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Hello Group,
I've been coming to this site for a few weeks now and have left a few posts. Guess my manners went on vacation for awhile, but they're back so I'll introduce myself.
I'm 63 years old (almost 64), live in Cave Creek, AZ, and have an office job with DHL Express, probably just for a couple more years. I've done a lot of woodworking for the past 40 years. Started out making furniture and cabinets, then graduated to making telescopes in 1999. I've completed somewhere around 30 telescopes in the past 8 years and have sold all but 2 of them.
I've also been into metal working off and on for probably 30 years and pretty seriously for the past 15. Mostly model engines and shop tooling. I got into gunsmithing recently and completed an air rifle from scratch, except for the barrel. I've built one IC engine, a number of steam engines, a stirling engine that runs well, and 3 or 4 flame suckers, none of which ever worked satisfactorily. Sigh...
Now I'm back into model engines. My current project is a two cylinder, open column vertical engine based roughly on Randall Cox's Open Column 6 cylinder. The crank throws are 180 degrees apart so it will have a syncopated sound like the old John Deeres and Listers. I just started it a couple of weeks ago and so far have the frame mostly finished, the crankshaft finished, and the cast iron flywheels partly finished. This will be a good sized project with a 1" bore, 1.5" stroke, and two, 5" flywheels.
Looks like a great group here and I look forward to getting to know a few folks.
Chuck Fellows
Some of my projects are shown at my website...
http://www.cfellows.com
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I've been coming to this site for a few weeks now and have left a few posts. Guess my manners went on vacation for awhile, but they're back so I'll introduce myself.
I'm 63 years old (almost 64), live in Cave Creek, AZ, and have an office job with DHL Express, probably just for a couple more years. I've done a lot of woodworking for the past 40 years. Started out making furniture and cabinets, then graduated to making telescopes in 1999. I've completed somewhere around 30 telescopes in the past 8 years and have sold all but 2 of them.
I've also been into metal working off and on for probably 30 years and pretty seriously for the past 15. Mostly model engines and shop tooling. I got into gunsmithing recently and completed an air rifle from scratch, except for the barrel. I've built one IC engine, a number of steam engines, a stirling engine that runs well, and 3 or 4 flame suckers, none of which ever worked satisfactorily. Sigh...
Now I'm back into model engines. My current project is a two cylinder, open column vertical engine based roughly on Randall Cox's Open Column 6 cylinder. The crank throws are 180 degrees apart so it will have a syncopated sound like the old John Deeres and Listers. I just started it a couple of weeks ago and so far have the frame mostly finished, the crankshaft finished, and the cast iron flywheels partly finished. This will be a good sized project with a 1" bore, 1.5" stroke, and two, 5" flywheels.
Looks like a great group here and I look forward to getting to know a few folks.
Chuck Fellows
Some of my projects are shown at my website...
http://www.cfellows.com