The Bolton -Bertinat -Bailey Triple expansion engine

[steam guy willy]

The con rod components  are now ready to be silver soldered. I have also drilled the rods to try and lighten the engine as much as possible ...
Willy

[steam guy willy]

The con rods are now silver soldered int the big ends and have been turned on the Unimat lathe ready to be attached to the small ends ...

Willy

[Michael S.]

Willy, the result looks good. Now to work on the other two. Will the other side be soldered as well?

Best regards, Michael

[steam guy willy]

Willy, the result looks good. Now to work on the other two. Will the other side be soldered as well?

Best regards, Michael
Hi "M"..yes and I need to spend more time on this now the autumn is upon us  !! I keep referring to your build but now some of the pics are not available in " My Location " ??!!
Cheers
willy

[steam guy willy]

I have soldered on the small end and used the Myford to turn the top part
. I have used the 4 jaw chuck and I centred the 1/2". X 3/4" stuck using the cross slide and its accurate dial , rather than a DTI on the 4 faces ..the centering for this part is not too critical and it is quite quick and easy to do ..
so slowly getting progress .....
Willy

[steam guy willy]

More turning and filing on the con rods.....

Willy

[Roger B]

That is certainly an interesting way of making conrods, looking good   

[steamer]

More turning and filing on the con rods.....

Willy

Oh I like that!   

[steam guy willy]

Thanks all and I was following the O J  Bertinat inptructions that he talked about the  Model Engineer quite a few years ago I have used the hardened steel filing buttons to prepare the curved ends of the small ends..

Willy

[steam guy willy]

I have made a mistake with the small ends position and angle by 3/32nda as all the dimensions are in Inch fractions so I will  Put in some steel plugs with silver solder and remark them and drill again in the correct place .... I have also modified the Emco lathes traverse handle that is quite small and very close to the main body. I have attached a large chunk of ally that is cross hatched and can now quickly traverse the saddle just by using my open outstretched hand pushing it backwards and forwards, this has speeded this up quite quickly!!

Willy

[Zephyrin]

nice progress with all these intricate parts, very complex built, this 3 cylinder engine!
as I see a Myford lathe in the workshop, I wonder why do are you using also this tiny Emco SL, other for fun of course !

[steam guy willy]

nice progress with all these intricate parts, very complex built, this 3 cylinder engine!
as I see a Myford lathe in the workshop, I wonder why do are you using also this tiny Emco SL, other for fun of cour

my Milford is in my cellar WKSP  and the Emco is in my Kitchen ?!!! where all my other small tools are .Where it is warmer !!!1 Thanks

Willy

[steam guy willy]

I am now repairing the small ends with silver soldered rods in place.. you can see how far out the original holes were and you can see the ring of the solder from the first attempt . the rods were filed down and the inner parts sawn-off then holes were drilled from each side with a pilot drill and then reamed to size the curved parts will be sawn and filed using the hardened steel buttons

Willy

[steam guy willy]

The first con rod has been filed to shape using the buttons unfitted to the cross head. the buttons are held in place and are free to revolve. this has benefited up by hand just using eyesight so is quite labour intensive ..

Willy

[steam guy willy]

The other con rods have benefited to shape and still more machining do on them. I have just bought this magnetic retrieval rod that has I light in the end ...to find all those nuts and bolts that I keep dropping !!

Willy