Recent content by b7100

Mem has his email as .net - not .com

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Thanks for the information. I have emailled him and I will get on the MEM forum.

I havn't read all the posts but one mentioned an advance/rumley lathe at a museum. Not sure if it had been mentioned but Allis Chalmers bought out Advance Rumley so the lathe mentioned may very well have been Allis Chalmers. Once a great company has been sold off bit by bit.

Site requires password/registration thruogh taptalk. I can't seem to navigate to get on that site and post. I'm interested in a set of castings for the lane and bodley corless engine he had listed on his website.

Does anyone know if casting sets from downriver tools are still availiable?

I have just completed a Breisch duplex pump. pump. It runs and pumps fine on air. However on steam it doesn't run. Steam just goes right through. I have lapped the slide valve in and used vitron o rings backed with teflon for piston rings. How can I tell if it is leaking past the valve or rings...

Gus I have come to the same conclusion on diy gear cutters. I have a ball turner but the hassle of setting it up to get the right radius and then not knowing how well it would work in cutting such a large radius on the cutter blank. Then heat treating it. Then after all that not knowing...

I recently purchased Ivan Law's book on gear cutting. In making the button tool to form the gear cutter he shows a table that lists the various dimensions for the button tool that forms the different gear cutters. I have a bull gear on a 1/3 scale steam engines that specifies a 16" pitch...

I'm referring to what you used to expand and crimp the ends of the flues with. Did you make the flue roller/expandor? Could you post pictures of that and the crimping tool you made.

Can you describe or show pictures of how you rolled the tubes and the tube roller you made