A small steam engine
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vlmarshall
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Ah, man, that's too bad. Is there no way to desolder and reuse the base and threaded bits of tubing?
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Very sorry.
Let it be me. Spare the good ones.
Maryak said:
Let it be me. Spare the good ones.
Hi
Thankyou gentlemen. Its not the first time a piece has gone bad and I dare say it won't be the last but it doe's hurt a little. I did de solder but the parts look terrible. Much better to start again I think and this time polish by hand. I still have the lid of course.
Cheers
Rich
Thankyou gentlemen. Its not the first time a piece has gone bad and I dare say it won't be the last but it doe's hurt a little. I did de solder but the parts look terrible. Much better to start again I think and this time polish by hand. I still have the lid of course.
Cheers
Rich
Oh bloody Hell Rich! That is a bunch of s**t! :toilet: Man oh man, does that make me cringe. It has happened to all of us at one time or another and that feeling is not pleasant at all. It was looking so good too. 
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ChooChooMike
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Serious OUCH on that one Rich !
Love your continued documentation, words, pictures, keep it up. You have no idea how much your work is influencing and motivating the rest of us !!
Tossed a Karma point your way for all the work you do !
Mike
Love your continued documentation, words, pictures, keep it up. You have no idea how much your work is influencing and motivating the rest of us !!
Tossed a Karma point your way for all the work you do !
Mike
Hi
Got the new separator made. Identical to the first but I used 1/4 X 40 brass stud in this one purely because I had a bit already made left over from another job.
Here it is along side whats left of the first one and not polished yet. It won't be going anywhere near the buffing wheel!!!!!!
I have rigged up the pump onto the boiler to test the water guage. The glass has been fitted with a couple of 'O' rings. The nuts being tightened by hand. The pressure guage is mounted in the top water guage connector. No special reason why I did it that way other than I had an adapter ready made. I pumped it up to 40psi and it held the pressure ok. The only tiny leak coming from the adapter that the pressure guage screws on to. Thats not a problem as the water guage connector will have a bung in the top.
Cheers
Rich
Got the new separator made. Identical to the first but I used 1/4 X 40 brass stud in this one purely because I had a bit already made left over from another job.
Here it is along side whats left of the first one and not polished yet. It won't be going anywhere near the buffing wheel!!!!!!
I have rigged up the pump onto the boiler to test the water guage. The glass has been fitted with a couple of 'O' rings. The nuts being tightened by hand. The pressure guage is mounted in the top water guage connector. No special reason why I did it that way other than I had an adapter ready made. I pumped it up to 40psi and it held the pressure ok. The only tiny leak coming from the adapter that the pressure guage screws on to. Thats not a problem as the water guage connector will have a bung in the top.
Cheers
Rich
Hi
The steam from the exhaust will be fed back into the funnel so I had to make a connector that will screw into the engine frame to accept a 3/32 pipe nut.
One end of the connector has been turned and threaded and parted off. Here it is screwed into a piece of steel ready to have the other end machined.
Heres the finished part with a drawing.
The frame is drilled and tapped.
The connector screwed into the frame.
The end that screws into the frame, that is shown as 3/16 on the drawing, I had to reduce to 5/32 to be a comfortable fit.
Heres a couple of photos of the main parts so far.
Cheers
Rich
The steam from the exhaust will be fed back into the funnel so I had to make a connector that will screw into the engine frame to accept a 3/32 pipe nut.
One end of the connector has been turned and threaded and parted off. Here it is screwed into a piece of steel ready to have the other end machined.
Heres the finished part with a drawing.
The frame is drilled and tapped.
The connector screwed into the frame.
The end that screws into the frame, that is shown as 3/16 on the drawing, I had to reduce to 5/32 to be a comfortable fit.
Heres a couple of photos of the main parts so far.
Cheers
Rich
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Geez, that's awesome. You guys are making me, with my Cracker project, feel like an amateur... or a caveman. :bow: ;D
