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Hi All! My daughters have taken an interest in my PMR#1 build, and one of them has come out to the shop a few times to see what I was up to. After letting her turn a few handles, I asked if she wanted to build an engine together, and of course she said yes.
I let her pick an engine out of Rudy Kouhoupt's "Working Steam Engines" book, and she liked the Open Column engine the most. It has taken a few weeks to get the time, but tonight we got a start.
In order to make some quick progress, we started with some of the 2D parts that would be suitable for cutting on the waterjet. I walked her through the process of creating the parts in SolidWorks, and generating the DXF files. Then we cut them on the machine. She is a bright kid, but even I was surprised at how fast she picked up the CAD program.
Here is a pic of the base plate, con-rod and cylinder flange that we made tonight. We are building two engines as we go along so there are two sets of parts. I feel a little bad about including Rudy's book in the photo, but I wanted everyone to see what the engine will look like. I tried to give credit to Rudy, and feel this is in the spirit of fair use, but if people disagree, I will remove the photo. (It is a crummy photo anyway )
I let her pick an engine out of Rudy Kouhoupt's "Working Steam Engines" book, and she liked the Open Column engine the most. It has taken a few weeks to get the time, but tonight we got a start.
In order to make some quick progress, we started with some of the 2D parts that would be suitable for cutting on the waterjet. I walked her through the process of creating the parts in SolidWorks, and generating the DXF files. Then we cut them on the machine. She is a bright kid, but even I was surprised at how fast she picked up the CAD program.
Here is a pic of the base plate, con-rod and cylinder flange that we made tonight. We are building two engines as we go along so there are two sets of parts. I feel a little bad about including Rudy's book in the photo, but I wanted everyone to see what the engine will look like. I tried to give credit to Rudy, and feel this is in the spirit of fair use, but if people disagree, I will remove the photo. (It is a crummy photo anyway )