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Conical cast pistons are much stronger
The bedplate designer must have been from Gusset City, Massachusetts!
So Chris....is the height difference/relationship mirror reversed on the opposite engine? [both lowers inboard facing each other ] ...I imaging they would have been cast steel ?Derek
With the enormous repetitious construction of all of those webs & gussets in the engine base beds .......not be a great contender for 3D printing?Do you use one of those metal dust or brass-filled polymer printing wires?Derek
Wow, what a great project and major undertaking!On the base plates, what are the dimensions of each section? If not too large, I'd be thinking lost resin casting in AL, but as that is what is currently on the brain....well its the current hammer so everything looks like a nail. Amazing stuff though, resin printing is so much finer resolution than filament.
The full size parts of the bed, due to the size and the technology of the time, would probably have been cast - most likely cast iron. With all the ribs, those parts probably gave some foundryman nightmares for weeks.Don