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Chris's New Steering Engine
PaulR:
--- Quote from: crueby on June 17, 2025, 06:17:50 pm ---In the meantime, the shop elves were making up teams to use it as an air hockey table...
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That won't be a very even match - one of the poor dears is going to have burnt knees from that copper pipe (and a nasty surprise if the hose clip lets go :lolb:)!
crueby:
--- Quote from: PaulR on June 18, 2025, 11:30:30 am ---
--- Quote from: crueby on June 17, 2025, 06:17:50 pm ---In the meantime, the shop elves were making up teams to use it as an air hockey table...
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That won't be a very even match - one of the poor dears is going to have burnt knees from that copper pipe (and a nasty surprise if the hose clip lets go :lolb: )!
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And if the other player backs up he gets worm gear chewed!
crueby:
This morning got the gaskets made. The way I like to do them is to use the cover plate as a drill guide, and drill through the gasket material into a piece of wood with the clearance size drill. First drill a corner, put in a screw to keep it from slipping, another drill/screw in the opposite corner, then go around and drill the rest. Since the gassket material is flexible, it leaves a tight fitting hole around each screw.
Then put onto the steam chest, and trimmed around the outside with scissors and the inside with a fresh exacto blade.
Easy sequence, no punches needed. Then the valve face was lapped smooth on a diamond sharpening plate, first coarse side then fine side. Also made and installed the exhaust pipe into the flange on the bottom.
And the base was screwed down to the floor plate, here it is with the parts all set in place on top of it.
Next I'll make the manifolds that take the steam/exhaust passages from the control valve base out to the ports on top of the cylinder steam chest bases, then go back and make the control valve slider. At that point it should run with input from the steering wheel!
cnr6400:
:ThumbsUp: :ThumbsUp: :ThumbsUp: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: Looking great Chris!
One more item to add to your troubleshooting steps list, tuning up the system: 112A. Check for / Remove elf-size air hockey puck from valve cavity.... :Lol:
crueby:
--- Quote from: cnr6400 on June 18, 2025, 04:23:17 pm --- :ThumbsUp: :ThumbsUp: :ThumbsUp: :popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: Looking great Chris!
One more item to add to your troubleshooting steps list, tuning up the system: 112A. Check for / Remove elf-size air hockey puck from valve cavity.... :Lol:
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Check! I will NOT be removing the puck from the elf cavity... :paranoia:
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