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Re: Warrior Double acting twin cylinder steam engine from castings
« Reply #105 on: March 11, 2024, 02:17:04 AM »
The Eycrometer, love it!

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Re: Warrior Double acting twin cylinder steam engine from castings
« Reply #106 on: March 12, 2024, 02:13:04 AM »
Hi "C", thanks , I do have a pair of Eyecrometers that are fortunately a matching pair ?!!! Both Conrods are now made and the crosshead parts now need to be matched up to the piston rod. This is where the  " FITTER " comes in and there is enough  meat on the top of the Conrod to create a good fit ...

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Re: Warrior Double acting twin cylinder steam engine from castings
« Reply #107 on: March 13, 2024, 02:24:41 AM »
The fitting for the crosshead part has now been sawn and filed up and has been assembled to the standard to check for the clearances. these seam to look ok and now to calculate the crosshead pin for the correct piston travel.

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Re: Warrior Double acting twin cylinder steam engine from castings
« Reply #108 on: March 13, 2024, 02:40:59 AM »
 :popcorn: :popcorn:

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Re: Warrior Double acting twin cylinder steam engine from castings
« Reply #109 on: March 15, 2024, 01:55:44 AM »
Hi "C" thanks and more pics of the procedure for marking out the con rod prior to sawing out the slot  ... the slot at the top of the rod follows the contour of the bottom flange. this is marked out using the heavy steel block and a magnet to hold the small square against the top of the conrod. also a key seat rule  ( some brass angle ) is used to scribe the lines for the hacksaw to follow......

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Re: Warrior Double acting twin cylinder steam engine from castings
« Reply #110 on: March 15, 2024, 08:21:35 AM »
Hi Willy, great to follow your progress again.
Kind Regards
Achim

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Re: Warrior Double acting twin cylinder steam engine from castings
« Reply #111 on: March 15, 2024, 02:46:20 PM »
Hello Willy,

I'm glad that you still work a lot with the saw and file.
Traditional handcraft and I think it goes well with model steam engines.


Best regards Michael

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Re: Warrior Double acting twin cylinder steam engine from castings
« Reply #112 on: March 16, 2024, 02:51:34 AM »
Hi Achim and Michael thanks for the comments and I do find that as filing is quite a slow process one can  keep track of what is happening with the parts  !! Both condos have been made and coupled up to the crossheads and have been connected to the standards ..quite a bit of fitting has been done to get everything running true and the motion is running freely.

Willy
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Re: Warrior Double acting twin cylinder steam engine from castings
« Reply #113 on: March 19, 2024, 01:49:07 AM »
The next job is the eccentrics and the bronze eccentric castings are drilled in one piece with the 6BA drill  and then sawn apart and one of the top holes is drilled the clearance size and then the two halves are joined together using the tapping drill to hold the two halves correctly in position and then tapped. this ensures that the two halves will stay correctly positioned when bored out to the 5/8ths dimension.

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Re: Warrior Double acting twin cylinder steam engine from castings
« Reply #114 on: March 21, 2024, 01:54:48 AM »
I have bored and faced the bronze eccentric straps   using a small independent 4 jar chuck with a perspex backing piece to give clearance for the facing .. so next job is the eccentrics them selves ...  also someone has shown me this item ?? he does not know what it is or used for ... the diameter is about 1 1/2" so could be a gauge to measure the length of some sting ??!!! as it is coiled around it up the spiral !!  any ideas ?

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Re: Warrior Double acting twin cylinder steam engine from castings
« Reply #115 on: March 23, 2024, 03:07:35 AM »
Te eccentrics have been made ..first the stock has been tried at the end to get a good fit for the strap  and this dimension is then used to turn the actual slot for it. the stock is then removed and two holes drilled and tapped to attach to the 1/4 " Stock to attach to the lathe to turn down the eccentric part for the crankshaft adjustment grub screw.  Also the brass item is a fuze from an artillery shell ??
Willy

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Re: Warrior Double acting twin cylinder steam engine from castings
« Reply #116 on: March 23, 2024, 03:26:33 AM »
Nice!   :popcorn: :popcorn:

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Re: Warrior Double acting twin cylinder steam engine from castings
« Reply #117 on: March 23, 2024, 01:35:03 PM »
Hello Willy,

It looks good how you build the eccentrics.
It could actually be a detonator from a grenade. There are similar pictures on the internet and there seem to be people who collect things like this.

https://www.muna-rheinland.de/c/zuender


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Re: Warrior Double acting twin cylinder steam engine from castings
« Reply #118 on: March 23, 2024, 05:47:26 PM »
Somehow I don't  think I'd fancy machining something that may have started out life as a detonator or fuse.
Don't think I'd fancy making a collection of them either.

In my working life I had dealings with explosives for rock blasting, and that was enough for me. Especially when 3 tons of commercial explosive went off when I wasn't expecting it to.

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Re: Warrior Double acting twin cylinder steam engine from castings
« Reply #119 on: March 24, 2024, 07:47:16 AM »
Nice work on the excentrics  :praise2:
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Roger

 

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