Bond's "Simplex" Petrol Engine

[ths]

I'll join Lee and Rick in the jealousy seats, and no, I can't guess what you're making on the shaper.

Hugh.

[Jasonb]

This is comming along nicely, I would say you are making a fixture to hold the cylinder head so that the valve guides and seats can be machined in the lathe in the same way a sthis



J

[pgp001]

A bit too easy that one.

Here it is on various machining setups for the cylinder head.

















Phil

[steamer]

That tilt swivel tabel sure comes in handy.....one of the very few accessories I'm missing on the F1.   

Dave

[ths]

Phil, I take it that the milling machine is an Aciera. Is that an F3?

Hugh.

[pgp001]

Hi

The milling machine is an "Alexander Master toolmaker", it is the British version of a Deckel FP1.

It comes with loads of gadgets like slotting head, dividing head & high speed head etc.
There is not much you cannot do with it.

http://www.lathes.co.uk/alexander/index.html

My dad restored it before he died, and rigged it up as a Sunderland gear shaper for making Myford changewheels.







He was a bit of a gear boffin was my dad, I bet not many people could figure out a gear train like this.





Phil

[Bezalel]

Yeah! I recon the book of change wheel tables would weigh nearly as mutch as the gear set   

[pgp001]

Here's a few of the connecting rod.























More to follow in due course.
Phil

[sbwhart]

Some nice set up shots

Some nice machinery

Some great work

Keep them comming Phil

 


Stew

[steamer]

I like the rotary table set up!   Simple and effective!

Dave

[ScroungerLee]

Good pics, they make your process very easy to understand, thank you!

Lee

[pgp001]

Here is the job I have been looking forwards to least of all, the rockers.

I started with a couple of discs



Ball ended slot drill to make the pocket for the pushrod bucket.



Picking up the centre line with a laser centre finder.



A bit more shaping by milling out the undersides.



Almost there, just a bit more fine tuning with the file before fitting the ends



Ball turning tool set up for making the pushrod buckets, I used silver steel for those. (drill rod)



A bit closer in



After silver soldering all the bits together.



A trial asembly.



Al the other bits finished and assembled on the head.



Phil

[Bezalel]

Nice work Phil !!


Are the ends of the rockers hardened?


Or is the air cooling adequately quick, after silver soldering, to make them hard?
 
Bez

[gbritnell]

Excellent work on the head Phil. Great fabrication on the rocker arms.
gbritnell

[Jo]

You made that look nice and easy. I will give it a go on my R&B.

Jo