuff...... so... watch this space ...

Willy

[crueby]

Excellent, sounds like a busy and hopefully fun summer. Getting more popcorn ready...

[steam guy willy]

Hi "C" , thanks and there will be fine hot weather to come .. I have acquired some aluminium to make the base  and there were originally steam engines included on this ..however they have long gone. there are still  mock ups of what they might've looked like .  It looks as though the configuration was a tandem compound ??...However the only photo I have shows just I cylinder ??

Willy

[steam guy willy]

The aluminium base plate has beensawnoff the slab and after centering the vice the sawn edge is milled down to size...the next step in to mark it out for shaping up ...

Willy

[MJM460]

Hi Willy, good to see you back making progress again.  Glad to find that you were gainfully occupied over the summer.

Is it possible that the two cylinders you were showing in the previous post were a steam cylinder in tandem with a compressor cylinder? 

And did you work out the valve arrangement in the compressor cylinder?

MJM460

[steam guy willy]

Hi MJM, surviving the latest heatwave at the moment . Will be back in the WKSP soon hopefully....

Willy

[steam guy willy]

So ready to mark out and machine the aluminium base plate...

Willy

[steam guy willy]

The base has now had the outside profile milled ,,,first with an end mill to reduce the bulk of the metal and then finished with the Ball endmill. 

Willy

[steam guy willy]

The recess for the crank is now drilled out by chain drilling and then sawn out with the abrafile Hacksaw. the slots for the bearing adjustments are milled out ready to fit the stops that would have been part of the casting . The Hacksaw is an old  "Eclipse" No 60B with the abrafile notch parts .

Willy.

[Admiral_dk]

It is good to see progress on this thread again Willy     

Per

[steam guy willy]

Thanks Per , and good to be back in the WKSP.....

"W"

[steam guy willy]

The base plate buffers for the main bearings are being made from brass and they are bolted in place. they will also be held in place as they protrude under the bearings and will be held down firmly when they are bolted in place.

[steam guy willy]

The other buffer stops are now in position but there is more profiling to do ....
Willy

[crueby]

Excellent, really coming together...